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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.

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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.

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.

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.

> 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_exp...

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

SpeedFusion is one alternative

https://estore.peplink.com/categories/speedfusion-cloud/spee...

We use to use Peplink at a company I worked at

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

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

Yup. My bonder virtual machine is running Ubuntu + Speedify.

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.

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

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.

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.

Does Speedify have any plans to support FreeBSD? It's still used pretty heavily over Linux in the router space.

Huh, I looked but didn't see anything on your pricing pages about the free tier, just the 30 day free trial.

Oh, yeah, sorry, I guess that's not so clear. Just install, and you start on the free tier.

It's way too expensive tho.

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