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I just upgraded to a DOCSIS RCA Cable modem with AT&T @****, I enjoy my great (for now) ping <--sub100's for online gaming; However I also like to listen to Internet Radio.. have ICQ, mIRC and voice over IP running, I am familiar with purchacing a second IP number for networking ( my girlfriend has a computer next to mine)Here is the Question! wait for it.. wait If I purchace a second IP# do they Up the Bandwidth On my line? i mean do they REALLY?? I'm seriously thinking about installing another Line and modem, 1 line for gaming, one for the other stuff. Also if I get 2 lines I can fatr around with 'shotguning' the 2 togerther see if i can get 1 smoking Connect!!
my box's are both 1.2 t-birds win2kpro 512K.. etc
Thanx in advance.

They don't up the band worth if you purchase a seconed Ip. Shotgunning to gather will not work either. Your best bet would be to get a router and use one ip. This way your bandworth will be shared equally. In order for her to have the same speed you would have to order another acount for her. The only thing I ever heard of was hooking two modems to one computer. But you need software for that and it is more expensive. Then a extra acount combine with yours.So your best bet would be to go the router way. Much cheaper in the long run.

[ 04-07-2001: Message edited by: Storm90 ]

Well i'm not with @home but i have 2 cable modems
1 upstairs and 1 downstairs
At first i believe my connection with both modems were shared cuz my upload cap is at 1 mbits/sec
So i did a test of sending a file to each other
So i started the 1st send and it was going at 100KBytes++ , went downstairs and started the other one and immediatly both uploads dropped to like 50 KBytes++
But now is a different story, i guess my provider decided to give each their own connection cuz when i do the test now both send at 100KBytes+++ and both can be downloading at 800KBytes+
Btw my provider is OOL

Are you paying for a seconed acount. If not you are still shareing the same acount. which has just devided the speed equally. Can you emagine how fast one would go by it self. Just guessing!

Yes i'am paying $20 more a month
No we are not shared cuz my upload is capped at 1mbits/sec and if we we shared then when i send a file to each other it would cut the upload in half and not still go at 100KBytes+ each

Well I have to use a router/hub anyway if I pay the $4.95 extra per mth for a second IP address for my G/f's Box (<--teehee sound's nasty) rather I use a router/hub to connect 2 computers to the net at the same time is not the point (@home wants you to pay per connection, they call it theft if you connect multiple conputers on 1 line/IP) and I've heard of ppl using 2 NIC cards w/ 2 cable/xDSL connects getting blazing speed. anyone with hand's on exp with this please holler. and if I do get 2 lines, 2 modem's. it better not be shared, not anymore than It would be shared if a neighbor had the same connect 3 houses down.

KavMan thats not bad 20.00 more a month here they want full price for a seconed acount. Richard. I would check with them. Hubbing and useing a router for your own personal use usally is allowed as long as you are not setting up a server to the out side world. Plus if you are useing ICS in windows with one Ip and twoo nics in the first computer and one in the seconed is still legal if it is for your own personal use. I know some people on home who do it. what they mean by illegal is if you are setting up a serverto the outside with one Ip. I would check on this. Because I pretty sure as long as it is for personal use it legal. I know it is where I live. GoodLuck! If you get two lines and another modem I doubt it will be shared. It would be just like installing a seconed acounnt.

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Phantom, We may not know! But, If we don't you could be a little more polite and answer the question. That was asked. We all are not into shotgunning cable modems. If you know how fine. I was just trying to help out. Richard if you purchase a seconed Ip you do not get more bandworth. I have a seconed Ip and still get the same bandworth. I use a switch to devived it eqauly between both computers. Hope this helps you out with your question.

Originally posted by Phantom-Vortex
lol..............YOU PEOPLE DONT KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT SHOTGUNNING BROADBAND.And yet you all say a bunch of theorys ,I myself have 2 dsl lines, both of them are static.I shotgun them all the time and it doubles my DL.You can shotgun a cable modem just fine, has a matter of fact you only need 1 modem, coming out the modem to a splitter then grab each ip on each nic (2 nics) set the static ips up WITH DIFFERENT SUBNETS, then use software like http://www.midpoint.com/.Also http://cable-dsl.home.att.net/#Bonding and http://www.vicomsoft.com/iand another article on it here athttp://www.homenethelp.com/web/howto/Midpoint- ... eaming.asp. Thank you have a nice day

LOL ! Did you read that on a Kellog's package???

Midpoint is useless for everything except browsing webpages - or documents with alot of 'small objects'. It will not improve a single download thread.

Is subnet your latest buzzword?

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Richard, I imagine that if you pay for two accounts, have two modems, etc., then you get double the bandwidth and can use it however you want, barring commercial use. If you have one account, one modem, and two IPs, then you probably just get the same bandwidth. As for them wanting you to have a separate connection for each computer, it's easy to get around that with a router. Just use NAT, and the router is the only "computer" visible to the ISP, but all your computers share the internet connection.

My bad..............