Modem Bonding in XP Pro

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Ok heres what I can do. I can log 2 seperate PC's at home
on 2 seperate phone lines onto 1 ISP user account at the
same time. I can also logon 2 seperate internet sessions
on my PC at the same time but they have to be made
individually but its just 2 56k connections. So its
useless that way. I talked to my ISP tech support and
they said that if I could have 2 pc's or 2 sessions
online at the same time with 1 user account then I should
be able to modem bond for 112k (110k by FCC) but I cant
get it to work and if I dial both modems at the same time
when 1 connection fails I lose the other. Any help would
be greatly appreciated.
 
JMcGhee said:
Ok heres what I can do. I can log 2 seperate PC's at home
on 2 seperate phone lines onto 1 ISP user account at the
same time. I can also logon 2 seperate internet sessions
on my PC at the same time but they have to be made
individually but its just 2 56k connections. So its
useless that way. I talked to my ISP tech support and
they said that if I could have 2 pc's or 2 sessions
online at the same time with 1 user account then I should
be able to modem bond for 112k (110k by FCC) but I cant
get it to work and if I dial both modems at the same time
when 1 connection fails I lose the other. Any help would
be greatly appreciated.
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This depends partly on the modems; they have to both support this and
preferably be identical, down to firmware revisions. It's sometimes called
Multi-Link or Shotgun. Multi-link has to be supported by the modems, the
connections have to have it enabled, and the ISP has to support it. In XP,
supoport is automatic and you may be able to get by with
non-multi-link-specific modems.

This page is the XP technote on the topic:

http://tinyurl.com/sq4g

which should resolve to:
http://support.microsoft.com/defaul...port/kb/articles/q307/8/49.asp&NoWebContent=1
 
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