Dual Modems

[Kudose]

How would I go about hooking both of my cable modems to one computer. I believe that I just need two NICs and two modems and hook them up and the rest will take care of its self. But I would like to be sure before I go and pick up another modem from my work. Thanks.

[SensualSandwich]

If your on a windows box which is 98 or better you will want to use the modem binding feature in the connection properties. Please be aware that binding two modems is simply doing load balancing.

[Tracer]

Im not entirely sure why you would want to do this. Having two IP's?

All this would do is increaser your inbound bandwidth. And in wondows all I can see are loads of problems in the outbound TCP stack. How would it determine Which connection (which IP) to send the outband data on?

You could do this much simpler with a little router.

[Kudose]

What I am doing is:

I work for a cable company, so I can have 2 cable modems hookedup without getting into legal trouble. I am hooking them both up with NICs, using one IP adress doubline my download/upload bandwidth to 6MB/s instead fo the regualar 3MB/s allowance. I think I have it all worked out now though. I see to be downloading from a bandwidth test site @ 520kb/s instead of the 212kb/s I was getting prior to the dual modem installation. Thanks though.

[SensualSandwich]

It still isn't theoretically doubling your connection, just doing load balancing. Keep that in mind.

[Kudose]

I see.

[Tracer]

downloads aren't the problem......it will be uploads where you run into a problem without having some sort of mechanism for combining the bandwidth of the two sepearte MAC addresses from the modems into one 🙂 You need some sort of cheep router to make this really work correctly.