How To Combine 2 or More Internet Sources: Bonding, Load Balancing, Failover

[@JoachimPersonalAccount]

Your sound sounds so good!! I remember your studio sound treatment video, great focus to detail! And I can tell that you improved your KZbin game, your MacBook as a windows user videos keep me hooked the most :)

[@FStoppers]

Thanks!

[@AlanForkosh]

If you have 2 or more ISP's in your area you can use a router that has failover capability. Basically, you tell the router that one of its LAN ports should be used as a failover WAN Nathan than a Lan port. The ASUS ZenWiFi AX (XT8) system.

[@CINEMATIK]

Dude, I can’t believe you made this video. You are not alone. I am currently looking for similar solution. My stupid Xfinity internet sucks, they randomly disconnect service for stupid maintenance work every other day and because of this I don’t have steady Relaible internet service. Other competitors like att fiber is not available in my area. So I am also looking for a back up solution similars what you showed. I even thought to get a Starlink, however, it is kind of pricy. I hope you will make another episode of this topic. Thanks.

[@Sincerelytk]

Mint mobile may be your best bet. They're cheap enough and it appears there's full coverage in PR. Also, you're a big enough channel that they may even sponsor it.

[@borgranta61103]

Verizon Prepaid has a 150GB data plan that costs $100 per month and their MIFI devices usually are sold for $50 and it would be simple to swap the sim card back and forth between the router and MIFI. as needed. Also the sim could easily be popped into a cellular compatible iPad making it a tablet plan as well. The 150GB plan is the largest plan and they have smaller plans that might suit you better on a monthly basis especially since you could probably buy add own data as needed.

[@Flip3rMAN]

Very instructive video. A lot of people don't know that this is possible !

[@XTLCE]

I have been using tp link er505 nonstop for two years now. For me actually does seem to bond my speed with the correct settings. I have had three att unlimited 4g data router and it did doubled and triple my speed whether if its downloading files,gaming, or watching videos it works for me. And yes I tested this myself.

[@Centronimation]

can you make a tutorial for it with all specific details or a manual or any link to resource

[@channel-gd6pr]

Thank you. This is very helpful. Prepaid mobile Internet is currently very cheap in India. Your failover recommendation will certainly help.

[@ViralWatchMedia]

Why is Speedify the only option for local bonding? I feel like its a total ripoff having to pay an extra fee just to use their app each month, it completely defeats the purpose of me trying to get extra speeds for free, why should I have to pay $15 a month for an extra 10Mbps.

[@NaturebyGus]

T-mobile home internet and Verizon Home Internet are true unlimited with great speeds. I have been using them for a year for $50 flat a month and no data limit or speed limit whatsoever. I am getting easy 200+Mbps on T-Mobile and about 150Mbps on Verizon and I live in a rural area far from the city.

[@magikarp8084]

Only problem is that neither are in Puerto Rico. We dont have Verizon and tmobile home internet hasn't arrived as a service. they online have mobile Hotspot

[@talharafique8913]

great information. you explain all the methods so its really helpful for persons like me who is trying to setup a home network...

[@BestMexicoMovers]

Superb video. Thank you so much! I live in Mexico and must have reliable Internet, so I have been searching for a solution. I have a signal from Starlink, a signal from fiber optic, and a signal from a modem that picks up its signal from a cell tower. All the signals are hard wired into my garage. Is it possible to bond all three signals together in some type of “box” in the garage that uses Speedify or something else and then distribute that bonded signal through lots of ethernet cables throughout my house to lots of separate modems, all of which output the signal that was originally bonded in the garage?

[@CoverageAwarenessStudio]

I have TP-Link load balancer works amazing! I have three cable ISP at 940 Mbps down / 40 Mbps up. I get 2, 820 down and 120 Mbps up. it appears it does make it faster and it is flawless.

[@ReneKubicka]

Hi @CoverageAwarenessStudio, and which TP-Link load balancer model are you having?

[@mustaphaibrahim9194]

Excellent and exceptional piece of information

[@YannMetalhead]

Good explanation.

[@brandonw7390]

Fail over is amazing when you’re stuck with something like Spectrum.

