10 Internet Connections At Same Time

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

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."

15 of 152 comments (clear)

Min score:

Reason:

Sort:

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?
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...
  
  --
  Bio questions? Ask me to start a Q&A journal. Computer analogies available for most topics!
4. 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.
5. Re:What would you do if you had a million dollars? by Jeng · 2012-08-21 08:17 · Score: 4, Insightful
  
  Those who benefit the most from society owes society the most.
  
  --
  Don't know something? Look it up. Still don't know? Then ask.
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.

--
Conservatism: (n.) love of the existing evils. Liberalism: (n.) desire to substitute new evils for the existing ones.
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

--
Don't know something? Look it up. Still don't know? Then ask.
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.

--
My AC stalker: " I personally agree with your posts most of the time, but that won't keep me from modding you troll"
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
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.