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- From: yaojun@tigger.uic.edu (John)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Modem Sharing
- Date: Tue, 20 Feb 1996 01:15:51 GMT
- Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
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- trevenue@ix,netcom.com (Ted Revenue) wrote:
-
- >>A very quick question:
- >>
- >>We have a network.. We want to be able to dial out from any
- >>machine on the network, but we only have 1 modem and one outside
- >>phone line...
- >>
- >>Since I know its possible to share printers and files across the
- >>network.. its not too big of a stretch to imagine that it is also
- >>possible to share modems across the network...
-
- Clear question!
-
- >Well, lets's give this a try.
-
- >You only have 1 modem and one phone line. Which in data communications
- >means only one call one connection at a time.
- >When you first place an outgoing call the modem goes 'off-hook' and
- >you hear dial tone. When the remote modem answers and hand-shaking
- >take place carrier detect goes high. If another local computer attempts
- >to make another dial-up connection the modem goes 'off-hook' again and
- >carrier detect drops out completely and looses the first connection.
- >Then, the second call is placed.
-
- >Hope this helps.
-
- >Ted
-
- Clear answer!
-
- which leads to another question...
-
- If you ever user Netscape or other internet browsers you may know that
- you can have multi sections active, namely, you can download files
- from any sites while you are browsing any sites. This is a kind of
- modem sharing, one modem, one line and at same time. Although this
- is done through winsock based on tcp/ip, it is essencially a modem
- sharing!
-
- My question is why this is not possible in a lan situation?
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