Hmmm, never actually tried that... Here is what I know about similar situations -- you can take two modem and create what is called a MultiLink - where you use both modems to dial up to your ISP, however your ISP has to support this also. Basically both modems have to call the same place, which also has to support multilink.<br>
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Having said that.... I don't know of anyway to "share" two seperate connections -- obviously you can have one computer use one link, while the other computer uses the other link, so they are not affecting each other's bandwidth.<br>
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The problem is that you have two connections, each with their own IP address. Let's say the existing connection is 1.1.1.1 and the connection you are getting from FreeDSL is 9.9.9.9. Bear with me....<br>
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This page has its own IP address 23.23.23.23.<br>
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1. Using the existing connection, your Win98 box sends out the request saying "I am 1.1.1.1, I want the HTML from 23.23.23.23." The packet leaves your 98 machine and goes to your ISP, who in turn looks up the address 23.23.23.23 and has no idea where that is, so it sends it off to its default route but changes the source address to its own address (your ISPs router's address). This keeps going on until there is a router that knows how to resolve 23.0.0.0, then one that can resolve 23.23.0.0 and so one until the router that is on the network for 23.23.23.23. Now once the web server gets the request to send the web page, it does know what your address is, but does not know how to get there either, so it goes through the same process of getting the web page back to you. The router's changing the source address to its own is actually not really of much concern here, just the idea that it is going through many routers to get from point A to point B and on the way back, it may or more likely may not take the same route back to you.<br>
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Now if it were possible to send the request out two seperate pipes.... Basically you are sending out one request for each of the things on the web page (one for each image, one for each page source, etc.). The problem comes in that the TCPIP protocol stack is probably not going to send your request in one nice neat little package, its going to get split up, basically your requests that go out through the internet are going to be in many smaller packages, to be repackaged into the actual request once it gets to the site you are requesting.<br>
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Having said all that, its not possibly with anything, any program or protocol to send a request out two completely seperate pipes -- the multilink modems, since they are coming from the same machine, going into the same machine, its only multilink between those two machines everything else treats it as one link. If you could get two DSL links to the same place coming from the same machine or router, it may be possible. It may theoretically be possible to send bit 1 out through 1.1.1.1 and bit 2 out through 9.9.9.9, however the machine on the other end that is receiving your request is going to get two seperate requests and it actually will not resolve either because it is getting bits 1,2,5,8 from 1.1.1.1 and 3,4,6,7 from 9.9.9.9 and it is going to see that as two bad requests.<br>
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So after all that, I would say that it is not possible to do it through two seperate service providers.<br>
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Hope this long winded explanation helped a bit,<br>
Paul Kincaid
what i really want to do is have a LAN (or mabe just on computer) that can take advantage of freeDSL which operates slowwer than my cerent connection. So to make it work i was thinking about networking my computers using two lines, two ISP two, and two modems so i could reach something to the exspectations of my current connection(256k). The major benifit would be paying for two phone lines(about $20 per mounth), but not paying for two ISPs and DSL services(about $16+30 per mounth). the one major drawback so far has been the hardware and software(lol, maybe i too far ahead in my way of thinking, seening how Linksys just relessed a DSL router for home LANs 
). whatever the outcome i will continue to look for soulutions to my problem, even if it dosen't include my i-mac, which is kind of the point of setting up my LAN. even though i do plan to expand my home set up with another PC.<br>