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Modem for cable and dial up on same pc?

I don't know what ELNK is.

Some cable ISPs maintain a dialup number. Many don't... you would have to check with them to see if that option exists.

Just the same, you can configure your options to do dialup, cable, wireless, etc. There's a few little issues about where 'read' mail goes to and that stuff but sure, you can dialup to NetZero (and pay separately for that account) with or without the cable connection. You need a phone line to bypass the cable modem but its all there in the configuration menus.

I tote around a laptop in my work and on any given day I might have to select cable, wireless or dialup. Never had any issues. Biggest issue is the anti-virus software that will start downloading shit immediately when you get online and bog down the overall speed maybe for a few minutes (AVG) .

-Bill

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exray
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Now that we have a high speed cable connection we do not need dial up. But it might be nice to have back up. I can add a dial up but will there be conflicts? The cable modem is always on. Now I put ELNK on the new pc and maybe I have a problem. I figure we'd only use the dial up if the high speed went down. Is there a way to set it up so ELNK couldn't connect if the other one did? Or could you disable the cable modem and use dial up should you want to.

Or should we drop ELNK and go to a Free ISP like Net Zero? But then the same questions exists.... having a high speed cable connection and a dial up on the same pc.Conflicts? Will it work?

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David Zeit

No conflicts because of different protocols. Just make sure the default connection is your cable and not dial up. Is your cable open or do you need to authenticate before having access outside the providers cloud?

In the future when you present a question about 'your' computer you might want to bless us all with your version of operating system.

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Meat Plow

EarthLiNK

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Michael A. Terrell

Yes, but not at the same time. Earthlink gives you 20 hours a month dialup as a backup for broadband outages.

Net Zero only gives you 10 free hours a month, and they have no NTTP servers.

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Michael A. Terrell

There are, but there are a few people who get upset about everything as well..

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Michael Kennedy

On Fri, 04 Apr 2008 10:17:24 -0800, David Zeit put finger to keyboard and composed:

No, but you may get a more knowledgeable response at comp.dcom.modems or comp.dcom.modems.cable.

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Franc Zabkar

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