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As far as I know this is a DIY solution for what companies sell as a "bonded" internet connection..? I spent weeks trying to get a reliable setup for streaming

As far as I know this is a DIY solution for what companies sell as a "bonded" internet connection..? I spent weeks trying to get a reliable setup for streaming concerts in HD from all varieties of spotty WiFi and 4G hotspots. The streaming server wouldn't accept packets that seemed to come from totally different IP addresses so there had to be an intermediate proxy server in the cloud that would re-assemble the data from my various connections. I was able to get it working and it would have been great for normal Internet usage, but I never found a reliable system for streaming. That was about a year and a half ago. I would love to see this technology mature to the point where it worked well for streaming.

drdaeman 13y ago
From a quick glance over the code, it just seem to proxy TCP streams over one channel or another, probabilistically. Most trivial form of load balancing possible. This approach certainly won't work for typical media streaming, as it usually uses a single connection. Particularly, because streaming over multiple connections is tricky because as they don't guarantee delivery order, so you'll probably get your packets "scrambled" and will have to reorder them by yourself (implementing your own flow control).