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this is a terrible solution to anything except guest wireless networks

• mlyle 3y ago
  ? I'm not sure you understand. If you have a device that can use cellular and wifi, it has to figure out when it should be sending packets over wifi, or when it should give up and send packets over cellular. MPTCP isn't mature or a good approach for this yet (and may never be), but it could present a way to smoothly roam between wifi and cellular. Imagine walking across a big campus, and having your device keep a network connection up seamlessly as you lose wifi between buildings. Whether solved via overlay networks, or a clientside protocol like MPTCP-- this is a service networks should provide. Unfortunately, we've got no way to roam except within a single network (wifi roaming; satellite handoff; cellular handoff).