binding 2 connections....

[A-guy 0]

Hi Im getting free dsl next month and I would like to bind it with my cable modem so they are like one modem in win2k. Kind of like a load sharing thing. Anybody got any ideas on how to do that? They dsl will probobly be a static ip # but the cable modem is dhcp.

[Palos 0]

I suppose you got the meaning of "binding" kinda wrong...what binding really does, it "binds" a protocol to an adapter, that is, that adapter (LAN card for example) uses the protocols that are binded to it in a specific order. When you want to access the network, it looks at the binded protocols and uses them starting with the topmost (higher priority).

What you probably want, is to use another protocol which uses 2 or more adapters for the same physical connection (i think it's called Multilink or something). That allows you to use 2 modems for example, each at 56k (for example) for a SINGLE connection of 112K in total. But remember, the speed is limited by the media that you are using...

[A-guy 0]

Thanks for the reply. Yeah I didnt mean bind in a technical sense like binding tcp-ip to my nic I meant it in a literal since like tie together as one. Ive been searching around reading up on the multilink protocal and it seems to only be for dial up or ppp connections. Its pretty cool because it actually doubles the bandwidth. I will be totally happy if I could do this with dsl and cable. Please more Ideas. Im back to the search engines.

[Feral 0]

I think he means "binding" in a sense that you bind 2 modems together. Thats something Microsoft doesnt support.. With cable modems and adsl adapters.. Currently that can only be done using 2 modems. And 3rd party software that binds 2 nic cards together for more thoughput.

 

I think you may be asking for a little too much in binding those 2 technologies toghether... \

 

 

But who knows.. there could be some super programmer out there who is making the capability as we speak... ummm chat... l

 

 

 

 

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[Jabba 0]

My setup right now is I have a hub with my cablemodem and 3 computers plugged into it.

I was always under the impression that if I simply plugged another cablemodem into the hub using a cross connect cable, I'd have 2x the bandwidth.. Maybe I'm just dreaming. I suppose one of the two modems would become the default and the other would never get used, or worse and more likely, it wouldn't work at all. I've heared people say they have "Cable x 2" connections, so it's likely there's some way to do it.

 

[This message has been edited by Jabba (edited 10 March 2000).]

[Palos 0]

True, M$'s m-link protocol is for modems only (for now)...i'm not too familiar with DSL/ADSL, since it's not that big here in Europe yet...we're mostly on ISDN (do you guys remember this one?? )