Can you make a Dual WAN work like download booster??

[unibrowser]

I have seen these dual WAN routers, but they are more for redundancy from what I've seen. I want to know if there is a way to merge two Internet connections and actually utilize the double bandwidth upload AND download. Just like the download booster for the newer android phones. I believe it's called a "http range request". Tp link builds some pretty cool multi connection routers with load balancing. But is there a way to make it always utilize both connections all the time? Thanks for your help in advance.

 

[PsyKhiqZero]

I'm a little sketchy on the exact details. But for what your asking for can't be achieved by a simple device on you end. Because once the data leaves the router it will travel through 1 of 2 connections. Your isp would have to bond the connections on their end as well sending all traffic through a single IP.

I've heard of service that will help merge the IPs on the internet, Shareband
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r25383297-Sharedband-Qwest-mini-Review
Mybe that will help you.

 

[bill001g]

Not on a single file transfer and I can promise even android can not solve this. The key problem is you have 2 different IP addresses. It is fundamental to how tcp works that only 1 ip is used per session. You could for example download 2 different files one on each but that can quickly run into security issues because sites think it is 2 different users.

The VPN solution that claim to solve this introduce a different set of problem almost as hard to solve. You now only have a single IP address but you now have the added latency and overhead of a vpn connection. In addition you now get packet out of order issues that are interpreted by the end devices as data loss. If you get too much of this it will degrade your performance and in worst case cause the session to drop.

Most VPN services try to just ignore the packet out of order problem. It tends to be rather expensive to solve because now you must have devices/software on each end of the connection that can hold data and reorder it. Most VPN services are competing on price only and most people are too lazy to read why one provider charges so much more so it is hard to find one that even attempt to solve the packet out of order issue.

Still there is no free lunch to solve the packet out of order issue you must delay data that arrived too early waiting for the late arrival. You now get jitter in the packet delivery rate. This is no issue for file transfers but is major for things like VoIP or video or even games.

 

[unibrowser]

From what I have read the "http range request" or "byte request" tells the server to send a file or a part of a file through one connection or IP address, and the other part of the same file is requested but the other connection. I've seen it work on the androids. But there are limitations like if your WiFi speed is much faster it won't work , or the file size has to be at least 30mb or larger. Ect. Maybe it is proprietary software they use to reassemble the data once it all arrives. I don't know. Yes this will only be for large file transfers, not video streaming or anything else.

 

[bill001g]

But that has nothing to do with android. It assume there is a server that supports the feature that android is using. That is like saying you can use the steam game downloader because it multistreams the data and can restart on a failure. Does not do a lot of good when you go to microsoft to download a patch since they don't use that system.

It would be highly unlikely that that method is accepted because it puts so much burden on the server for such a small number of users...who of course want it for free. It also is almost impossible to use on encrypted (ie https) sessions again it would require a massive amount of server resources to keep track of which groups of session represent the same secure use.

 

[jsmithepa]

who of course want it for free.

Folks have lots of free time dreaming about stuff but ask them to pay for the service? No.