[H-GEN] Multilinked modem options
Charles Thornhill-Cole
charles at bigbridge.com.au
Sun Dec 3 21:58:34 EST 2000
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----- Original Message -----
From: "David Jericho" <davidj at webmatchit.com.au>
To: <general at lists.humbug.org.au>
Sent: Friday, December 01, 2000 12:57 PM
Subject: Re: [H-GEN] Multilinked modem options
>
> You could potentially cheat your way out of it by buying two 64k ISDN
cards that
> support v.90 modems, and then set things up to multilink the lines.
Any suggestions for where to source such cards? (ones that play nice with
Linux, obviously)
What would such a beastie be called?
>
> Call into the ISDN via one analogue phone line, and let the other end call
into
> your ISDN.
>
> That way you get 56k in both directions, plus the left over 33.6, all for
the cost of
> two local calls.
>
> 89.6kbit/s potential bandwidth, better than a kick in the face.
>
> Just to make sure, as I know my descriptions be can sometimes bad ;)
Arrows point
> direction of call.
>
> --------- ---------
> | | Analogue -> ISDN | |
> | PC1 | | PC2 |
> | | ISDN <- Analogue | |
> --------- ---------
Perfectly clear. Thanks.
Charles
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