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Geek Culture / Is It Possible to Have 2 ISP's for 1 Home

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soapyfish
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Posted: 13th Jul 2006 11:29
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Hi all,
For reasons beyond my control I won't be getting a whiff of broadband unless we can also keep the use of dial-up (I know how odd this must sound to most of you but there's nothing I can do about it). I'd like to take the opportunity to try something other than AOL but can this be done? Is it possible for 1 computer to use AOL Dial-Up and for me to use (for example) Tiscali Broadband? And more importantly, will we both be able to be connected at the same time (I realise broadband is 'always on' but will the dial-up be able to connect when I'm connected).

If this isn't possible, I'll give aol a bell and see what they say about having both a dial-up and broadband account at the same time.

Thanks in advance.

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Kentaree
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Posted: 13th Jul 2006 11:34
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Theoretically, it should be possible. DSL uses a phone line but at a different frequency than normal phone calls, so you can still use the phone. Making use of this, you probably will be able to use both, at the same time even, as long as the ISP doesnt cancel your previous subscription or put you on a different "virtual network"

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Richard Davey
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Posted: 13th Jul 2006 12:04
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My ADSL ISP (Zen) have a modem back-up number, incase your router (or the ADSL line) goes down. I've used it once (when I fried my Linksys) and it worked perfectly. This is of course on an ADSL enabled line.

In other words, a modem should work just fine on an ADSL line (obviously check the placement of your filters), and you should have no problems at all.

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Jess T
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Posted: 13th Jul 2006 13:19
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When you're connect to DSL, you can still make standard phone calls (provided you have a line filter inbetween the external line and the phone), and since Dial-up is just that - a standard call, then you can both connect at the same time

I've done it once a while back whilst I was testing out a new ADSL modem - I had one PC hooked up to the net for destructions on the Modem via Dial-up, then sucessfully connected the other via DSL.

Now, we have two lines in the house, and both are used for different broadband connections

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Chris Franklin
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Posted: 13th Jul 2006 16:04
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Quote: "An d rememeber taht to make use od DSL, you have to live within a certain range from you telephons companys office, i think its abour 3 miles, else, no DSL."


Er what does that actually say?

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Preston C
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Posted: 13th Jul 2006 16:19 Edited at: 13th Jul 2006 16:20
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Yes, it's possible for one to have two ISP's in one home. My mother enjoy's having her own DSL line provided by one ISP in our area, she's a work at home contractor programming for some database project or another, while my brother and I share a cable line provided by another ISP.

All three of our connections are online at the same time, and unless there's some kind of hidden ISP War behind the scenes, I don't believe our ISP's (Epix and Blue Ridge/PTD) mind very much either.

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soapyfish
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Posted: 14th Jul 2006 01:59
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Top stuff. Thanks for the help everyone.

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Jeff Miller
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Posted: 14th Jul 2006 03:02
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Don't look upon it as a complication, but rather a practicality. Such a setup saved me grief in two types of situations:
1. When a local thunderstorm would kill the cable signal for a few hours, but not the power, I could revert to dial-up to check important emails, either on the desktop or laptop.
2. During a power outage, I would run my laptop with the dial-up phone line. This extended battery backup capacity by not diverting the capacity to the cable modem, because the laptop battery itself would carry the ball for quite a while before I had to tap the regular battery backups.
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