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Never knew Speedify was a thing. What a great idea and I’m sure something that is standard in industrial applications or LTE routers.

nathanyz 5y ago
Makes Multipath TCP actually usable in the real world. Great product that not enough people know about.
donkarma 5y ago
I just stumbled onto Speedify a few minutes before I noticed this article surprisingly. I wanted to try it but unfortunately it doesn't take crypto and has no free trial
- shkkmo 5y ago
  That's a shame. They used to have a free trial with a data cap which I used intermittently while traveling for years before converting to a paying customer a year ago. Maybe they looked at their numbers amd couldn't didn't see the free tier paying for itself in conversions, but it did convert me.
  - AlexGizis 5y ago
    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), it was just too common for Linux users to trick us into endlessly starting the 2GB over. I think there was a script for automating it making the rounds on some sites.
    - shkkmo 5y ago
      Huh, I looked but didn't see anything on your pricing pages about the free tier, just the 30 day free trial.
      - AlexGizis 5y ago
        Oh, yeah, sorry, I guess that's not so clear. Just install, and you start on the free tier.
    - aaronfitz 5y ago
      Does Speedify have any plans to support FreeBSD? It's still used pretty heavily over Linux in the router space.
phh 5y ago
AFAIK multi-path is not too common, though most people who do multipath are using MPTCP. Last I checked, It's part of LTE standard, but used exclusively in South Korea. Some providers across the world provide multi-path gateways: in France, OVH has OverTheBox which is line-provider agnostic, Free has ADSL+4G aggregation where fiber isn't available. In Switzerland, Swisscom also has some multi-path offer. Also, Apple's Siri uses MPTCP. (And developers love the fact that only Siri can use it, and not other apps). Google/Android said no to MPTCP, saying QUIC/HTTP3 already has the provisions needed to do multipath, but I don't know if Google actually uses it somewhere.
- mwint 5y ago
  > and not other apps Looks like there’s been an API for at least a few years. http://blog.multipath-tcp.org/blog/html/2017/07/05/mptcp_experiments_on_ios_11_beta.html http://blog.multipath-tcp.org/blog/html/2017/07/05/mptcp_exp...
- lapinot 5y ago
  From experience, Free's ADSL+4G aggregation is stupid. The router needs ADSL to be up all the time and aggregation is unpredictable and opaque. Being the carrier for both ADSL and 4G would've enabled them to do multi-path magic and assign the same IP to both endpoints yet they don't. It seems to be basic bonding.
- m0dest 5y ago
  QUIC has some basic features for migrating a session to another link, but it doesn't support multipath in that sense. Multipath QUIC (MPQUIC) is a hot research area right now, and it's being standardized. MPTCP's design was fundamentally incompatible with QUIC's UDP transport and session model. From what I understand, neither MPTCP nor MPQUIC are designed to share multipath routing via a gateway (e.g. a bunch of devices sharing a multipath aggregation of 3 4G modems). It's all designed for a single device with multiple interfaces.
nsonha 5y ago
I was wondering about this exact same thing the other day. Working from home makes my mobile data go wasted every month. I actually have a company phone in addition to a personal one.
thrashh 5y ago
SpeedFusion is one alternative https://estore.peplink.com/categories/speedfusion-cloud/speedfusion-cloud https://estore.peplink.com/categories/speedfusion-cloud/spee... We use to use Peplink at a company I worked at
- ghuntley 5y ago
  If someone at Peplink wants to send me a router; I'd love to try it out. https://ghuntley.com/contact https://ghuntley.com/contact
tenebrisalietum 5y ago
SD-WAN for consumers? Reviewing the documentation a little it seems like it's installable on a Debian box.
- ghuntley 5y ago
  Yup. My bonder virtual machine is running Ubuntu + Speedify.
goodpoint 5y ago
It's way too expensive tho.

nathanyz 5y ago

Makes Multipath TCP actually usable in the real world. Great product that not enough people know about.

donkarma 5y ago

I just stumbled onto Speedify a few minutes before I noticed this article surprisingly. I wanted to try it but unfortunately it doesn't take crypto and has no free trial

shkkmo 5y ago
That's a shame. They used to have a free trial with a data cap which I used intermittently while traveling for years before converting to a paying customer a year ago. Maybe they looked at their numbers amd couldn't didn't see the free tier paying for itself in conversions, but it did convert me.
- AlexGizis 5y ago
  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), it was just too common for Linux users to trick us into endlessly starting the 2GB over. I think there was a script for automating it making the rounds on some sites.
  - shkkmo 5y ago
    Huh, I looked but didn't see anything on your pricing pages about the free tier, just the 30 day free trial.
    - AlexGizis 5y ago
      Oh, yeah, sorry, I guess that's not so clear. Just install, and you start on the free tier.
  - aaronfitz 5y ago
    Does Speedify have any plans to support FreeBSD? It's still used pretty heavily over Linux in the router space.

phh 5y ago

AFAIK multi-path is not too common, though most people who do multipath are using MPTCP. Last I checked, It's part of LTE standard, but used exclusively in South Korea. Some providers across the world provide multi-path gateways: in France, OVH has OverTheBox which is line-provider agnostic, Free has ADSL+4G aggregation where fiber isn't available. In Switzerland, Swisscom also has some multi-path offer. Also, Apple's Siri uses MPTCP. (And developers love the fact that only Siri can use it, and not other apps). Google/Android said no to MPTCP, saying QUIC/HTTP3 already has the provisions needed to do multipath, but I don't know if Google actually uses it somewhere.

mwint 5y ago
> and not other apps Looks like there’s been an API for at least a few years. http://blog.multipath-tcp.org/blog/html/2017/07/05/mptcp_experiments_on_ios_11_beta.html http://blog.multipath-tcp.org/blog/html/2017/07/05/mptcp_exp...
lapinot 5y ago
From experience, Free's ADSL+4G aggregation is stupid. The router needs ADSL to be up all the time and aggregation is unpredictable and opaque. Being the carrier for both ADSL and 4G would've enabled them to do multi-path magic and assign the same IP to both endpoints yet they don't. It seems to be basic bonding.
m0dest 5y ago
QUIC has some basic features for migrating a session to another link, but it doesn't support multipath in that sense. Multipath QUIC (MPQUIC) is a hot research area right now, and it's being standardized. MPTCP's design was fundamentally incompatible with QUIC's UDP transport and session model. From what I understand, neither MPTCP nor MPQUIC are designed to share multipath routing via a gateway (e.g. a bunch of devices sharing a multipath aggregation of 3 4G modems). It's all designed for a single device with multiple interfaces.

nsonha 5y ago

I was wondering about this exact same thing the other day. Working from home makes my mobile data go wasted every month. I actually have a company phone in addition to a personal one.

thrashh 5y ago

SpeedFusion is one alternative https://estore.peplink.com/categories/speedfusion-cloud/speedfusion-cloud https://estore.peplink.com/categories/speedfusion-cloud/spee... We use to use Peplink at a company I worked at

ghuntley 5y ago
If someone at Peplink wants to send me a router; I'd love to try it out. https://ghuntley.com/contact https://ghuntley.com/contact

tenebrisalietum 5y ago

SD-WAN for consumers? Reviewing the documentation a little it seems like it's installable on a Debian box.

ghuntley 5y ago
Yup. My bonder virtual machine is running Ubuntu + Speedify.

goodpoint 5y ago

It's way too expensive tho.