Now that the op has published this workaround, I have the feeling that Comcast will take steps to stop this from happening. Comcast's version of "customer service."
How I doubled my Internet speed with OpenWRT
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Re: How I doubled my Internet speed with OpenWRT
#102Re: How I doubled my Internet speed with OpenWRT
#103Am I the only one that sees missing letters? http://s2.postimg.org/vpba0a1wp/image.png
I'm seeing corrupted 'r's in the section headings. http://i.imgur.com/v7HZcQI.png (Firefox 36, Win 7 x64, AMD Radeon HD 7770)
i assumed that was intentional, but now that i think about it you're probably right.
Re: How I doubled my Internet speed with OpenWRT
#104Xfinity says your wireline speed will not be impeded by others who are using WiFi via the xfinitywifi shared service. Since DOCSIS 3.0 has no limit on the maximum number of channels (source http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOCSIS#Bandwidth_tables ), I believe in order to make that claim, they have to allocate additional channels to the xfinitywifi traffic. BUT OP will only double his bandwidth if he is purchasing a rate…
>Xfinity says your wireline speed will not be impeded by others who are using WiFi
From my experience with low throughput 2-4mbps lines I'm deeply sceptical about claims like that. Throughput will generally be OK...but if you want stable latency...good luck. The second someone else is on the same line goes flakely unless its a high powered line (fibre etc)
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#105Do xfinitywifi hotspots permanently authenticate clients based only on their MAC addresses? A malicious client could easily find the MAC address of any device connected to a xfinitywifi hotspot (by using e.g. airodump-ng [0]) and then spoof that device's MAC address on their own computer to access the internet via the hotspot without any authentication. [0] http://www.aircrack-ng.org/doku.php?id=airodump-ng
I don't think it's permanent, but once you authenticate, any other device that can spoof the MAC address can connect. It might expire a month or so after the last connection.
Re: How I doubled my Internet speed with OpenWRT
#106Am I the only one that sees missing letters? http://s2.postimg.org/vpba0a1wp/image.png
Working perfect here. Opera 27.0.1689.76 over OS X
Re: How I doubled my Internet speed with OpenWRT
#107Could something like this (two ISP connections) be combined to use the speed of both links at once (i.e. speed up a single connection). Perhaps with the aide of a remote VPS?
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#108I use this very same feature of openwrt to load balance between my two ISPs. Here in argentina neither of the two ISP are reliable, but cheap enought if you really use then and you need reliability. I recommend multiwan3 as the op suggest, other pkgs didnt work for me. Some modern routers have two radios for 2.5 and 5ghz, but even with one radio openwrt allows you to set it up as client and ap. I find other features…
I was going to go with pfSense for that feature. Do you think it makes sense?
I used pfSense in a very different context (vpn gateway) and I used the vmware image option. I haven't used the multiwan feature and I don't know if it can be installed on (almost) any router as openwrt.
I did tried dd-wrt for this same purpose, the interface is much better, it is very flexible as openwrt, but I couldn't put my wifi on client and AP mode at the same time and I needed to connect to one of my WAN using wifi because that modem is not close enough yet.
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#109Earlier quoted context omitted.
Think kd it this way. When you stream a movie from Netflix it is one TCP session. Not 5, 10, etc. So if you load balance to your neighbor your stream will be worse by default. Like others have pointed out, Linux doesn't load balance a single connection over multiple WANs, so as long as the Netflix stream gets on the best link, it'll be better since it'll have to compete with fewer connections (since some will be rout…
Actually it won't. Think of it this way... 4 lane highway vs 1 lane dirt road. While combining the two makes the number of paths greater the paths themselves are not equal (my equal cost load balancing remark). So, if the router is not taking link cost into account, which it is not, you'll actually have worse performance over all of your connections because the router will try to balance them equally on session start…
In the general case, sure, though I was replying to your specific example. That said, the software he uses for load balancing (mwan3) does support different weights for each wan connection, it's just a matter of configuration.
Re: How I doubled my Internet speed with OpenWRT
#110I use this very same feature of openwrt to load balance between my two ISPs. Here in argentina neither of the two ISP are reliable, but cheap enought if you really use then and you need reliability. I recommend multiwan3 as the op suggest, other pkgs didnt work for me. Some modern routers have two radios for 2.5 and 5ghz, but even with one radio openwrt allows you to set it up as client and ap. I find other features…
I find openWRT is a really useful firmware project and I use it in any situation where it is feasible. Bandwidth Throttling / QOS is often in demand. Wireless Bridging works well. A nice side effect of using openWRT is that you sidestep many of the "backdoors" that sometimes appear (intentionally or otherwise) in stock firmware.
I also helped create a page that can help find the current most powerful routers that support WRT:
http://rooftopbazaar.com/routerfirmware/