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Combine your Wi-Fi, Ethernet and 3G connections to increase your download speed

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Re: Combine your Wi-Fi, Ethernet and 3G connections to increase your download speed

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Post by Gonzih »

cdcarter wrote: post #28
dgquintas wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Bonding" at the kernel level: The Linux bonding driver provides a method for aggregating multiple network interfaces into a single logical "bonded" interface. The behavior of the bonded interfaces depends on the mode. Generally speaking, modes provide either hot standby or load balancing services. Additionally, link integrity monitoring may be performed. https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/networking/bonding...…

People who are downvoting dgquintas, can you explain why? Or explain why this doesn't work? It seems to fulfill the problem?

sarcasm They hate fact that such cool feature can be implemented without node.js sacrasm

Re: Combine your Wi-Fi, Ethernet and 3G connections to increase your download speed

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Post by kvinnako »

anoncow16 wrote: post #18
mike-cardwell wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm pretty sure you can do this sort of load balancing on Linux without having to install any extra software, at the IP level, with the "ip rule" and "iptables" commands. EDIT: Yep: https://home.regit.org/netfilter-en/links-load-balancing/

TL;DR just buy a faster internet connection. It is possible to do per-packet load sharing in Linux as the link above suggests. Both links need to be able to source traffic using the same IP address, i.e. you can't mix comcast and dsl. The way to get around this is to have an upstream router that will source your traffic from the same IP address: client - routerD --upstream1---routerU -- the internets |-------upstream…

If everybody follows this advice, then the isp has to/will be increasing the price of the faster connection. And this is especially true in US, since there is virtually no real competition for isp.
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