Using 2 fones 2 surf

[ginggs]

Don't know if windows has the ability to bypass requesting the ip first, java has.

Nope, Windows' implementation of sockets is the same as Linux, you need to call a function to resolve the IP address. First it looks in your 'hosts' file, failing that it checks your DNS cache, failing that it sends a DNS query and finally, if all else has failed, it broadcasts on the local subnet.

Still a bit confused by the multi-link thing. Saw an option in my PPP settings which says "Negotiate multi-link for single link connections". Now this sounds to me like making a single connection look like two or more which is exactly the opposite of what we are talking about

Yup, to get Multitlink as I understand it, when you create your new dial-up connection, you choose more than one of the available modems you are presented with.

Btw. I would think that multi-link should also be possible if the server is running on Linux like a lot of them are as it is open source.

So far, I haven't come across one ISP that supports Multilink, the company I work for provided a Multilink solution for a number of our clients using multiple analogue leased-lines aggregated for speed and redundancy, which ended up being cheaper and offered a whole lot more bandwidth (due to data compression) than Telkom's competing Diginet technology.

 

[nebulous]

Thanks for all the info here.

One question:
Will multilink work with any of the cell providers?
From what I understand, the answer is no.
Is this true?

 

[Manifesto]

check out this link .. if you wait for this release it may be what you need... Raid for internet connections http://josh.com/teepipe/index.htm

 

[WireFree]

Guys,

Connecting to the Internet with 2 phones will not give you faster Internet access. If you are using 2 Cell C (or Virgin) SIMs, both phones will use the same base station and your access bandwidth will be shared by the 2 phones. In this case you might as well just use one cellphone. For the best speed results on Cell C use a phone that supports EDGE class 12 or a modem like the Advinne EDGE USB modem.

If you can get both phones to use a different base station, e.g. one Cell C base station and one Vodacom base station you may get better results. You may also need to load balance your traffic on a TCP connection basis (and not at IP packet level).

WireFree

 

[Prometheus]

I would agree with you except that the total bandwidth available is more than that of a single device. On quiet towers you will get double your bandwidth especially for multiple small files and on busy towers you would at least get a larger share of the bandwidth. I have also formed a visual picture of signals as the device seem to use different towers for different areas in the same room where sometimes it's a difference of mere centimeters so they may well use different towers a lot of the time.