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Default Rural broadband speeds

Alan Braggins wrote:
In article , The Natural Philosopher wrote:
wrote:
Have you considered using a server to use your and one or more

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neighbour's broadband lines so you both get twice the speed most of

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the time?
Very complicated.
Even a humble win98 box supports this. Just need a second nic
and the cd or 98 files to install the necessary non-default bits.

And waht will that achieve? you need a second phone line.


As he was already suggesting.


No he wsn't He was suggesting that te combination of a

a twin NIC windows box
a neighbour some unspeified distance away

was a magic solution for bandwidth.

Well it isn't.