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Masses?

I bet you that the number of people who use MiFi adapters and Speedify is FAR less than those who are using VPNs to circumvent geo-restrictions.

So it is quite the way around; the masses are VPN users.

The real evil here is corporate greed and their need to restrict who watches what.

TL;DR: Even worse than the last software bundle. Half of the software is limited to a one year license. But that doesn't really matter since most of the software is either completely unnecessary or has a good freeware/open-source alternative. I mean, WinZip? Really?
The only software worth it might be EaseUS ToDo Backup (since there isn't really a fully featured backup solution that's also user-friendly) and Speedify VPN (although its use case where you want to combine multiple internet connections is really rare).

Removing the wifi mesh and having only a wired connection from dishy to the PS4 will help. This is not a Starlink specific think - wifi as any part of your setup for online gaming is bad regardless of our ISP.

Some people who really care of gaming, or 100% stable video calls, have taken the approach of keeping their old ISP service and using a product like Speedify to bond the two connections. Basically, if your Starlink connection drops then Speedify will fail back to your old ISP's connection while Starlink recovers. It's not a very cost efficient option, but it is an option.

Disclaimer: I haven't gotten my Starlink delivered yet so am only repeating the advice that I have heard from others.

I understood that. The issue is that if the two access points are on separate networks you’ll be in for quite a bit of pain since you’ll need to somehow split traffic across both pipes without confusing the server at the other end. This can be done by sending all traffic to certain destination IPs through one connection and the rest through the other however this doesn’t exactly balance well depending on your luck.

You could use the (comercial) product called Speedify. I can’t vouch for them but they claim to have a custom VPN which lets them split traffic safely across multiple networks without the issues I mentioned above since they’re splitting VPN traffic and recombining it on the other side in a way that all protocols expect.

T-Mobile one would be $180 for 5 lines of unlimited(video at 480p unless you use a VPN or pay and $15/month/line(when you can use something like Speedify for $15 for 6 months and you have to pay once for 5 users connecting simultaneously).

You get deprioritized after 50 gigs.

128kbps and unlimited texting for free overseas. $0.25 calls. $50/month gets you 15gb international LTE(and unlimited calls and text) for one line. $5/day gets you 500MB international LTE and unlimited talk and text.

Bought myself 1/2 price special MLB TV for Fathers Day - I'm mothering the kid who made my husband a father - I deserve it!

I'm playing around with VPNs, in hopes of cutting cable, but I can't seem to get it to work on my phone. I've tried Speedify, TunnelBear, and Windscribe. None of them seem to be working. I've tried multiple countries.

I'm headed out to my InLaws (no TWCSpectrum). What should I try next?

Worst case, I wait till we get home, pour some wine then watch the archive.

Alex from Connectify, the makers of Speedify. You're right about the free VPNs. We're not one of them, though. We charge yearly subscriptions so we don't need to do any of the creepy advertising stuff that free VPNs do to pay their bills.

I am not a network engineer, but I’ve spent a lot of time at layer 2. They are very similar technologies, they just happen at different points in the network stack. Channel bonding occurs below the MAC layer, such that both sides of the physical links see them as a single logical link. In contrast to load balancing, which I think usually happens at the IP layer to distribute traffic.

I know nothing of this how Speedify works, this is the first I’ve heard of it, but it sounds like a hybrid of the two. Since you are bonding between different providers, you can’t have regular Ethernet bonding because there is nothing shared at the link-local level to do regular bonding, so it sounds like it’s really more of a load balancer that uses a vpn interface to masquerade as bonding.

FWIW channel bonding, like load balancing, doesn’t tend to accelerate single conversation streams. It’s usually algorithmically determined which link to send traffic down in order to preserve packet ordering.

ELI5 explanation: Failover for your link is like taking another car on another road when you get stuck in traffic. The issue with this is that your destination will no longer recognize you as you have changed roads/cars (even though you’re the same person). That means you have to re-establish a relationship with your destination so they now recognize you.
Speedify gives you a consistent starting point for your trips. As far as your destination is concerned, you are always coming from Speedify’s house in the same car on the same road. It’s like a disguise so it always looks like you’re in the same car coming from the same road even though you might be taking a different road to get to Speedify’s house at any given time.

My understanding is if you bond an rtmp successfully you are re-wrapping the stream through a new protocol that can work with and identify the different pipes and get reconstructed upon receipt. Rtmp is comparatively basic. LRT for live u is a lot like SRT, but you can’t use it unless you are running through the bonding part and using their server to convert it back to rtmp, otherwise it is just encoding directly. This is the case for the dejero as well, same sort of idea.

Speedify helps sort of bond connections for an RTMP if it is a supported platform for it, it will trick the protocol as if it’s going through a normal connection, but speedify does its VPN magic where it shares internet connections and data wrangles. It would require further research to explain competently.

Apple devices sometimes are notorious for "sticky wifi" compared to other devices, as the threshold for bad RSSI strength is higher (at least it was the last time I extensively researched the issue).

