Centurion
01-29-2003, 9:29 AM
As you may not know - in the Canadian hinterland - there lives the compu ogur - he is surrounded by miles of telephone lines goin no where in particular - When connected to a certain network - at a certain location - he traces 40 miles to his isp. But when moved 10 miles down the road - he traces - a 250 mile round trip to the same isp. and then starts out to Toronto for the hop down to the USA. Compu ogurs can be identified by thier grunts and blinking eyed twiches when watchin 4 channel TV and finding thier local phone company offering high speed adsl for mear pitance a month - while when called thier techs admit that they cannot even service the customers they have now. Compu ogurs really start gettin goin, and requires medication, when cable companies offer cable modems for even less, and have fiber optic running less than 2 miles away - but don't want anyone to know - cause then the rural areas would have better service.
[off rant]
I was reading along smokin's post [http://www.xtremepccentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=3067]
and thinking about running two independant unlimited isp's but hook them together under the mlppp.
In this neck of the woods - no one will even mention mppp as a solution to poor 56 speeds. And the penalty for trying it is worse than AOL 1.0 from a 1000 miles away "local service number". $4/hour.
The idea is to have two hard modems in one machine - run it as a mlppp and send it out to 2 different isp's. on unlimited budgets.
I just saw Bills post about the liny box heading the whole thing - But was wondering if in principle - this idea would work -
Reality bites and I might only hit 56k real speed - but I have had it with tryin to tweak the bejebezzes out of a connection which will never give me page downloads of more than 2 minutes a page[or less]. And the implications of getting the local kids involved in a preemptive upgrade to the phone system here - due to its, uh uh , [read something you don't want to know but is probably pyrotechnical in nature]
{ps - I'll probably have to edit this as I may have lost the intent - but hope you can see the humour at pokin funny at the bad connections we get up here}
Pps - I have gone through W98/NT/W2k/XP dial up connections looking for new ways to get better stuff - but the problem is the connections at the phone company side.
Thank you for readin along - "the compu ogur"
Centurion
[off rant]
I was reading along smokin's post [http://www.xtremepccentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=3067]
and thinking about running two independant unlimited isp's but hook them together under the mlppp.
In this neck of the woods - no one will even mention mppp as a solution to poor 56 speeds. And the penalty for trying it is worse than AOL 1.0 from a 1000 miles away "local service number". $4/hour.
The idea is to have two hard modems in one machine - run it as a mlppp and send it out to 2 different isp's. on unlimited budgets.
I just saw Bills post about the liny box heading the whole thing - But was wondering if in principle - this idea would work -
Reality bites and I might only hit 56k real speed - but I have had it with tryin to tweak the bejebezzes out of a connection which will never give me page downloads of more than 2 minutes a page[or less]. And the implications of getting the local kids involved in a preemptive upgrade to the phone system here - due to its, uh uh , [read something you don't want to know but is probably pyrotechnical in nature]
{ps - I'll probably have to edit this as I may have lost the intent - but hope you can see the humour at pokin funny at the bad connections we get up here}
Pps - I have gone through W98/NT/W2k/XP dial up connections looking for new ways to get better stuff - but the problem is the connections at the phone company side.
Thank you for readin along - "the compu ogur"
Centurion