hi gurus

i need your help. i have 2 modem devices which are connected on 2 serial ports on same computer. now i dial in to my service provider through both modems but when i run / browse anything only 1 modem is used.

i thought having 2 modems will double the speed but this is not happening, do any one know how to do that in windows ?

i know about the router, which can do this but i have some kind of gprs mobile device which needs software installation and router will not support it.

any help will be highly appreciated.

thanks in advance for any help or suggestions.

info: i am running win2k pro.

Geez Mahinder, you're begging for trouble here; what may seem like a trivial trick can turn out to be hell.If you want to have twice the speed, you need to have ethernet bonding, that's the best solution possible. However I have no idea whether this can be achieved on Windows. Furthermore, you need your ISP to support it.
If you try with just a regular off-the-shelf config, you'll end up with tremendous routing issues:
let's pretend that you can force Win2k to manage 2 default routes with a perfect round-robin. Well, no, let's not pretend that. I'm quite sure it cannot be achieved :cartman:

Now, I'm not a Windows expert. Hopefully somebody will replyto my post something like "Eh, danderhead, ever heard of [your solution here]"...;)

you need to set up line bonding, its a painfull task and you need two ISP accounts and two phone lines so it may well be cheaper to go with a DSL line ?

This could be of use to you http://www.56k.com/reports/bonding.shtml

Originally posted by Orc
you need to set up line bonding, its a painfull task and you need two ISP accounts and two phone lines so it may well be cheaper to go with a DSL line ?

This could be of use to you http://www.56k.com/reports/bonding.shtml

thanks guys.

the DSL in my current office area is not available and at present we use ISDN connections and GPRS mobile handsets so i was thinking about doubling the capacity of connections. ;)

i gone through this article and from what i understand, this is not possible. It refers to some kind of bonding protocol / technology which i think should be supported by my isp and hardware, which is not possible here. So my overall imagination may not work.

May be some one knows solutions to this. :(

Well,
apparently there's some new wireless offers that may do the trick.
It requires you to buy (or lease?) a dish and there may be a lag, but you can theorically achieve the level of performance of a T1 at a fraction of the cost...

-Chris.