I've heard about Speedify but never used it, there may be other comparable programs.

Probably going to use a couple for a few network monitoring programs though I’m not sure what yet. I already own one running pihole. Plex media server, vpn server. one I want to attempt to use as a potable network bonding device (using Speedify) to connect multiple connections to (multiple hotspots and WiFi to use for live streaming

The hifiberry I’d like to setup as a airplay/chromecast receiver.

So far that’s all I’ve came up with. I’m open to all kinds of suggestions as to what I can utilize all these for.

The Unifi Security Gateway products as well as the EdgeRouter products from Ubiquiti can handle this. The basic USG has 3 ports, one WAN, one LAN and one that can be LAN2 or WAN2.

Using nearly any hardware solutions would be round-robin or failover only most likely without getting into anything fancy - but it sounds like you're already aware of that. You can use some software solutions to bridge the connections as a single link, but this requires a form of bonding over VPN. Speedify is a pure software solution which works upto 50Mbit I believe. Peplink also supports this between two Peplink products. One at your home, one in a colo or elsewhere connected to a much faster internet connection. This is really intended for commercial applications and priced accordingly. There are DIY solutions out there but it's going to require a lot more knowledge and time on your part which likely wouldn't be worth it.

When you need extra stability you can use Speedify to bond Starlink and Viasat (or mobile tethering if you have cell signal). It's a multipath VPN that uses both connections at the same time. Failover is instant and unlike traditional load balancing your external IP won't change so connections aren't reset, you aren't booted from video calls or games. The only drawback is it adds a little latency because it's a VPN.

If you can, I would exercise another month or two of patience. I have an almost entirely unobstructed field of view except for the 60-90 degree range. Whether it was Starlink planned outages, loss of satellites, or my obstructions, I was getting 60-80 outages per hour. Made it unusable for live work, although bonding a Speedify connection got me through a number of calls.

But in the last 24 hours, I'm running at 2-4 outages an hour and going 1-3 hours at a time uninterrupted. Only another 30 satellites operational from before, from what I can tell. Which leads me to what I think is the obvious about the beta- we need to be patient. We look to be a few months away from something completely amazing.

I am south of Madison and have been using Starlink for work from home for a few months. The bandwidth is great and works really well. Speeds for me are in the advertised 50-150MB range. The only issue I’m having is with drops from Teams calls once or twice an hour. For non-critical calls, it’s annoying but manageable. For critical calls, I am either switching to my mobile hotspot or using Speedify to combine Starlink and hotspot.

The number of drops is really affected by obstructions. You can use the Starlink app to check obstructions. As more satellites are launched, I expect the drop frequency to decrease.

It works great for streaming. No issues. I haven’t tried gaming, so can’t help you there.

Do you encode on a laptop or a hardware encoder? I know it's got a bit of a prosumer vibe to it but I've had a ton of success with Speedify bonding several connections, ethernet + Wifi + USB cellular.

What I use is Speedify. I use my iphone and hotspot as my primary connections, and my android tablet as my backup connection. It bonds them all together into one connection. The bonus feature is that with some little hacks it doesn't use my iphone hotspot plan.

"If you're just using the data on your laptop/computer, use the following commands in the CMD window:

netsh int ipv4 set glob defaultcurhoplimit=65

netsh int ipv6 set glob defaultcurhoplimit=65 "

I'm using Speedify to switch over to my cell phone hot spot to cover these frequent, and short interruptions to handle zoom calls. Hoping that in 3-6 months, I can move off of this backup plan. All is good with this beta test, with the exception of the connection drops. I have zero obstructions and 100 disconnects in the last 12 hours (2 minutes beta downtime and 1 minute no sats). This is the one part of the Starlink beta that every user should have a plan for.

I agree with this, but have been able to get around the challenges you mentioned for video conferencing using Speedify. With Speedify the dropouts change from 5-10 seconds of complete loss to 1-2 seconds. On super important meetings I have three connections - Starlink (primary), LTE-hub (secondary) and iphone (backup).

Is it 15 miles to the edge of an active cell to your house? That might be pushing it a little. I'm about 10 miles to the edge of my active cell and I get about 2 hrs obstructions during the day and a lot less at night. This results in drops during the day about every 3 to 5 minutes when it connects to the next satellite. It's like it connects to a satellite and then drops it for a few seconds as it's getting farther away before it locks on to the next satellite. Most of the time the drops are very short and you don't notice it while streaming movies and tv shows but you will notice it web browsing because it will pause when loading pages. Speedify is a way around it if you have an lte or another internet connection to fail over to.

Cricket operates on AT&T and they have some issues with closed NAT. I think there was a way to overcome this by routing your cell connection through a PC, but otherwise it isn’t possible with just the normal WiFi hotspot that is available on your phone. It has to do with ATT settings on their end unfortunately... I switched to T-Mobile and hotspot has been working great for splatoon. Sprint and Verizon apparently also work based on what I’ve read; it’s really just ATT and companies that use ATT service.

