How to combine three 4g (LTE) connections for greater speed ?

jimmyEatWord

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considering some programs like torrents are not IP restrictive , i have done it before with an ADSL line and a Wimax service but it was on a load balancer with two WAN ports ,

now i'm trying to combine 3 , 4g connections for a greated combined speed , and i can't use my load balancer cause first it has only two WAN ports , second my sim cards are on devices that don't have LAN ports , one is on my iphone , second is on a pocket portable modem , third is on a table dlink modem ; so is there a way ? i've tried connecting all three devices to my computer while running utorrent but the speed was actually slower than a single connection ?!

google didn't help

there's apparently a program for that called 'speedify' but i want to make sure it works the way i intend to before i have to pay for it , i tried the trial , but it didn't really seem to combine speeds .. rather advertising
 
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The only way to truly do this is for the ISP to do it. They must place equipment on both ends to combine the connections. It may not really be possible with LTE type connections. Many time their is limited radio bandwidth. You would have to run from mulitple towers.

Things like speedify are using a vpn to try to get past the problem that each of your internet connections have different IP which prevents using them all to increase transfer speed of a single file. All they do is trade one problem for another. When you are doing load balance by packet you now get the new problem of out of order packets. Out of order packets are detected as packet loss by the end stations. They can tolerate some small amounts but large amount...
The only way to truly do this is for the ISP to do it. They must place equipment on both ends to combine the connections. It may not really be possible with LTE type connections. Many time their is limited radio bandwidth. You would have to run from mulitple towers.

Things like speedify are using a vpn to try to get past the problem that each of your internet connections have different IP which prevents using them all to increase transfer speed of a single file. All they do is trade one problem for another. When you are doing load balance by packet you now get the new problem of out of order packets. Out of order packets are detected as packet loss by the end stations. They can tolerate some small amounts but large amount will cause the session to drop. Online games do not tolerate this at all so you get lag spikes in game.

Speedify unlike almost all other services like this actually admits this is a problem....way down in the fine print. Their solution though is stupid. They just transmit copies of the data over all the connections. So they in effect double or triple the data sent to avoid the problem but then you get no increase in bandwidth because you are now sending more data to avoid the out of order packet problem.

The only way to really do this is at a much lower level that data packets, LTE already does this as part of the LTE protocol to get the speeds it is getting. Your WiFi does it also with MiMo.

Now if you have huge amounts of money you can put in what are called wan accelerators from companies like steelhead. These devices will buffer the data to prevent the out of order packet problem as well as load balance the traffic into mulitple connections. You would need a box like this in your house as well as on the remote end likely in a hosting center.

Pretty much the answer is it can't be done.
 
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