Re: Multilink PPP and Pots
Gary N McKinney (gmckinney@megabits.net)
Wed, 28 May 1997 13:52:40 -0400
Brian Elfert wrote:
>
> On Tue, 27 May 1997, Gary McKinney wrote:
>
> > We are doing it with hardware. We have been beta testing a new modem which
> > uses two POTS (standard voice-grade) phone lines and will send data
> > Bi-Directional at 57.6 to 67.2 K-bits/sec reliably (and it is FAST). The
> > modem does not rely on a Portmaster / Linux combination to achieve this
> > feat. If there is interest in this drop me an e-mail and I can give you
> > more info on the modems and where they can be obtained.
>
> Isn't this the new Transcend 67K modem?
>
> This does require two phone lines. All it is really is two 33.6 modems
> connected to a single serial port.
>
> It's fairly expensive. I heard it was $600.
>
> > One other thing - don't mention this to the telcos <wink> as they are NOT
> > going to like this!
>
> Why not? They can sell a second phone line to everyone who buys one of
> these modems.
>
> These modems are still regular 33.6 modems, so they'll still have the
> problems of not getting full 33.6 connects, and the latency will still be
> high.
>
> Folks who need the guarantee of 64K or need low latency will still buy
> ISDN.
>
> Brian
Yes and No ... <grin> ... Checkout the following link:
http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayStory.pl?970527.etranscend.htm
There is a writeup and links to more info...
Gary...