Edit: this is the workaround I had used to play Splatoon 2 when I was on Cricket. Unfortunately it is inconvenient to need a PC with you to do this, but it was the only way I got it to work. I needed a PC with Speedify and Connectify both installed. Then I USB tethered my phone to the PC and shared the connection using Speedify VPN and Connectify. See if this allows you to get online using cricket hotspot

I’ve been using VPN for 4 months now on an iPhone 8 Plus. They have no way of telling since it seems like I’m sending data to a random corporate server. The thread was about a Samsung device that likely had a software bug. Even sprint which says tethering data is shared with vpn has no way of telling if you use a HIGH QUALITY PAID VPN. DONT USE FREE ONES, I use Speedify which is $3 a month if you buy for 6 months and will work on 5 devices at once. T-Mobile makes you pay $10/device/month so it’s a $47/month difference if you have 5 devices that want to watch HD YT/Netflix.

i've tried that but overwatch disconnects when there's a change in connections :( anyway i've found a free vpn, Speedify. i can play overwatch with pretty good ping (around 20+), took me some time to find since i've tried like 5-6 free vpns which all gave around 300-400 ping so i guess this is the one that works best so far. but since its free, you only get 5gb per month - sufficient i guess. you can definitely give Speedify a try!

2.. wifi's?

You mean 2 different Wifi-Networks with different Internet-accesses?

You can split and merge traffic with various tools. (a server outside is necessary to recombine the streams)

And there is a service-provider that worked quite well for me in the past: Speedify

When you need extra stability you can use Speedify to bond Starlink and a second ISP (i.e. mobile tethering). It's a multipath VPN that uses both connections at the same time. Failover is instant and your external IP won't change so connections aren't reset, you aren't booted from video calls or games. The only drawback is it adds a little latency because it's a VPN.

I doubt it, since Speedify itself is a VPN. You might be able to make it work with some elbow grease and networking knowledge, but I wouldn't go in expecting success. That said, I think there's a free trial.

I use the PIA VPN and I notice that if I have that connection up and then start speedify, the connection stays up. But no traffic goes through it, and if you disconnect PIA you cannot reconnect as long as speedify is running. I don't need them to work together so that's as far as I've investigated.

The first issue is that WAN failover is neither instantaneous nor transparent.

If you're getting 30 sec interruptions, it will be hard to failover and back without whiplash.

In a typical failover scenario, some apps will disconnect for a while (or forever, eg a remote shell) on failover and the others will reconnect, but it will take them some time.

Your best bet is to use something like Speedify right on your endpoint. I have no experience with it, but it may have a chance of helping you while WAN failover of any kind is unlikely to.

I'm finding it harder and harder to get wired ethernet access at venues...I guess that's a symptom of wifi getting better and better. Some folks don't even know where the ports are anymore lol.

Even when the venue internet seems good enough, the great part about Speedify is you can still setup bonding to your cellular, but it won't use any data if it doesn't have to fall back on it. Data is super expensive in Canada so that saves me some serious coin.

I have multiple Teams meetings every day (usually just audio, but sometimes video too). I do not have any significant drops (sometimes, I might miss a bit of audio for a second or so). My stats have been hovering around 30s to 1 minute of obstructions / 12 hours, and ~1-2 minutes of 'Other Outages'. (I'm at 23 seconds and 25 seconds respectively right now today.)

I do have a DSL connection as a backup (~5Mbs), and use Speedify to combine the two streams. However, I'm not sure Speedify is effective for these short drops: if I physically disconnect my laptop from Starlink, it seems to take a relatively significant amount of time for my connection to work to come back up (I have not done any real testing to confirm this: I just tried it once and it seemed to take a long time to re-connect).

I'm hoping with the next batch of satellites coming online, my obstructions will get down to zero. Once I hit that point, I'll disable Speedify and my DSL connection and see what happens.

Definitely deal with the obstructions.

Service is not all the way there yet, but I have been able to move to just Dishy within the past month for both work and occasional gaming. I am only getting a drop every 2-3 hours.

Speedify is a great solution if you need the connectivity more consistent. If I have a lot of meetings and can’t afford a drop I tether for that time and end up using next to no hotspot data (mostly just there to bridge any disconnects).

That's a good question. It's not something that we've seen users run into much ourselves. Interestingly, it's possible your ISP is throttling your network specifically for YouTube traffic (see this article.

We do encourage users to test things out ahead of time (and have a flow in the app for doing that) to ensure that they'll have a good quality stream.

Finally, you can look into "Network Bonding" using an app like Speedify to combine multiple connections into one for a potentially stronger connection.

I was able to cancel my Roger Rocket hub that was costing me 300-600$ a month.

To do this, I use Speedify to create a bonded VPN connection with my Starlink + Videotron LTE phone connection.

I never drop and I use very little date during fail overs. Gaming + Video calls are flawless now.

100% worth it.. be sure to get a coupon if you register for it.

