How I doubled my Internet speed with OpenWRT
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Re: How I doubled my Internet speed with OpenWRT
#2Awesome hack!
Re: How I doubled my Internet speed with OpenWRT
#3So this works because you have neighbors who are also on Comcast and you can leach bandwidth from them?
Re: How I doubled my Internet speed with OpenWRT
#4So this works because you have neighbors who are also on Comcast and you can leach bandwidth from them?
In my area, there are wireless access points mounted on some telephone poles which provide WiFi hotspots for anyone with credentials from a major local ISP.
Apart from that, my understanding is that Comcast routers broadcast your network and also broadcast this comcast hotspot network, and they are metered (and presumably capped) independently. So with this hack you would use only your equipment, you're just taking advantage of both networks that are being broadcast by your router.
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#5So this works because you have neighbors who are also on Comcast and you can leach bandwidth from them?
It works because he has access to two separate networks and can load balance between the two. His neighbors could be using any ISP. So long as his router can also connect to their network, he can load balance between their wireless network and his wired network. If his router had three radios, he could load balance between to upstream wireless networks and his own downstream network.
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#6So this works because you have neighbors who are also on Comcast and you can leach bandwidth from them?
It may be that connections though xfinitywifi don't count against the neighbors allocated bandwidth and won't degrade their service since their router and connection support more than their allocated bandwidth. Can anyone confirm if this is the case?
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#7So this works because you have neighbors who are also on Comcast and you can leach bandwidth from them?
The article is talking about also using the additional WiFi hotspot that every Comcast modem they provide you with has (not leaching from a neighbor). http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/12/comcast-sued-by-c...
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#8So it requires access to a second wireless network, as well as a router that supports OpenWRT and has two radios.
I don't see anything particularly noteworthy here. He just happens to have a very specific setup and is leveraging it.
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#9This is all well and good until you start doing anything with address sensitive replies. For example a VoIP call would need some way of anchoring the packets to a specific connection for the duration of the call (some kind of session pinning would be ideal).
I like the idea but I wonder how it performs on many use cases (like Skype or online gaming).
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#10So this works because you have neighbors who are also on Comcast and you can leach bandwidth from them?
I believe this only increases apparent bandwidth for applications which may open multiple connections at the same time, like web browsing and BitTorrent.