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AlexGizis
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Comment #44460168
Seems like it arrives with a bit more energy than a 10 on richter scale: https://www.edinformatics.com/inventions_inventors/richter_s... No, I can’t really imagine what that means,…
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Comment #43109575
It's been tried and failed: Sun Microsystems pushed certifications in the 90s. Pass the test on some technology, get the certification. Then they studied performance. The result? M…
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Comment #41223404
To expand on this, if they tried to land on the water planet where time so dilated that one hour equals 7 months… what would their velocity have been when they contacted the surfac…
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Comment #40847777
Speedify | Senior Software Engineer | Location: Philadelphia, PA | ONSITE at once per week | Full Time At Speedify we make complex networking tasks easy by developing apps that del…
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Comment #30667819
Shoot us an email at support@speedify.com. If it wasn't recently, there have been a lot of improvements at every level of the software.
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Comment #30667784
Oh, I remember you! We've made major changes to the protocol since then. Connections with as much latency and loss as you had cannot be maxxed out by a single TCP connection. We no…
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Comment #30667755
Yes, speedify has a lot of smarts around packet loss. It uses up to 8 TCP connections in parallel to avoid slow downs based on loss. But for the kind of burst of massive loss you d…
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Comment #30667678
Alex from Speedify here. It's not our project but it is exciting that they're putting our software on the router. Happy to answer any questions.
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Comment #28597686
Actually Speedify on your phone is pretty good for that. If the hotspot doesn't work, it fails over to the LTE automatically so the bad hotspots never knock you offline.
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Comment #28595638
Oh, yeah, sorry, I guess that's not so clear. Just install, and you start on the free tier.
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Comment #28595321
We still have the 2GB per month free tier with no registration. It's available everywhere but Linux... unfortunately, without us doing anything really creepy (which we won't do), i…
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Comment #28595179
That works, and has been done before. It can be confusing to run Speedify and the VPN client on the same box, but if there's a Speedify router box with the internet, and another bo…
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Comment #28595128
Not at this point, sorry.
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Comment #28595038
Alex from Speedify here. Yes, we make a multi-path VPN tunnel, so that calls can be shifted from one link to another without glitches (apps see the same IP address the whole time).…
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Comment #28594942
Alex from Speedify here. Yes, exactly, we have swarms of redundant servers. The servers are very reliable, but in case of failure, you're on another server in 30 seconds. Your comm…
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Comment #14891085
Speedify got pulled Saturday morning: "your application will be removed from the China App Store because it includes content that is illegal in China, which is not in compliance wi…
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Comment #14891081
Speedify got pulled Saturday morning: "your application will be removed from the China App Store because it includes content that is illegal in China, which is not in compliance wi…