So I skimmed the post and didn't see anyone that recommended OpenMPTCProuter or speedify yet. I travel in my rv a lot and also need to work on a decent reliable connection. My setup includes a lte connection for sprint, tmobile, at&t, and 2 verizon connections, that I have bonded together with OpenMPTCProuter. I can bond all my connections together into a single big pipe at my datacenter, and get the most out of all of them.

Speedify does something similar, but doesn't allow you to use your own datacenter without paying extra. I want this option because I want to bond the connections for Netflix streaming, and speedify bypasses their service for streaming or else it gets blocked.

Both options are true bandwidth bonding instead of per session load balancing which you seem to be doing.

That's not how any of this works.

Warning: gross generalizations and layman terms ahead.

There's load balancing and there's link aggregation. Load balancing can distribute multiple transfers across multiple connections. Link aggregation can combine multiple links into a single one.

A target on the Internet has no way of knowing that multiple requests from different sources belong to the same connection. Load balancing won't increase your speed if you're downloading a file or streaming video or doing a speed test.

Link aggregation requires something on the other side to aggregate your links. If you're using regular broadband you can use a service like Speedify to solve this. The VPN on the Internet aggregates your links and then connects to the endpoints on the Internet via a single link.

First download Speedify VPN on your laptop/PC and then download connecrtify. Open speedify and setup a VPN in America or any other country that allows you to play on the casino. Then open connecrtify and create a network via speedify. Go to your ps4 and connect to that network

Real time VOIP communications is difficult without UDP, but you might be able to tunnel it using a paid VPN. These aren't our primary VPNs, but two you might wish to look at are Speedify or the cheaper Edgewise connect. The Romanian VPN company IbVPN also offers Softether and several other protocols specifically designed to break through China.

You also should consider using simplex "deltachat". Not as nice as real time, but it looks like something which would be very difficult to stop.

Some of the XMPP systems are also worth a look.

Then there is Retroshare.

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MySudo also might work in your country.

Do you have coaxial cable in your house? I highly recommend looking into a MoCa adapter if you do. I have a Motorola one set up in my house and I get almost no loss in speed or latency.

They cost about $65 each on Amazon, and you'll need at least two, one for the entry point and one for exit point

Otherwise, you can use a service called Speedify, which uses a VPN to share traffic between all your network interfaces. It's a bit hit and miss though, but it has a free trial if you want to test it out.

Só precisas de uma VPN para fazer a subscrição; no meu caso eu usei uma app para o telemóvel pq 90% das VPNs pagas fazem redirect para a netflix dos USA.

Depois podes usar cá sem VPN, todos os meses são removidos aqueles valores de TL (a moeda deles) da tua conta. A conversão deixa o preço super barato. Não sei se muda o catálogo para o da turquia, mas até agora tenho encontrado praticamente todas as séries e filmes que preciso. (Nunca tive netflix portuguesa, não faço ideia se o catálogo é diferente).

No meu caso pago quase 5€ e divido com outra pessoa, ficando a 2,5€/mês a cada. Para quatro pessoas tens que procurar na net o valor que não sei de cor.

Edit: A vpn que usei chamava-se Speedify - Bonding VPN

From my experience, you're going to have to use a proxy/vpn. You can try certain youtube video downloaders and see if they can get past the restriction. For myself, if youtube-dl recognizes that it's blocked in my country, it won't download the video.

Your best bet is to use a proxy/vpn. For myself, I just needed a VPN for a few quick tasks, so I needed something free, and Speedify worked perfectly for that because it doesn't require you to sign up. There's probably better VPNs out there, but I just needed something quick.

Yea but there is risk. Download one of the free vpn software out there (I use Speedify) and change your country to whatever you like. Then login to steam or create another account and buy the game. You can family share from then on. BE warned: I won't be responsible if they ban your account.

speedify removes our packet loss 100%, we have 0-10% from cox to fortnite.

NOW, the problem is, the legality of it. Obviously we aren't cheating but it is a VPN.

Straight from speedify:

> Yeah, we aren't clear on Fortnite's policies. I see some places where Fortnite says it can kick you from games for using a VPN or people complaining their IP address got banned for using a VPN. On the other hand, there are a lot of Speedify users saying they are using it to play Fortnite. I haven't heard of any specific examples of people getting banned from Fortnite for using Speedify, but since Speedify is a VPN, it is a possibility. I'm not sure if the people getting banned were doing something else malicious to trigger the ban. I don't have the full story on any of those cases.

I posted on epic forums, but no responses. The last thing I want is to be banned for trying to have a better connection.

Thoughts?

in the last 3 months of fortnite, i have never once seen 0% packet loss for more than a few seconds at a time. Using the Speedify trial, I logged in to a game and saw 0% packet loss for a whole minute. Going to buy it and see how it goes. I don't know much but maybe some common servers cox uses in their hop routes suck and the vpn route avoids those servers? /u/justbilled

Okay... I can understand that not having your own money can be tricky when you want to take extra security measures but don't get, and I repeat do not get free VPN. How do you think their business works? Where do you think they get money from? I'll tell you. Your data. Selling it and exploiting it. Yes, the same data you want to protect. If you don't have money to spare or cannot talk your parents into getting a proper VPN for your and their safety then at least get the one that has free plan alongside to paid ones. I myself had limited amount to spare for a VPN so I am sharing my account with my roommates by setting it up on our router and they paid their 2/3 of the plan that I got from NordVPN but before that we all were using free ProtonVPN plans which was great even if a bit limited. We also used TunnelBear before they sold themselves out and Speedify but it was quite slow (oh the irony).

