Multilink, Modem Bonding (2 modems to increase dialup connection bandwidth)

[RB]

Thanks in advance for reading this, and hopefully your
help...

I have posted 2 items to these newsgroups and have yet to
get a reply, hopefully this will be differrent...

I HAVE NO HIGH SPEED CONNECTIONS AVAILABLE IN MY
NEIGHBORHOOD so I have been stuck with 28Kbps to 32Kbps
for my dial up connection! Terrible, isn't it? Well I
just recently found out about Multilink, Modem Bonding (2
modems to increase dialup connection bandwidth) and I have
been elated with the results. I have 2 modems working
just fine (I guess my modems were compatible because it
was a cinch to get working).

QUESTION: *I read somewhere that if a person has 2 or
more dial up connections on 2 seperate modems functioning,
that if one of the phone lines receives an incoming call,
that the modem would disconnect, so that the phone call
could be answered. Is this true?

I really need this, because 2 phone lines is all i have at
my residence and so therefore I need to have the
opportunity to still receive phone calls, even while i'm
on the Internet (which is most all the time when I'm
home).

How do I set this up to get the modem to disconnect the
call and let the person trying to call me get their call
through so I can answer it?

The only article I have seen is:
http://www.56k.com/reports/bonding.shtml which states:
"When the additional bandwidth isn't needed, the second
line is dropped. If you have call waiting, the Voice
Priority feature will drop one line to allow the incoming
call to ring through. " This would be a relief, but can
SOMEONE TELL ME HOW TO MAKE THIS WORK?

Thanks! RB

 

[Paul Russell]

If your line has call waiting you will 9 times out of 10 have your data call
disrupted (aka. disconnection). This is why you disable call waiting before
you call your ISP. This should also be the behavior of multilink protocol
sessions as well.

There are some modems which can share the line with voice sessions and when
an incoming call comes in they notify the user, AOL has such a service.
Telephone companies offer special services to ensure voice and data calls
can simultaneously intermingle when there is data