[@BannedLGamePlay]

I know it is maybe too late but here in Greece we have that option in prepaid sims not with a plan or anything they do expire after a year if you dont pay to get GB to renew the exp date i dont know if it could work for you but you could activate maybe the data roaming and maybe could work but anyway great explanation very helpful video... If you need more explanation about what i mean let me know

[@PWN_Nation]

This is also a hot topic for RVers who WFH but move around a bunch (like us)...

[@blasta42]

Verizon just launched a 5G home Internet service. If it’s available near you (big if), it’s unlimited data for $25/mo if you’re a VZ customer or $50/mo if you’re not. It’s actually unlimited data and is like 200-300Mbps. They give you a real router with an Ethernet port that can then be used with a failover/backup/etc router. Kinda neat!

[@HumblyNeil]

Is there no long-range wifi options on Puerto Rico? I have a friend in Italy who uses point to point (radio?) internet, he lives in the woods over Lake Como gets his internet fed to his cabin over a radio antenna. He gets a solid bandwidth just a little more laggy than you'd expect over fibre.

[@FStoppers]

I don't see the point in this though....we'd need a reliable feed from a friend's house but when power goes out, it's usually the whole neighborhood spanning much more than 2-3 miles in radius. Sometimes it's the entire island. It's cool tech but I'm not sure it would work in our situation. -P

[@HumblyNeil]

@@FStoppers that's exactly what I mean he gets the signal sent from a wireless provider in Milan, tens of miles away. It's going to be as reliable as your mobile signal.

[@axlslak]

uhm, no. i'll listen to the whole video, but bonding can't be used to make personal internet better :) so the way bonding works is... well I can think of 2 examples that I personally use. One would be when you have a really big computer that is accessed by all the other computers. and lets say you have 10 clients each with gigabyte connection. And you have one server with one gigabyte connection too. and you can saturate one client, but not all 10. And lets say you want to saturate just 4 of them. What you would do is get 3 more network cards for the server. and bond them. In technical terms, bonding is kinda like bridge, in the sense that you create a virtual network connection, made out of actual network connections, all joined into one. But while bridge is like a spider with 8 legs, bonding is like a spider with 8 legs + a head going somewhere. in bridge, information only gets from one leg to another. bond gets all information to the head, or from the head to any available leg. another example where I found bonding useful is for vpn. When you want to encrypt & compress a stream of data, its better to break it down in smaller parts and then compress/encrypt those. I use linux, vtun, tap, lzo and ssh. All these layers use multiple cores. not just multiple cores to execute all the layers, but, the vpn machine uses 4 threads to compress and ssh data, through 4 different data streams. reason is simple. bigger throughput. When you want to move stuff from pile A to pile B, using a modern cpu, you can only use as much cpu power a core has. if you want to do it faster, you have to use multiple cpus. or cores. well. bonding does exactly that in network terms. you break traffic at point a, and split it into more cores, compress/ecrypt it, reassamble back at point b. Anyway, you can take 2 connections from the same carrier/isp and bond them. But you cant take 2 isp and bond them. You would need a routing server or a bgp. complicated business.

[@FStoppers]

Is this because the two connections are not exactly the same and to the same location? We've bonded our Synology NAS which has 4 1-GB connections to make a 4GB connection and I think we also Bonded 2 of the 10GB ethernet ports to give us 20GB of total bandwidth. These are all ports from the NAS to ports on the Switch. Maybe what you are saying is you can't take 1 connection from the NAS and send it to one switch and then a 2nd connection from the same NAS and send it to a different switch and get bonding. That makes sense to me. -P

[@ReneKubicka]

Thank you for finding time to make this video. Would you know, if your backup failover WAN consumes any data while bein in standby mode? I as well have failover WAN in use. However, so far, all the solutions I've tried or studied slowly and unnecessarily consumed my metered data by sending pings, checking connection stability, and/or gathering network statistics. I would need to find a router, which transfers ZERO data via failover WAN, unless primary WAN stops working. Thanks.

