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"Noozer" <dont.spam@me.here> wrote in message 
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> "thanatoid" <waiting@the.exit.invalid> wrote in message 
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>> Radium <glucegen1@gmail.com> wrote in
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>>> Hi:
>>>
>>> Is it possible to obtain a 56 Mbps connection using 1,000
>>> dial-modems with a 1,000 different telephone ports and
>>> numbers?
>>>
>>> Each line gives a max of 56 Kbps, so if 1,000 are used,
>>> could this give a max of 56 Mbps?
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Radium
>>>
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>> Can't believe anyone took this question seriously. Even *I* can
>> tell the guy is a fucking troll.
>
> And what's worse, someone giving a reasonable response to a stupid 
> question, or someone who just likes to bitch?
>
> ...and 56k modems were regulated to 53k.

even if they weren't regulated, signal to noise and bandwidth limits the 
speed.  (Shannon theorem.)

>Also, There is no easy way to amalgamate all the connections into a single 
>stream. Just put two 100mbit network cards in a PC. It won't let you 
>download at 200mbit. It will let you have two 100mbit streams though.
>

i think the bonding and multilink PPP techniques require the help of the 
ISP.  you should be able to use a load balancer with 2 DSL lines fairly 
easily.

there are downloader programs that use threading and mirrors (like 
Getright).

multilink or load balancing 56k would only make sense somewhere that had no 
DSL, no cable, no satellite ...