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B-man33

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Morning (while I was typing this, it was morning my side of the world)

I have a bit of a question regarding speedify, it basically says it will speed up your internet using 2 connections, check out the link
http://speedify.com/download/

I am in a situation where I have 2 4G lte routers from different companies (it's super cheap so I went for it, I have about 550 GB of 4G data), I have no other choice but to go 4G as in my area this is the best solution for fast speed internet and online gaming (sad, isn't it?). If I go the DSL route I am looking at speeds of 1.0 Mbps download and 0.5 Mbps upload, with a ping of over 300, 4G actually gives me a ping of 110 - 150 which I can play online games

Problem is, I can't get the 4G to give me even 5 Mbps download, it sometimes dips down to 0.5 Mbps download... But upload is always over 10 Mpbs (I don't understand it myself) and I was wondering if anyone have any experience with speedify?

Both connections use the Huawei CPE B593 router, at one stage I thought upgrading the router might also work? Not sure, I have no idea how internet connections work, here is the link for the 2 routers I currently have
https://consumer.huawei.com/au/support/products/technicalspecs/b593-au.htm

I enjoy streaming from time to time as well to Twitch and this is possible if the 4G doesn't do these random dips all the way down to 0.5 Mbps download (the game disconnects from multiplayer, it's frustrating, especially if you were about to 360noscope someone)

I have complained so many times at the companies providing the 4G, even got in touch with one of the managers and I keep getting the same results and same answer 'we will fix it' pretty sure they don't even know what the problem is

Last question, will it help if I upgrade the router? I want to try out Speedify, just need to hear from someone who has experience with the program/ app
 
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The ISP will fix it it'll just take some.time
What you're describing is a classic example of overbooking a location. There are two many people in your area using 4G than the hub can handle.

What Speedify is bundling all efforts, meaning when you're on your phone and got Wi-Fi from your DSL modem and got 3G for example, it tries to combine the bandwidth
While this can work, in your case it won't do anything unless the 2 4G-services you got are with different ISPs using physically different infrastructure
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I too game on 4G connection and the speed varies some, but not as much as you experience... The more people that are using that base station you are connected to via the router, the less speed and unstability you experience... Is the area remote or just crappy coppercabels like I have
 
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The ISP will fix it it'll just take some.time
What you're describing is a classic example of overbooking a location. There are two many people in your area using 4G than the hub can handle.

What Speedify is bundling all efforts, meaning when you're on your phone and got Wi-Fi from your DSL modem and got 3G for example, it tries to combine the bandwidth
While this can work, in your case it won't do anything unless the 2 4G-services you got are with different ISPs using physically different infrastructure
 
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Thanks :)

Yes, it is 2 different ISP's so gonna give it a go and see how it works out, they should of upgraded a long time ago but they just don't really care for stuff like that unfortunately, it's a small country with terrible service of all sorts, even the ISP, if I lived in the city, then there would no problem even for DSL, I can go fiber

Still better then South African ISP, I am currently in Kuwait, hoping to change countries in the future, haha
 
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Isokolon

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Well while I find overbooking a location not really the fairest thing, people tend to forget that this all costs money.

And to expand a location for 15000$ is often not economical for 40 customers that pay 20$/month

But yeah if it's 1 different ISPs that don't use the same infrastructure ir might work. The ping might suffer though.
 
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B-man33

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Isokolon

You are absolutely right, the ping went double! Freakin crazy man, anyway, I was a bit stupid, I put the router where it did not receive a proper signal from the tower, once I moved it, I have seen much better speeds, even during peak times, I have also read that my current router is not really that great and a lot seem to complain about it (this side of the world) so I invested in a better router, might or might not work but it's a DSL and 4G LTE router so it won't go to waste, can always use it if I ever get a DSL connection again

Thanks for the help, really appreciate it
 
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Speedify is mostly smoke and mirrors. They use the vpn solution to solve the problem of combining ISP and the issue that the ISP have different IP addresses. Still all they did was trade one problem for another. When you have internet connections that do not have exactly the same latency to the vpn center you now get packet out of order. End machine actually think packet out of order is packet loss until they actually receive the out of order packets. It will cause packet retransmissions and session disconnection at times. It causes massive lag in games

The only way to really fix this is to use special hardware or software on both ends. It costs quite a bit, machines like steelhead from riverbead cost as much as your car does do a good job of solving this.

Speedify is one of the very few that actually admits this problem exists. You have to read the fine print. Many other providers pretend it does not happen. Unfortunately speedify solution is to turn on a option that send copies of packets on both connections. So now they just doubled the amount of data they send which pretty much defeats the whole purpose of using bonding in the first place

Pretty much vpn bonding will appear slower if the latency and bandwidth on your 2 connections is not very similar
 
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