10 Internet Connections At Same Time

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10 Internet Connections At Same Time

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday August 21, 2012 @06:19AM from the for-when-nine-just-don't-cut-it dept.

An anonymous reader writes "As a follow-up to the story about Verizon being forced to allow tethering, the engineers at Connectify climbed on the roof and made a video showing an 85Mbps download rate through a combination of a tethered Verizon mobile phone and all of the available open Wi-Fi networks. It's a darn shame that they cancelled the unlimited 3G on the Kindle; tether 20 of those bad boys and you could have had a real Internet connection."

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Can't use it like one connection by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-21 06:27 · Score: 5, Insightful

You need a node on the internet that can split a single connection and send the data down the separate links. Otherwise those are just 10 separate internet connections that can only be used for separate transfers.
Besides, if you were to use 20 3G connections at a time, you'd see significant slowdown per connection as these are in competition for the shared medium.
1. Re:Can't use it like one connection by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-21 06:38 · Score: 3, Informative
  
  It looks like they're using Free Download Manager on top of their connection software in the video (http://www.freedownloadmanager.org/) In that case, those separate Internet connections could speed up even a single download quite a bit. My impression of 3G is that the fairness is set up so that a lot of connections per tower can get the expected download rates at the same time, no?
2. Re:Can't use it like one connection by funwithBSD · 2012-08-21 07:08 · Score: 2
  
  And the latency does not get any better, which sucks on 3G and 4G.
  
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3. Re:Can't use it like one connection by Lennie · 2012-08-21 07:10 · Score: 2
  
  There is a big chance that will change in the future though. What do you think of Multi Path TCP ?
  short demo:
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWN0ctPi5cw
  Longer presentation:
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02nBaaIoFWU
  IETF WorkGroup:
  http://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/mptcp/charter/
  Linux kernel implementation:
  http://mptcp.info.ucl.ac.be/
  
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4. Re:Can't use it like one connection by cayenne8 · 2012-08-21 08:27 · Score: 2
  
  Looking at the kickstarter deal...it appears that you do not buy this software, but you only get annual rentals of it??
  The add seems to indicate you get a years license for the 'software router'.....
  Is this what others are seeing too?
  
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5. Re:Can't use it like one connection by ZorinLynx · 2012-08-21 09:38 · Score: 2
  
  It will, you just have to set up your DHCP server to assign the same IP address to both the MAC address of your wifi interface and wired interface.
  I do this on my Macbook Pro. At home I can move seamlessly between Wifi and wired without missing a beat, even mid-transfer.
Re:Wasn't it limited? by sexconker · 2012-08-21 06:27 · Score: 4, Informative

Nope, the old Kindle's have a rudimentary web browser you can enable in one of the settings menus. Works fine on 3G.
What would you do if you had a million dollars? by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-21 06:27 · Score: 5, Funny

I'll tell you what I'd do, man: 10 internet connections at the same time, man.
1. Re:What would you do if you had a million dollars? by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-21 06:38 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  I'd probably have to pay 45% in total taxes, "fees" and "surcharges".
  No, at a million dollars the tax rate goes down to 13%.
2. Re:What would you do if you had a million dollars? by somarilnos · 2012-08-21 06:45 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  And I think if I was a millionaire I could hook that up, too, 'cause internet connections dig dudes with money.
3. Re:What would you do if you had a million dollars? by Samantha+Wright · 2012-08-21 07:02 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  You know what I would do if I had a million dollars? I would invest half of it in low risk dark fiber and then take the other half over to my friend Asadulah who works in software...
  
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4. Re:What would you do if you had a million dollars? by KhabaLox · 2012-08-21 08:08 · Score: 2
  
  Are you arguing for a regressive tax system?
  Can't tell if young, naive pseudo-libertarian or just trolling.
  
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5. Re:What would you do if you had a million dollars? by h4rr4r · 2012-08-21 08:09 · Score: 4, Insightful
  
  Yes, I actually do buy cars based on a calculation of a percentage of income.
  The rich paying less percentage tax is just that, them paying less tax than they should be paying. The fact that the number is still higher has no impact.
6. Re:What would you do if you had a million dollars? by Jeng · 2012-08-21 08:17 · Score: 4, Insightful
  
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Bring me Google Fiber by Picass0 · 2012-08-21 06:32 · Score: 2, Insightful

The reason you need to jump through hoops like this video only underscores how crappy internet service is in the US.
1. Re:Bring me Google Fiber by gl4ss · 2012-08-21 06:43 · Score: 2
  
  But even still imagine using Dispatch with TEN Google Fiber connections :)
  This technology probably still works outside the US.
  you need some point to aggregate to that has a fast link though too. but the tech itself isn't that new idea. what's puzzling about the demo is why they didn't do it with 10 verizon links to achieve something 100mbit+.
  you see, if you got wifi in there.. just one decent wifi link to a decent office connection could do that 80mbit/s.
  
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2. Re:Bring me Google Fiber by cpu6502 · 2012-08-21 06:54 · Score: 5, Insightful
  
  >>>how crappy internet service is in the US.
  Oh look.
  A member of the Entitlement Generation complaining "oh the U.S. is so sucky" while the other 6 billion people live on less than 10 dollars a week. It's like listening to a member of the elite bitch-and-moan that he's only in the top 1% of the wealthiest instead of the 0.1% wealthiest.
  FACT: The average U.S. speed is EQUAL to the average EU speed. That's right: Our cousins in the European Union have it No better than we Americans. Sure they have some states that are better, but they also have some crappy states (like Greece, Spain) that are a mere 1-2 Mbit/s.
  The only continent-spanning union that is faster is the Russian Federation (+2 Mbit/s faster than EU or US). But the U.S. average is faster than Canada. Faster than Mexico. Faster than China. Faster than Brazil. Faster than Australia. Faster than India.
  
