[u-u] Someone used to have a redundant ISP service... Who?

[Bruce Becker]

There have been services which used 2 or more isp streams multiplexed per packet over the connection set,
so the aggregate bandwidth approaches the sum of the bandwidths of each stream - if one stream went down,
the bandwidth was effectively reduced by that amount & with appropriate buffering, retransmits from the the
sending side to replace the consequent lost packets should reduce or eliminate the perceived "hiccup" at the
receiving end 

I seem to recall thatTeloip was one of the providers for such services


What's described here seems more like disk mirroring, so the aggregate bandwidth would probably not be
much more than that of the fastest stream


Cheers, BB

     On Sunday, May 4, 2025 at 07:11:16 p.m. EDT, David Collier-Brown <davecb.42 at gmail.com> wrote:  
 
 It sent the exact same stream of data down both Rogers and Bell lines. 
If a packet got dropped, it was replaced by the copy from the other vendor.

This handled censorship, bad cables and outages.

But who was it? I can see him in my mind...

--dave

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David Collier-Brown,        | Always do right. This will gratify
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