AKSHUALLY, YOU ARE CHEATING!

No seriously, the idea of #MultiLinkPPP isn't new and in #EDGEland aka. #Germany there a company to this day called #Viprinet who's CEO & Founder actually patented both mixed-technology link bonding and transparent applianced devices to facilitate these links, allowing for transparent redundancy, bonding, speed and low latency, without packet drops and on-the-fly speed changes.

• And unlike #MultipathTCP and #PPP - #MultiLink setups or #MPLS it's actually an encrypted #VPN and can transparently allow all #IPv4 & #IPv6 packets through it - including #UDP - whilst not requiring cooperation from the #ISPs and being able to arbitrarily connect anything from ISDN to Cable and from 2G to 5G as well as Ethernet and WiFi...

The main selling point is that it reduces costs compared to #SDSL with guaranteed SLAs, so a link failing would merely slow down the speeds transparently.

• So yeah it makes sense in nieche applications...

For those of you old enough to remember dial up internet connectivity with modems over analog telephone lines, then this episode of 'The Serial Port' might be of interest:

https://youtu.be/LZ259Jx8MQY

They investigate Multilink-PPP to see what speed improvements are possible when multiple individual analog modems connection are combined into one overall connection.

They then attempt to see how many simultaneous PPP sessions over multiple modems are possible and what speeds might be achieved! There appears to be no documentation on the upper limit for Multilink-PPP.

Can they stream YouTube 144p or 240p video over an analog connection? 🤔🤷‍♂️

Earlier episodes cover the telecoms hardware in more detail so don't miss those if that detail floats your boat 😁👍

#MultiLinkPPP #Dialup #Modem #RetroComputing #SerialPort