[@Vamanos46]

5:40 you came across FreedomPop right? It used to be accruing a few Gb data but their terms changed

[@luciman9268]

Many services have no data caps as long as you have 5G UlTrA range

[@mondotv4216]

I’d be looking for a broadband supplier that offers 4G or 5G failover if their hardwire connection goes down. Then there is no additional cost to you. I don’t know if they have these in Puerto Rico?

[@pablogalvz]

I'm in Puerto Rico and just added Starlink as a secondary (now primary) source... did you consider that?

[@pin65371]

I think the issue is when the power goes out it most likely means they are having a storm which would interfere in starlink as well.

[@pablogalvz]

@@pin65371 power goes out here for random reasons throughout the week. Sometimes it goes out for a few minutes and other times it can be hours or days. A battery backup unit can power Starlink and you have no concerns about the cell providers backup failing which happened a few weeks ago.

[@FStoppers]

Yes, I just don't want to pay $100/month for a backup I'll rarely use.

[@pablogalvz]

@@FStoppers 👍

[@FStoppers]

@@pin65371 Power is rarely out because of weather. It's usually fires, animals shorting out stuff, earthquakes, horrible infrastructure, etc. Starlink is an option but it's the same cost as a second ISP bill. -P

[@Napper198]

you migth want to look at your existing phone plan. With Vodafone in Germany i.e. I can get an additional SIM which will use my existing plan for 5€/mo and on top of that I can order unlimited data for 24h for a one time fee of 5,99€. T-Mobile had simmilar conditions, last time I checked. I haven't tested it myself but there is a good chance that this might be truely unlimited since you're going to be time capped + running a whole month like this would be rather expensive.

[@rm13149]

In Bangladesh we have unlimited validity mobile Internet packages that costs somewhat more than the monthly packages but the validity is the comfort.

[@k-rom8694]

5:00 I use visible which is like 20-30 bucks a month for unlimited gigs

[@latinhawk1954]

I just saw this video. I'm also in Puerto Rico. I have a TP-Link er605 router with fiber to the home and over the air link with fail over. I can also tether my cell phone to the USB connection to use it as a connection of last resort.

[@jimgelbort2115]

Reiterating earlier suggestions regarding Google Fi - look into it

[@AmandaFifer]

You can get the Tesla link satellite as your full service internet and that should solve all your problems.

[@picchiboss3228]

Joikuspot for Nokia was fantastic over a decade ago...

[@gregtyler4002]

AT&T Prepaid: $300/yr; 25gb/mo; no rollover.

[@Mrperson0]

In that case, I think something like Ting would be better. You can sign up for the Flex plan (postpaid $10 per month, +$5 per GB used). Assuming that you never use this other than an emergency, you would need to use 32 GB of data the whole year to match the AT&T prepaid plan.

[@AbortedRepublic]

Starlink is a better solution. I live in the woods of rural Ohio, no broadband cables coming down my country road, let alone up my long gravel lane, my only access to internet is 4G, which you know gets big time throttled. 4G works great the first couple days of the billing cycle, then it's garbage for the rest of the month. I gotta warn you though, Starlink customer service is virtually nonexistent, it's all DIY.

[@rawraj1578]

Is it possible to ditch the router and add a USB to Lan Adaptor and have two Lan ports in your laptop and then is there any software that will offer failover and loadbalancing or bonding options?

[@LizaLuck]

Maybe it's me but Lee in crew was outside more during the COVID days then now. What happen?

[@tibororosz5386]

Nothing technical reality just an ad.

[@GuardTower]

I have zero background when it comes to this things. but can someone correct / point me to the right answer. I have 2 Fiber connection in my house. do i use a load balancer if i just want to have 1 of the 2 connection be a back up? like if Connection A got cut off Connection B will automatically connect and vise versa?

[@John83118]

Incredibly insightful; parallel to a book that's a pillar in its genre. "A Life Unplugged: Reclaiming Reality in a Digital Age" by Various Authors

[@GeneoftheWorld]

What I'd like to do, is say, if i'm using two threads from a single process, or downloading two files, that could dynamically load balance when it detects net speeds drop precipitously, but only when speeds crash. This would NOT be site specific, so the software would need to do a "quick and dirty speed test" do accomplish that. I don't think a software program is that complicated to employ this technique, but its a question of how to route the right packets to the right process, thread, file handles (Linux), and if the OS even gives the user the control over that. Ditto for Windows, MacOS equivalent. I'm sure robust industrial servers already have this setup, question of getting that on an el cheapo thin client home computer for the masses. I think there are phones that do this very trick, funny how PCs lag phone technology these days.