I use

Just use a VPN (Speedify is an easy set-up), as rugbypass technically doesn't broadcast to Aus, so set as Singapore IP. Much much less than Foxtel, and no money to Murdoch, plus all European games etc. Very happy camper

I purchased it myself and I've been using it for a week. I had purchased CyberGhost from Humble Bundle last year for $5 for a year and year before that Speedify vpn for $9 for a year. If you keep an eye out for bundled deals like this you never have to pay hundreds of dollars for VPN's.

That's a great point. Comcast deliberately slows down Netflix because getting money from subscribers isn't enough for them.

Hiding your traffic as encrypted unknown traffic with a smaller entity means that Comcast can't put the effort into specifically throttling it. That means your Netflix will come through quicker as they don't know it is Netflix traffic.

I'd use the sliders to pay only for Speedify if you buy this. All that other stuff is a thin layer of shit on functionality that's already provided in the operating system.

edit: Speedify seems slow, maybe too slow for media (i.e. Netflix) tunnelling. If you try to torrent they make you reconnect to a different server. I tried downloading a Linux ISO and I'm getting 1.2MBps vs 3.00MBps on a super sketchy Russian VPN. Still probably worth the beat the average price.

edit: And their redemption method seems to have a huge security hole in it. People could easily redeem for free. They must know that given how obvious the hole is.

Ja, und das wird auch jeder andere anständige VPN.

Allerdings gibt es gerade das Humble Software Bundle mit, neben einer Menge Schrott, einem 1-Jahres-Abo für Speedify für ca. 7€. Es ist etwas schwer zu sagen, ob sie für Torrenting und Streaming geeignet sind, da sie auch selber von sich behaupten, "mehr auf Geschwindigkeit als auf Privatsphäre" zu setzen, aber die Software erlaubt die Auswahl von extra P2P-Servern in den Niederlanden. Ich würde einfach mal behaupten, dass man damit auf der sicheren Seite sein sollte?

> 2.. wifi's? > > You mean 2 different Wifi-Networks with different Internet-accesses?

Yes

> You can split and merge traffic with various tools. (a server outside is necessary to recombine the streams)

Not an option at the moment.

> And there is a service-provider that worked quite well for me in the past: Speedify.

will try it

Interesting solution and nice implementation. Although, with Linux there's no need to pay for the Speedify VPN service, since channel/network bonding is available natively in the kernel for a long time, now. Very easy to install and configure.

Yes is has a cost, but if you only route the necessary traffic via SFC it should last you a while.. 2.5 TB a year for 80.. the Balance X20 comes with 500GB for the first year... If you can work out with Speedify what you need I guess would be cheaper.. was a no go for me due to the limitation on gaming for my son...

I'm having trouble finding a good comparison between the two. Peplink looks like it's on the expense side though. From what I've been able to gather, the cheapest router I can get would be the Balance 20 ( Speedify on the other hand has unlimited data.

So how bad is it to use the signal? Obviously you're going to have problems but I bet it'd work for streaming video with enough buffering. Web surfing, for that matter, if you're patient.

Do you have any other backup ISP option, maybe cellular tethering? One option would be to use Speedify to bond Starlink to the other connection. It won't be awesome but it'll hide the worst of the network failures and make a reasonably usable connection. There's a free trial you can try it with.

Much the same down here at 35.1. It seems a bit better lately, but I'm in the habit of enabling Speedify if I know I'll be using VoIP/Zoom/Teams heavily that day. Reading about it improving makes me optimistic for a day I won't need to.

Speedify uses a VPN but that doesn't mean that the connection is encrypted and they don't keep logs of what you do on the internet, they just use the VPN to aggregate the connections.

So if you like using vpns to keep your connection private and secure you should use a reliable VPN on top of Speedify.

Yes.

The issue with WAN failover is that the WAN addresses are different so apps can't transition easily from one to the other (they look different from the server providing the service). Mobile apps are usually pretty good at dealing with this (they are used to frequent Cellular-Wi-Fi transitions). PC apps not nearly as much.

Speedify solves this by maintaining 2 VPNs (one per connection) and exiting the traffic to the Internet from one address. Then they can more transparently pick one connection or both at any time. That's not something you can do on your side. You need some service out on the Internet to do it.

Bell Mobility internet here only provides 5 down, 1 up which doesn't work well for online gaming. And Starlink packet loss when changing satellites also causes issues.

So, I use the Speedify VPN to tether my Starlink and Bell Mobility connections together to prevent the packet loss/latency from disconnecting me from my online games.

