Two cable modems?

[ian@huth]

Originally Posted by RedMercury

Who said anything about need?

It was more of a curiosity thing. I don't download that much, but when I do I want it quickly! I'm going to downgrade from tier 3 to tier 2 if/when NTL bring tier 2 up to 10mbit anyway.

I mentioned the word NEED because of m47een's comment about having two connections for their combined upstream capabilities. I quite understand having two connections in order to get information quicker as your OP mentioned. Having faster connections to get things quicker without trying to download the entire internet is a use that some people do not seem to comprehend.

I used the word NEED because if having two connections just for the higher combined upload capability would suggest that the user will regularly be using more than the 512kb that one connection gives. It would soon saturate upstream bandwidth if there were several doing this.

Whilst I agree with Ignition that there is a thread for capping I thought that I had made a comment that was in context to what this thread was about. I don't agree with him posting off topic personal attacks on other members in his posts though.

[Ignition]

Originally Posted by m47een

Thanks for your feedback Ignition,

I dont meen to cheeky or anything but I would be grateful if you could explain why this would be no good for game hosting.?

I was looking into Vicomsoft Intergate software and from what I could gather I assumed you could use the aggregate bandwidth of both connections, is this not right??

No, you'd still have 2 different IP addresses, people can't connect to both so you'd only be able to host more games not bigger ones.

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Originally Posted by ian@huth

I don't agree with him posting off topic personal attacks on other members in his posts though.

Response was in reference to your off topic comment. I would love to share bandwidth with no-one, doesn't mean I need to post about it in a thread about essentially ntl's billing. None of our business why the chap wanted to know or what he does with it, he may just want to upload 5MB attachments faster and is no different from 2 student houses each with 5 people living in them having 10Mbit and hammering it.

If you regard it as a personal attack drop your own attacks whenever you get the hint someone might use their connection more heavily than you do, or consider acceptable.

Anyway dragging more OT, question has been answered as has question above.

[m47een]

Thanks for our help ignition that point simply didn't occur to me and also thanks for replying to ian@huth.

I would just like to clarify with ian@huth that I only have one connection and it is one that I use within the terms and agreement with NTL. I donââ‚Âà ‚¬ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â‚¬Å¾Ã‚¢t see how me asking somebody a question about increasing bandwidth should affect you in anyway shape or form. I would therefore suggest you keep your opinions of other peoples bandwidth usage to yourself. Itââ‚ ¬ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â‚¬Å¾Ã‚¢s not your service that I am using its NTL's if they have a problem with anything I do then they have the right to speak to me about it. You on the other hand are just another paying customer just like the rest of us. Anyway even I had two connections what does it matter to you? I would be paying for both just the same you pay for yours, I donââ‚Âà ‚¬ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â‚¬Å¾Ã‚¢t see how my or anyone elseââ‚ ¬Ã¢â€žÂ¢s bandwidth usage effects you and as such gives you no right to comment on how much or little I use.

I have 2 connections in my house and they are running fine, I'm getting 9.32MBPS my lad upstairs is on the 1meg I think his speeds are fine, the only problem regarding the install was the cable outside wasn't big enough because we have the phone and TV with NTL, they had to come and install a new cable, this all happend on the day of the install.