Three weeks today

[Dearnla]

can you join a load of 3G dongles together to increase bandwidth?? stick one in every spare USB portand see if it works!!

(never tried this, would it work??)

What, on the same principle as having triplets should only take three months of pregnancy?

You're not very technical, are you?

[Bunk]

What, on the same principle as having triplets should only take three months of pregnancy?

You're not very technical, are you?

Are you?

I remember reading about people combining two broadband lines to increase internet speed so I don't see why this couldn't work. The bottleneck is the dongle's download speed so having two working in parallel could well improve download speed. The only problem I can see is that you would probably need some extra software to coordinate it.

[GeorgeB]

Isnt this how ISDN worked?

[Joeman]

What, on the same principle as having triplets should only take three months of pregnancy?

You're not very technical, are you?

A better child birth anology, would be like one woman having tripplets compared to three women having a single child each - the 'bandwidth restriction' of a woman giving birth does not change with the number of kids she is having.

So, tell me oh technical, 3G Dongle Master, Is it totally out of the question to route different types of traffic through different dongles?? or to load balance all traffic accross a number of dongles?? Lets see if you can provide a Techincal (non-childbirth related) reason why this is not feasible, given that people have been doing similar with multiple phone lines for many years...

[Sysman]

Have you ever tried calling BT?

"You can call on our local rate number / toll free number"
"Can you please give me a number I can call from abroad"
"You can call on our local rate number / toll free number"

loop ad infinitum

[Joeman]

Isnt this how ISDN worked?

yep, i used to get 64k from one line and still be able to use the phone for voice, or if i paired the two lines together, i would lose voice calls, but get a 128k bandwidth.... But I shall leave it to our resident technical guru, "Dearnla the Dongle master" to explain why this isnt possible with modern technology like a 3G dongle, as he's made it quite clear that im far too un-technical to comment on such things.

[d000hg]

Are you?

I remember reading about people combining two broadband lines to increase internet speed

Isn't the point that the ISP knows you're doing this, both lines are from the same ISP, allowing them to make it work?

[Joeman]

Isn't the point that the ISP knows you're doing this, both lines are from the same ISP, allowing them to make it work?

Each dongle is basically just another network connection, so if you could figure out some form of load balancing (variant of PPP Multilink maybe??), i see no reason why this wouldnt work (unless there is some hard limitation to the number of dogles you can have on one PC)

Worst case you need some for of proxy server setup somewhere out in the cloud, to break the data up into chunks and send it back to you over each of the connections... bit like BitTorrent maybe..

I'm sure our techincal expert Dearnla will have this knocked together for us in a few minutes..

[GeorgeB]

Worst case you need some for of proxy server setup somewhere out in the cloud, to break the data up into chunks and send it back to you over each of the connections... bit like BitTorrent maybe..

Not so bad then... you cant work very well but you can still download your daily films (not that I condone that sort of thing hehe)

[Joeman]

Not so bad then... you cant work very well but you can still download your daily films (not that I condone that sort of thing hehe)

Yep, im sure it would be farly easy to configure BitTorrent over loads of 3G dongles, so no loss of movies