There is some lag when those periodic hiccups occurs but it keeps me in game. Until the packet loss thing resolves, I'll probably continue to use the Speedify service.

I've been using Speedify since late April, and it definitely helps. It's not perfect, but that could be because my secondary connection isn't all that great either. But it was a lot cheaper than any router, and is fairly well spoken of here.

Do you depend on your home Internet to make a living? Do you hate being on hold with an ISP just to be told they know about the outage and are working on it? Will you or anyone in your house be annoyed if the Internet goes down for a few hours or days?

If the answer to any of those questions is “yes”, then do both. Order Starlink now and get Comcast service when it’s available. Set up something like Speedify or Peplink Fusion to run across multiple providers. Then when (not if, WHEN) either of your Internet services goes down you won’t even notice, much less be frustrated or annoyed or have to spend time worrying about it.

Another West Michigander. Went up in Feb, and rough first few months with outages. Anywhere between 10-80 outages an hour. Found solutions to bridge this time: Speedify, taking audio on video calls on my phone, even just using my phone for video calls.

24 hours have been amazing, and it looks like it's turning in a great direction. 1-5 outages an hour with 2-3 hours clean. Small amount of east obstructions on my site. The promise is feeling real.

My speeds probably average 60dl/25ul, but have been all over the place, highest is around 240dl currently.

Laptop, seems to be a more flexible encoding solution and we don't need the robustness of a specialist hardware unit.

Speedify just bonds what you give it? Like 2 USB cellular modems hooked up to a laptop and away you go?

Double this. I quit using Speedify entirely over the last two weeks and it's been fine. Still the occasional few seconds dropout with 8X8 Work and GotoMeeting using both video and voice, but a huge improvement over the months previous. Not perfect yet, but not enough of an annoyance to worry about.

Although no idea why it works this way, but VPN solves it. Once you get past the screen once you won’t need to anymore until another reinstall. iOS i used Speedify, and Android I used Thunder VPN. These are all free VPN with low speed, but serves our purpose here.

Don’t know if listing actual names is allowed here hopefully I don’t get banned lol...

>Hoping for a cheaper solution than the $1k~ Speedify wants for a Dedicated server and Port Forwarding

If their standard service doesn't allow port forwards then you can set up a tunnel to a server on the Internet with a public ipv4 address and forward the port. (This is a common solution when you don't have a public ipv4 address and can't forward ports.) Assuming you can configure a tunnel inside the speedify tunnel.

It's good to know what you need and then set up Speedify to work accordingly. I like having Starlink as the primary connection due to the speed. But when it drops, my tethered cellular connection provides the best upload speed for backup. I can also add my ATT Fixed Wireless as that has a better download speed than my cell. My last few calls have been very good, no drops. You will need to pay for a mobile hot spot plan for your phone to tether in some cases. For me, on ATT, it's $5 a month extra.

Just replying to say that the experience varies drastically right now. For example, I regularly have zero downtime over a 12 hour period. I’ve been racing using StarLink since February with minimal issues. I still use Speedify with my phone connected to my rig PC as failover just in case, but it’s rare to need it.

Thanks. Just knowing it happens elsewhere is enough for me to push this back to 'mildly interesting, no action needed.' On a guess, I bet that the webserver process that serves up that page is at the bottom of the onboard CPU's list of things to do. Off to chase other squirrels, like why MS365 authentication connects just started failing on StarLink but work when Speedify is added. Oh, the joys of beta testing.

Reliability is its worst trait currently. Awesome speed, great for streaming, large downloads and general browsing/email. Not reliable at all for online calls or live anything. Just had an hour with 115 outages. Have had hours with zero to three outages. You certainly can't rely on it in its current phase. That said, I have used a bonded connection with Speedify that keeps me connected on live calls with freezing from time to time. The good news? This can all change with updated firmware and more satellites. In two months, reliability could be a non-issue. So jump in, but have a good back up plan, even if it costs more for a few months. It will all be worth it in the near future.

I'm in SW MICH, and it's been challenging with an average of 40 drops an hour. But, the range is wild. I've had some hours with only 1 or 2, and then others with 60+.

I would ditto what's been said earlier, hang in there with the beta. It's definitely improving and more satellites will only help. It's getting better for me just in the last few weeks. I use Speedify to bond connections to my cell phone when I want to ensure stability on a call or an online game.

Those drops have made gaming hard for me too, even less intensive games like World of Warcraft. I use Speedify to paper over it to some extent, but that still requires your backup ISP link. Honestly I just switch to the other ISP when I want the best gaming experience.

This will eventually get better as Starlink deployment increases.

Agreed that Speedify software isn’t perfect. But also agreed their price is right. The nearest generally-available commercial consumer competition I’ve found seems to be Peplink Speedfusion, and that’s a $900 license option on a $400 Balance One router (), plus a $500 license and an ongoing virtual private server cost at (e.g.) Digital Ocean or AWS. might also be an emerging Open Source option.

