Hello Nightfox!

** On Thursday 15.07.21 - 09:12, Nightfox wrote to Warpslide:

I also remember Windows 9x (I believe) having a feature
where you could dial into your ISP with 2 modems at the
same time for theoretically double the speed. Naturally,
it required 2 phone lines. At the time, we had a second
phone line which I used for the internet, but one time I
briefly also used our main phone line to try dialing into
my ISP with 2 modems, and it did seem a bit faster.

I did exactly that (I had the luxury of 4 phone lines as I was
building my mail-only BBS system as the time) ..but I only had
two operating modems. I don't remember the details, but I did
this with OS/2 (and its built-in Windows), and later with
WinME.

The ability to do that didn't last too long as ISPs eventually
clamped down on dual logins.

The overall speed was pretty good compared to just one lone
33.6Kbps connection at best. But I also remember issues when
one of the lines would develop noise or loss of quality - it
would stall the data transfer on the "good" line. Eventually,
I opted to just one line and "get 'er done" instead of risking
a stalled session as the modems were readjusting speeds or
something. And then eventually I couldn't even opt to do it if
I wanted to when the ISP "detected user already logged in" or
something and refused a simultaneous connection.


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