Bridging 2 connections to increase speed?

[TommyTwommy]

So I have my router that has 50mpbs and my 4G mobile internet that I've connected to my PC and used an app called PdaNet to make it lool like its another router. I bridged my router and my smartphone hoping to increase internet speed. But it didn't the speed is the same as it was when I didn't bridge the phone. Am I doing something wrong?

[MrDrWho13]

It sounds impossible to me, how would a system like that work?

[McHox]

how can we know if somethings wrong if you don't provide any usefull info or numbers m8

[manikyath]

pretty sure that's not what bridging is for.

[TommyTwommy]

Just now, manikyath said:

pretty sure that's not what bridging is for.

yeah i guess its not for improving internet speed.. but i was wondering if it was possible..

[manikyath]

Just now, berny22 said:

yeah i guess its not for improving internet speed.. but i was wondering if it was possible..

you can use two connections to get more speed, but it's not as simple as pretting a button.

 

most commercially available solutions are a piece of hardware that plugs into the vareous internet connections and your local network, and basicly splits your data over the vareous connections, where it travels off to the solution provider's servers that tape it back together and send it out as a single stream.

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the homebrew solution, which i heard about from a teacher, but is rather unpractical is writing your own network code for a linux box that basicly monitors how much data is going both ways, and based on pre-defined parameters (the speed of both connections, and for this guy more importantly the data cap) bounces outgoing connections to one of the two uplinks.

[mcraftax]

The way of doing that is to get a load balancer which balances connections between the two connections.

You will not see a increase in speed (on individual single session) but you will have more bandwidth.

[Blade of Grass]

On 20/07/2016 at 9:03 AM, manikyath said:

you can use two connections to get more speed, but it's not as simple as pretting a button.

 

most commercially available solutions are a piece of hardware that plugs into the vareous internet connections and your local network, and basicly splits your data over the vareous connections, where it travels off to the solution provider's servers that tape it back together and send it out as a single stream.

--

the homebrew solution, which i heard about from a teacher, but is rather unpractical is writing your own network code for a linux box that basicly monitors how much data is going both ways, and based on pre-defined parameters (the speed of both connections, and for this guy more importantly the data cap) bounces outgoing connections to one of the two uplinks.

This likely won't increase the speed in the way that he wants. This will help if you're, say, downloading a file and watching youtube, but it won't help you download a game faster. 

[BuckGup]

I know there is a service if you have two ISPs or a mobile plan like you have it will combine them into one and will actually offer faster speeds. By faster I think it just chooses the best things for each. So shortest routes and alters ISP for multiple downloads

[manikyath]

3 hours ago, Blade of Grass said:

This likely won't increase the speed in the way that he wants. This will help if you're, say, downloading a file and watching youtube, but it won't help you download a game faster. 

the first will, the second wont.

[Donut417]

I wouldn't dare download a lot on a 4G connection. I know of no 4G provider that is merciful. Heavy Overages or throttled speeds. Even T Mobile is not merciful. Especially if you use one of those apps that allow you to tether without their knowledge. Tethering has limited data even on unlimited plans. 

[mariushm]

You can't make ONE connection (one transfer) go through two separate internet providers at the same time. If you have multiple connections (a download manager splitting a file download into several chunks and using multiple connections to download chunks independently), then it's possible to create some connections that go through one internet provider and the rest through the other provider.  If one is slower on average, any chunks or any download being transferred on that internet plan will naturally be downloaded slower.

 

I'm not sure how Steam works, but I suspect it doesn't use multiple connections to download games, it just creates one connection to a remote server and retrieves files or fragments of files (if updates say so) . so multiple internet plans won't give you higher download speed, but it may help you from a quality of service point of view (for example if you have people in the house watching Netflix, the Steam downloads could be routed through one internet provider and Netflix would go through the other, so both would work just fine, without affecting each other)