Speedify helps with some CDN’s, now accepts SRT as input, and restreams as normal rtmp server side. These are cheaper solutions. You can go full bonded from pepwave,liveU, Dejero, treadle vidiugo there’s a few out there at much higher price points. I’d start with the cheaper options first. Move up from there. vMix basic HD allows SRT out, and having a matching just for that isn’t a bad thing.

Depending on when I get Starlink my DSL contract runs until the end of the year so I’ll have some redundancy (will probably opt for Speedify or similar) and then all being well by end of 2021 the redundancy shouldn’t really be required. Might pan out quite well.

Just my 2 cents....Speedify is the ideal solution in theory but they also have server slowdown issues. Sometimes they perform perfectly, sometimes they half my internet speed.

I am using a pfsense VM feeding into a Windows VM running Speedify. Definitely less than ideal but it was a proof of concept thing. Although it could be some setting in pfsense set incorrectly but god only knows what it would be.

Anyway...I agree it can be helpful if you can route all streaming traffic around the Speedify VPN. Also, try to purchase their connectify software first. It gave me a deal for less than $20 for the connectify software with 6 months of Speedify.

I have a real need for this right now with my new Starlink setup. During the beta period it's unreliable; you get a bunch of 5 second outages an hour. Otherwise it's great. Some folks are having luck with Speedify to bond a second ISP link and smooth over the problems. I haven't tried it yet; it seems like a good product and not too expensive, so it may be hard to compete.

I think a whole lot of rural folks would like an easy way to have an LTE backup to whatever their primary link is. That exists in a lot of router products but they don't work great.

This already exists. Load sharing exists and is free to operate just buy the hardware. I use a USG-3P and can load share / failover.

For bonding,

Or you can buy the bonding vpn service from Speedify.

I'm getting crushed the last couple of days. Generally I run about 5-10 disconnects an hour. Yesterday, was close to 30 an hour. Today jumped to around 1 a minute, 45-50 an hour. My Speedify is juggling plates trying to keep me connected on Zoom. I have about 10 minutes NoSats and 4 minutes Beta right now. I almost never have NoSats timeouts before yesterday (3.7). I do have the most current firmware.

^^ Agree with above.

Load balancing also is not 100% guaranteed. Some sites/apps/games do not play well getting traffic from multiple IPs.

Banking for example. Will most likely kick you out if you are trying to connect from two IPs. Gaming servers may not allow it either.

One way would be to tunnel both connections to a VPN that would make the end servers see it as 1 IP. Look up Speedify.

SW Michigan around 42.3. Speeds averaging around 60dl/12 up. Have seen as high as 150dl, and as low as 10dl. Lot of variability in the speeds, but all are pretty wonderful. My issue has been the frequent disconnects with Zoom calls. I now use Speedify to switch over to my cell phone hot spot, and that is keeping me connected with an occasional hiccup. Have to restart Amazon a few times a day as it disconnects. The disconnects are a problem with my Mom's captioned phone, so we keep her on the hot spot for that. Long story short, it's amazing, but it's a beta. Consider what you need to count on regarding disconnects and either find workarounds, or wait until it's out of beta.

I have both in my house. I have three ISPs and I have 2 of them load balanced through a dual WAN router and I have a Speedify account that I use for video conference calls or if I just want to download something extra fast.

Dual WAN doesn't merge the feeds (unless you are a networking wizard and implement a bunch of GIT packages). It just does failover and load balancing but that sounds like it is all you need. I find Speedify adds about 30ms to my latency.

I would like the IPs to stay the same, and actually I like the idea of running my own tunnel (I already run my own Kubernetes clusters, AWS architecture, etc.). It sounds like SpeedFusion/pepwave are similar to the connection bonding I was describing with Speedify (their dedicated IP solution costs ~$300 a year, and I don’t trust their security, which is why I’d prefer to self-host). I just started looking into FusionHub Solo and it sounds like the right solution, but still reading... any further insights appreciated ;)

I use both Speedify and a multi WAN router. I have three ISPs...

Telus DSL 10mbps down 1 mbps up (low latency)

Velocity (microwave towers) ~20mbps down 3mbps up (medium latency)

Starlink usually about 50mbps down and 15mbps up (medium latency)

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I have the Telus and Velocity on a multiWAN router. Unfortunately, the Starlink comes into the house in a different area and I can't easily get it to that router. So I use Speedify to combine it with the others.

The downside of Speedify is that is does add some additional latency which is noticeable for gaming. But it is incredible for bandwidth.

If possible, I would suggest using a multi WAN router but Speedify is good if you can't connect both ISPs to the same router.

Thanks for the tip, I've never heard of Speedify before this. I just pre-ordered Starlink. I have "free" internet at the RV park I'm at and looking to upgrade, but maybe I can augment it instead of just replacing it.

I have been using Speedify for years (although not with Starlink) and I haven't noticed any problems with video calls using MS Teams. Indeed, it prioritises the streaming traffic. Obviously your mileage may vary but that is my experience. I certainly think that it is a strong contender for those that have at least some other form of basic connectivity and are trying to use starlink for work during the beta phase.

