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Article #322Re: Dial-up Modem Speed of 56 Mbps? - Can't believe anyone took this seriously...
From: Noozer
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 15:15
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 15:15
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>>>> 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? >>> 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.) They were capable of 56k, given perfect conditions. >>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. But you couldn't use BOTH streams to double the speed of a single download. > 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 ... Actually, I've got a dual WAN router here and two cable modems. Still, my fastest download for a single file is only 7mBit (the speed of one connection).
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