how to connect 2 modems at the same time

babyoche · Post by **babyoche** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 8:45 pm

is there a way to connect 2 cable modems a the same time, what do I need? how do I do it, yes I like to download heavy stuff like high def videos.

mccoffee · Post by **mccoffee** » Thu Feb 23, 2006 12:55 am

you need a dual wan port router

babyoche · Post by **babyoche** » Thu Feb 23, 2006 9:17 am

thx, on my way to circuit city

buckifan · Post by **buckifan** » Thu Feb 23, 2006 10:50 am

Just be advised, you cannot double the speed of a single download by using two modems.

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Thu Feb 23, 2006 4:52 pm

buckifan wrote:Just be advised, you cannot double the speed of a single download by using two modems.

LOL yeah he will find out.. and doubled cable cost too. better to just up the package if they offer it.

babyoche · Post by **babyoche** » Sat Feb 25, 2006 10:55 pm

I work for a cable company, cablevision, so I get the modems free of charge, the point is if I can download a movie faster by combining 2 modems a the same time if I use a news reader to download a movie, with 1 modem I take about 90 minutes to download a full dvd, and I would like to find out if I can speed up my download with 2 modems,

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Sun Feb 26, 2006 10:27 am

you just need to up your package with the single modem... you can't just hook two of them up to the same computer and expect a double speed jump.

dazzaf · Post by **dazzaf** » Mon Feb 27, 2006 11:44 am

babyoche wrote:I work for a cable company, cablevision, so I get the modems free of charge, the point is if I can download a movie faster by combining 2 modems a the same time if I use a news reader to download a movie, with 1 modem I take about 90 minutes to download a full dvd, and I would like to find out if I can speed up my download with 2 modems,

sorry if this sounds rude mate...

but you work for a cable company and you are asking a silly question like that lol

you have cheered up a very bad day for me thankyou

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Mon Feb 27, 2006 6:19 pm

dazzaf wrote:sorry if this sounds rude mate...

but you work for a cable company and you are asking a silly question like that lol

you have cheered up a very bad day for me thankyou

babyoche · Post by **babyoche** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 8:26 pm

as u can c, cablevision doesn't have expert doing this, that is why I ask.
some one told me that putting 2 modems together will get a fraction of T1, and that is why I'll like to use 2 at the same time

tradewiz50 · Post by **tradewiz50** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 11:21 pm

babyoche wrote:as u can c, cablevision doesn't have expert doing this, that is why I ask.
some one told me that putting 2 modems together will get a fraction of T1, and that is why I'll like to use 2 at the same time

If you want to pay for SDSL than go for it. We have 3Mbps up/down at work for the price of a full T-1.

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Wed Mar 01, 2006 2:16 am

A T1 connection is good at which mostly for upload speeds and thats insync with the download which is good for latency.... if you want top download speeds cable seems to have the most other than a T3 or more which are usually at university's or colleges.

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Wed Mar 01, 2006 7:37 am

babyoche wrote:as u can c, cablevision doesn't have expert doing this, that is why I ask.
some one told me that putting 2 modems together will get a fraction of T1, and that is why I'll like to use 2 at the same time

A full T-1 is almost 1.5 megs, symmetrical. So even 1x cable connection should match that, if not double/triple it or higher, as far as download rates.

Upload is another matter.

But...for putting 2x broadband modems together...lets say your cable connection is 3 megs down. Putting 2x cable modems together, with a device like a dual WAN port router, will not yield you 6x megs down. You will get a "load balancing" setup. Meaning...if you have enough computers, you can fill both pipes at the same time with 3x megs worth of bandwidth each...but you don't get the rates of 6x megs. Yet...you get the equivelant of 6x megs of traffic throughput. If you have enough computers to push it. It's a solution for a larger network of many workstations. Using just one or two workstations...you can't really benefit from it. I ran both cable and DSL for a month on my router at home...but couldn't really push it to utilize it....just did it for testing a dual WAN port router.

http://www.speedguide.net/~brian/dualwan1.JPG

Plus...your ISP has to give you an additional IP address, on your account. You can't just go thinking that since you snagged a second modem...that you can plug it in and have it working.

Lefty · Post by **Lefty** » Wed Mar 01, 2006 11:04 am

dazzaf wrote:sorry if this sounds rude mate...

but you work for a cable company and you are asking a silly question like that lol

you have cheered up a very bad day for me thankyou

I'm sorry for laughing, but that was very funny.

babyoche · Post by **babyoche** » Wed Mar 01, 2006 4:46 pm

thx YeOldeStonecat, that was the answer that I was looking 4, each modem that I have all 3 have different ip. they're useless for me then I'll use one for my voip and 1 for my router, thx for the fine explanation.

cyberskye · Post by **cyberskye** » Wed Mar 01, 2006 7:17 pm

babyoche wrote:as u can c, cablevision doesn't have expert doing this, that is why I ask.
some one told me that putting 2 modems together will get a fraction of T1, and that is why I'll like to use 2 at the same time

BTW - T1 speeds are easy to find cheaper via dsl. The reason most peeps go with T1 (or fractional T1) is the uptime usually 99.9+. It's a mature and reliable technology - different from cable and dsl.

I have been to companies that split each channel (you get 24) out of a T1 to use it for voice lines (not VoIP). Poor man's pbx...