I use Speedify + Starlink + my LTE phone to created a bonded VPN connection that does not drop when my Starlink drops for those short intervals.

I can game for hours on end now, no worries of disconnect.

I do have good LTE signal where I am... it's just $$$$ to use it as a primary connection. But it's fine for the < 1% failover traffic.

Speedify is free to try and has a life time membership of like $20 that also includes connectify.

Prices may have changed but that's about what I paid a few years ago then decided I hated the extreme speed reduction

You can't bond two connections like that. You also can't keep the IP of one while perusing the other. You need Speedify or something similar to have a reliable connection that ends with your public IP and you connect to the other end of that with either one (or both) of your connections.

You can only do basic failover in-house, bonding or failover without IP change will require a service like Speedify.

You have no idea how much people in rural areas are willing to pay for decent internet, or the lengths they’ll go through. Speedify does a great job of abstracting the technical details away, and is very consumer-oriented. As for price, I’ve seen folks pay hundreds per month for pretty mediocre service because it’s the only way they can get anything working.

But keep talking out your ass, and keep it up with your racist comments about off-shore TACs.

Has anyone documented their experience with Speedify? I have been hacking together an OpenWRT based router solution that will hopefully (assuming I can get it working) use application-aware routing to select the best ISP for a given application. So, for instance, I am hoping to combine satellite with a cellular plan that has a monthly data limit. I wonder if Speedify can be used to accomplish this same thing?

T-mobile, family plan. I use PdaNet to tether & slide the cap then Speedify to merge them into a single connection. There may be bailing twine involved but it gets me up to around 8-10 on a good day.

If it’s the dumping a tonne of money that’s putting you off, Speedify will do you a bonded link for cheap - but you’ll have to build the hardware side of things yourself. Raspberry Pis with cellular connections etc.

Well there are multiple Bonding VPN Services by now. Entirely software based like Speedify, simple bonding implemented in Routers or a combination of Hard- & Software the likes of Peplink offers.

Speed depends on the location. With consumer LTE Routers I usually get upload speeds between 15 and 60 MBit/s up. Download Speeds improved radically this year. Depending on the carrier and were I'm located at the moment I get can get up to 200 Mbit/s down via a single LTE-A connection. Some carriers are offering unlimited data day passes for a low daily fee.

Opera browser ile gelen default VPN calısıyor direk. Speedify var ama ben beles kullanıyorum o yuzden GB kısıtlaması var ama cok nadir actıgım icin sorun olmuyor. Bunları kullanırken guvenlik garantisi veremem tabi girdigin siteler, bilgilerin vs. calınabilir ona gore. Internetten zaman zaman baska VPNler bulup kullanmıstım ama isimlerini hatırlamıyorum.

Bunların calısması icin driverlarının aktif olup, pcnin izin vermesi gerekiyor. Yuklerken sorması lazım sana. Onun ayarı yapılmadıysa, windows firewall vs. blokluyor olabilir.

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For 2+ users, I think you can create your own portable server using Raspberry Pi. Speedify has a Linux client, and you can use it to bond the network connections in Raspberry.

All your devices can connect to Raspberry, and Raspberry will then connect to Speedify. Speedify takes care of combining all your network connection.

I want to try it, but I have trouble obtaining LTE shields/HATs since I'm from the Philippines (ie, delivery fees cost more than the item itself).

I've only tried Raspberry Pi with OpenVPN. I used it as a VPN server for my laptop and desktop at home.

As for standout portable modems, I'm still deciding between TP-Link m7650 or Netgear Nighthawk m2. Huawei B818 also looks like a good option for non-portable setups.

Try Speedify. You only get 2GB with free account, but unlike other trial editions ALL servers in Speedify are open for trial users.

So, you can directly select SG server and take a look around. 2GB means you can play for at least 5+ days. If you feel like playing in SEA then you can invest in VPN premium.

I've tried looking for the login info and the Altice website says it lists them, but nothing is there.😅 As far as modem stats go, I'm not entirely sure I follow what you mean. I've done speed tests and have my phone connected to the wifi with an app called Speedify running in the background that tells me if there's any loss or anything like that and the speed is on point. Just keeps randomly disconnecting.

As Mrbeyond13 said in his message, Speedify. It let me download the game just fine.

Start the VPN, login into Steam, start downloading the game and uninstall the VPN, because his job is already done at that point.

I had exactly the same problem and recently solved it. You can install a VPN and hotspot software on a laptop, then connect the Switch to the hotspot. I used Connectify and Speedify which changed the NAT type to type B.

Alternatively you might be able to change the NAT type directly using your router. I wasn’t able to do this as my router is a 4G hotspot router, so it depends

Hello, change your region to Russia in settings. Download the free VPN Speedify, from playstore. Then connect to the Russian server, (in Speedify VPN App) choose Moscow, (server) then go to Software update in settings click on update. Worked for me, hope this helps? 👍