[@Efreneldetaty87]

Luma!😂

[@mohsinfarooq9601]

Love from Pakistan

[@andrewjohnston2175]

Great tutorial, thank you!

[@lukaszantoniak9046]

TMobile has truly unlimited option that costs around $30 for 2 sim cards I've got from them. There were days I had to download around 800GB of data per day on each card what was possible.

[@rawraj1578]

I am here cause my windows 11 failover is not that reliable. So I had my broadband down which is connnected through the land and i have a backup cable connnection for the TV I am connncted to that through the wifi in my Laptop. I had my broadband go down so this would sometimes connect sometimes it would not and it would not switchover the broadband when the it was up. I would have to disconnect the wifi then I would turn it on again. But for some reason randomly it switches to wifi as the main connection. During this time I noticed a problem with subscription website that offer data. They only allow login from one device so you can't share the subscription. Here it just keeps logging off whenever it switches connection and keeps going back and forth. I wanted to install the exact samething you have but I was looking for how to solve this problem. Is there even a solution to this.

[@Gintokikreuz1]

I would say try Straight talk home Internet or Metro by T-mobile home Internet. Straight talk 45 a month and Metro is 50. Since I find it impossible to find a pre paid sim u buy and forget... 😅

[@CappuccinoLife]

Hello, Starlink? :)

[@sijilo]

👍🏻

[@barryobrien1890]

Probably Google fi sim is your best bet. It's $20 per month for a connection and $10 per GB, bit it makes out at $60 per month unlimited data. Here in India it's $4 for 3 months and $3 for a 25gb data pack you can use any time if you have an active sim. I have the same issue with the fiber going down after 1 hour. Any of the Asus meshing routers offer this also. Make sure you set the fall back to your fiber assp. Google fi is handy as it works worldwide for the same $10/gb if you travel, and you can pop the sim in your phone when you leave home. Can't think of anything else. Mint mobile had data only but i am not sure if it's still available. T-Mobile may have a $50 plan but i am not sure it's in PR. Anyone over 50 can get the sim and then you can use it and put it on your cc.

[@Uninfluenceable]

Came to post this, you beat me to it.

[@maxmulax294]

so for my live streams, Load balancing (2 sim cards) wont be any better than using only 1 sim with 1 internet provider instead of 2 on my router? and yeah man! It use to be like that, you pay once and thats it, same with softwares, now with all this ass&*) charging subscriptions and monthly payments its just so fu(%( annoying.

[@arpitdhole8603]

Try Jio 5g

[@mrtechie6810]

Nighthawk 4 is $375!?

[@jaycee320]

Get starlink internet works everywhere very reliable at the moment. Got my friend from California to get one

[@Neopulse00]

5:30 - I'd look up Starlink if possible.

[@FStoppers]

Many of our neighbors are just installing Starlink this week. It look super promising (and portable, you can take it back to the states with you) but it's also $110 a month. If our cable or soon to be installed Fiber option that has just been laid here gets any more unreliable, Starlink might be on order. It's pretty impressive what our friends are getting with that system. -P

[@gpa9569]

Page Plus 60gb verizon towers

[@headscout]

KZbin is scary. It recommend me this video after I buy SpaceX' Starlink. Now I have 3 internet connection needs to be aggregated (Fiber, Starlink, and 5G SIM) and it is 'scary' expensive overall.

[@BearSesameLLCAllentown]

Once you explore multiple connections you are already earning enough to explore this sector

[@GeneoftheWorld]

Of course, I wanna pay $0 every single month, but thats for people who don't need to work or run a business. Where internet is pure leisure, and if it goes down, there is still Super Mario, workouts, grocery store, cycling in great outdoors etc etc

[@Seaneditz83]

speedify sucks cus its still slows the speed even more

[@8bitkid408]

Just get a 5G router.

[@miguelaboitiz2056]

surfroam is a pay-as-you-go data sim service