is anyone here using acanac.ca with linux ?

[Michael Lauzon]

On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 15:54, Meng Cheah<meng-R6A+fiHC8nRWk0Htik3J/w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> From Teksavvy's email solicitation to current customers:
>
> "MLPPP stands for "Multi-Link Point-to-Point Protocol" and gives you the
> ability to "bond" multiple DSL connections together to act as one fast
> connection. For example if you have 2 DSL connections at the same residence
> (or business) with us you can switch to MLPPP and have those 2 connections
> operate as if they were 1 big connection.
>
> Single link connections (people with 1 DSL connection) can simply enable
> MLPPP in their Windows dialer or purchase supported third party hardware.
>
> Third party hardware is required for multiple connections bonded together."
>
>
> I use a WRT54GL with Tomato/MLPPP firmware with a single link connection.
>
> From http://fixppp.org/index.php?p=about
> "Tomato/MLPPP is a fork of the popular Tomato firmware
> (http://www.polarcloud.com/tomato) for consumer broadband routers. The
> primary goal is to enable users to bond multiple DSL connections using
> MultiLink PPP (MLPPP), and/or to circumvent Bell Canada's DPI-based
> throttling by using MLPPP on a single DSL line.
>
> Obviously, your ISP must support MLPPP in order for this firmware to be of
> any use. Currently, only TekSavvy (http://teksavvy.com) and Velcom
> (http://www.velcom.ca) are known to support this. Acanac
> (http://www.acanac.ca) and Electronic Box (http://www.electronicbox.net) are
> currently working on enabling MLPPP support, to various degrees."
>
> You can call Teksavvy re supported third party hardware at 1 877 357 2889.

I called Teksavvy before this email showed up, didn't know they had an
877 number, so I just paid long distance fees.  Anyeverhow....
Teksavvy quoted me a price of around $80 to get MLPPP, they said I'd
need a second phone line, etc.


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Michael Lauzon
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