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There's a number of 5G/LTE solutions that are designed with this sort of connection bonding in mind at relatively affordable prices. I'm retrofitting a teardrop

There's a number of 5G/LTE solutions that are designed with this sort of connection bonding in mind at relatively affordable prices. I'm retrofitting a teardrop camper for remote work in the boonies and settled on a Pepwave device+external antenna radome that supports dual active LTE (with 2 SIMs per provider - so you can double up on 'lines' and effectively double your data allotment) and will bond those alongside any other connectivity that happens to be available (wired uplink, WLAN bridge etc). It even does packet inspection so you can elect to route high-priority traffic (e.g. conference calling/video meetings) over the bonded route while allowing less important traffic to use your default route. Very useful when you've got one LTE provider that's 'unlimited' and another that's not. You can either use their hosted offering for the bonding 'endpoint', or deploy your own with a free virtual appliance pretty much anywhere. Proprietary...but it just works. No futzing around with software on endpoints.

Nexxxeh 4y ago
I did look at the low-end PepWave offerings but was put off by the pricing, especially when combined with their hosted VPN pricing. I might have misunderstood, but for the bonding feature without setting up my own VPN server in a datacentre it looked like it would require SpeedFusion Cloud product at $589 for every 20TB I transfer. I'd easily hit that in a year at home. That's more than my unlimited fixed line, my primary unlimited 4G/5G, my 15GB per month secondary 4G/5G, my 50GB per year emergency backup 4G/5G (on a third cellular network), and Speedify, per year combined. And if I'm willing to set-up a hosted VPN server, I may as well just set up a local Speedify router instead. I couldn't see the option for redundancy either, where the same traffic is pumped through both lossy interfaces which is especially useful at the edges for 4G coverage, like when IRL streaming in spotty reception. I can see PepWave would have its use-cases, especially for businesses that can justify the expense. But for me it was less flexible and orders of magnitude more expensive. [Edit after sithadmin replied: I think PepWave devices support redundancy as "WAN Smoothing".]
- sithadmin 4y ago
  Their hosted VPN (FusionHub) service pricing is indeed quite insane. For my use case, I'm using a pretty minimal amount of bandwidth, so I've just deployed my own FusionHub Solo instance.

Nexxxeh 4y ago

I did look at the low-end PepWave offerings but was put off by the pricing, especially when combined with their hosted VPN pricing. I might have misunderstood, but for the bonding feature without setting up my own VPN server in a datacentre it looked like it would require SpeedFusion Cloud product at $589 for every 20TB I transfer. I'd easily hit that in a year at home. That's more than my unlimited fixed line, my primary unlimited 4G/5G, my 15GB per month secondary 4G/5G, my 50GB per year emergency backup 4G/5G (on a third cellular network), and Speedify, per year combined. And if I'm willing to set-up a hosted VPN server, I may as well just set up a local Speedify router instead. I couldn't see the option for redundancy either, where the same traffic is pumped through both lossy interfaces which is especially useful at the edges for 4G coverage, like when IRL streaming in spotty reception. I can see PepWave would have its use-cases, especially for businesses that can justify the expense. But for me it was less flexible and orders of magnitude more expensive. [Edit after sithadmin replied: I think PepWave devices support redundancy as "WAN Smoothing".]

sithadmin 4y ago
Their hosted VPN (FusionHub) service pricing is indeed quite insane. For my use case, I'm using a pretty minimal amount of bandwidth, so I've just deployed my own FusionHub Solo instance.