From: Brady, Padraig (Padraig.Brady at domain compaq.com)
Date: Fri 01 Oct 1999 - 17:34:44 IST
The problem with combining 2 ISDN channels like this
(known as multilink) is that there is no actual (ITU)
standard for it.
Both ends of the connection must use the same protocol
for combining the info from both B channels to one data
stream, as it seems that TInet and you have a mismatch
somewhere.
I actually haven't tried multilink to any ISPs only
between my own ISDN switches so I can't give you any
specific pointers in this regard. All I can say is
that the cheapo ISPs like IOL/Indigo/TInet just don't
know anything about ISDN.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brendan Kehoe [mailto:brendan at domain zen.org]
> Sent: 01 October 1999 17:24
>
> I've discovered that attempts to use both the B1 and B2 ISDN channels
> together, in an aim to get 128kB bandwidth when I need to do a massive
> transfer, actually makes the packets slow down to a crawl.
>
> I talked to both the tech support folks for eircomnet/Telecom
> Internet, and
> the ISDN support folks for the business division of the same.
> In essence, the
> answer I was given was that eircomnet only "supports" 64kB of
> traffic; that
> they do not support joining both channels together to
> increase the overall
> throughput. They said they're fairly new to this, so that's
> why it took them
> a while to come up with an answer when I called.
>
> So, I turn to the more helpful source of information in the area---you
> folks. :-) Is the above known to be true? Has anyone else
> successfully used
> both channels, or am I destined to only really use the first channel?
>
> Thanks for any hints!
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