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Re: Dial-up Modem Speed of 56 Mbps? - Can't believe anyone took this seriously...

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From: Jon Danniken
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 16:12

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"thanatoid" wrote:
>
> This link does not provide EXAMPLES but appears to claim it to
> be possible - albeit troublesome to put it mildly. (In fact I
> doubt it HAS been done, certainly not with a THOUSAND modems.)
>
> http://rescomp.stanford.edu/~cheshire/rants/Latency.html

There used to be something called "shotgunning modems", where you would use 
two modems on two different phone lines in the same box to double your d/l 
speed.  It was pretty picky though, IIRC.

Jon

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