why is this needed?

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Any and all residential ISPs (and most small-business-grade commercial ISPs) are prone to frequent intermittent failure. And they just... don't... give a shit. I can pick Time-Warner, who will go 3 months without a problem but then drop me for 5min-3hrs at a time three or four times a day for a few days or a few weeks until finally they get their shit temporarily straight again... or I can go with BellSouth's DSL, which is more predictably "frequently broken" and considerably lower bandwidth.

Suck, or suck? You choose!

Now, no worries. One or the other of them may be down at any given time, but the odds of BOTH of them being down SIMULTANEOUSLY approximate the odds of a power outage.

(It may not be a big deal to *you* if *your* internet access goes out for 5 minutes or an hour, but it can be CRITICAL for me when I'm remotely administering a machine in another state.)

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ah i was just wondering

thanks for the clarification

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When choosing just one of the ISP's which one would you go with if you could only go with one. Thanks for the help.


My Quote "I DO WHAT I WANT"

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Oh, Time-Warner, no question. Roughly the same cost, no phone line required, double the bandwidth, no PPPoE bullshit to deal with = teh win.

And if you don't move into an apartment complex that was originally (and crappily) wired for cable 20 or 30 years ago, you may very well never have a single issue.

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jim, youre making me horny man, stop it. . . . .

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What device are you using to execute this, aside from the two modems?

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his vestigial penis

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Xincom XC-DPG502.

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