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3. Re:Bring me Google Fiber by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-21 07:23 · Score: 2, Interesting
  
  Oh look.
  A member of the Entitlement Generation complaining "oh the U.S. is so sucky" while the other 6 billion people live on less than 10 dollars a week.
  Oh look, a member of the "you have no right to complain about anything" generation. I'm guessing you're a Baby Boomer, that generation that had as children the best mix of right and left ideas, who when they grew up into the political thinkers of the 80's who decided the rest of us weren't entitled to that.
  Generational bigotry works both ways.
4. Re:Bring me Google Fiber by pjt33 · 2012-08-21 07:25 · Score: 4, Informative
  
  Sure they have some states that are better, but they also have some crappy states (like Greece, Spain) that are a mere 1-2 Mbit/s.
  Source? I'm in Spain and I could have 50Mbit/s if I switched to ONO. (I can't be bothered: 20Mb/s with Jazztel is good enough for me). Maybe it's 2Mb/s if you average over everyone, including those who choose to live so far out in the sticks that they don't have running water, but I'd like to see the figures.
5. Re:Bring me Google Fiber by camperdave · 2012-08-21 07:33 · Score: 2
  
  Considering the planet only has slightly over 6 billion inhabitants ....
  Um... A billion people would like to have a word with you and your decades old statistics.
  
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6. Re:Bring me Google Fiber by Picass0 · 2012-08-21 07:46 · Score: 2, Insightful
  
  I'm going to go out on a limb and guess than since I'm 44 years old there's a good chance older than you, so don't talk down to me like I'm your junior.
  I didn't burn a flag so stop implying things about my political leanings. I only said internet speeds in the US don't fare well against benchmarks from around the world and that's the truth. That will change if Google Fiber goes widespread.
  Stop injecting politics into crap that's not political. I'm not alone in being sick of people talk like they're on a cable TV debate program. I was discussing internet bandwidth, not the November general election.
  If I were eating and said "MMM, good cheeseburger!" you'll find a f'ing way to make it about Obama. You know what? Forget everything I just said. What I really should have typed is short and sweet:
  STFU
7. Re:Bring me Google Fiber by fa2k · 2012-08-21 07:54 · Score: 2
  
  what's puzzling about the demo is why they didn't do it with 10 verizon links to achieve something 100mbit+.
  Wireless doesn't work like that
Re:Wasn't it limited? by wiedzmin · 2012-08-21 06:33 · Score: 2

DX still lets you browse anything you want... it has no WiFi so disabling 3G on it would piss some people off.

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Re:Wasn't it limited? by alexgieg · 2012-08-21 06:41 · Score: 3, Interesting

Nope, the old Kindle's have a rudimentary web browser you can enable in one of the settings menus. Works fine on 3G.
True enough. On the other hand, my Kindle 3's 3G connection went kaput a few months ago and I haven't missed it. I guess I could have saved some money buying the WiFi-only model back then. In fact, now that I think about it, I connect it to my home WiFi once every two weeks or so, and I'm reading on it all the time. I wonder if my usage pattern is typical.

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Why is this impressive? by Jeng · 2012-08-21 06:41 · Score: 4, Interesting

Ok, so they made a download of 85Mbps, is this impressive due to the speed, or the complexity?
Also, how fast is the Ethernet connection on it's own?

All in all, they hooked up all of these networking cards:
7 USB Wi-Fi Cards
USB 3G Modem
4G Tethered Smartphone
Ethernet Connection

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FINALLY!!! by jemenake · 2012-08-21 06:57 · Score: 4, Funny

... a use for all of the wireless passwords in my neighborhood that I've cracked! All of my neighbors (individually) have slower connections than I do.

On a side note, it always would irk me that Windows XP, if you gave it more than 1 path to the internet, would be unable to get to the internet at all.
Webramp by CambodiaSam · 2012-08-21 07:23 · Score: 3, Interesting

I played with one of these back in the 90s that did the same thing. http://www.speedguide.net/reviews/webramp-700s-89
Done that with 4 cable modem. by erraticus · 2012-08-21 11:20 · Score: 2

A time ago I played with a linux box and 4 cable modem (each had a different IP). It just were a load balancing with the kernel routing tables. I remember that BitTorrent was the sole thing where I could get the total speed being the sum of each link. The problem was that the routes are cached by session (dhost, dport I think) so parallel HTTP/FTP download of a file would go through the same link. However, routes expiring gave me problems with some services which doesn't like your IP to change.
Re:Wasn't it limited? by Ecuador · 2012-08-21 19:22 · Score: 2

When I am at home I connect to WiFi as you say every few weeks. However when I travel abroad it is an indispensable tool giving me access to maps, travel info, reservations etc without having to rely - on sometimes very expensive - local access options.
I consider my kindle 3G the best purchase I have ever made as it has already more than paid itself. Not to mention that I have been reading much more since I got a Kindle.
Although 50MB is enough for the usage I need to get from the browser, congrats to the guys who were taking advantage of Amazon's amazing service and were tethering the device, hence probably ruining it for everyone.

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