Superhub : 200Mbit coming soon? (According to a survey)

[JPAC]

Originally Posted by Media Boy

For all.

So everyone will have their speed doubled by the end of the year?

[MagicUK]

hows that essay coming along Ignitionnet?

[Ignitionnet]

Delayed by a 2 day hangover and a busy return to the day job.

[dragon]

Originally Posted by Sephiroth

I'm currently running my ASUS RT-AC68U in Dual WAN mode with two incoming ISP circuits. The router doesn't bond (bonding routers are damn expensive).

Later today I'll set rules as to which of my two wired computers associates with which ISP circuit. Then we'll see if the two simultaneous speed tests show max for each circuit.

If you wanted to bond at those speeds I believe it's possible using off the shelf X86 hardware and something like Vyos or RouterOS, that said the required config often is rather complicated particularly if it's unbalanced lines and you need to skew the ratios to take that into account.

[Media Boy UK]

Originally Posted by JPAC

So everyone will have their speed doubled by the end of the year?

Watch this space.

[crazyronnie]

Originally Posted by dragon

If you wanted to bond at those speeds I believe it's possible using off the shelf X86 hardware and something like Vyos or RouterOS, that said the required config often is rather complicated particularly if it's unbalanced lines and you need to skew the ratios to take that into account.

PFsense will also bond 2 wan connections

[Ignitionnet]

Originally Posted by JPAC

So everyone will have their speed doubled by the end of the year?

I wouldn't imagine everyone will be done in one hit.

[qasdfdsaq]

Originally Posted by dragon

If you wanted to bond at those speeds I believe it's possible using off the shelf X86 hardware and something like Vyos or RouterOS, that said the required config often is rather complicated particularly if it's unbalanced lines and you need to skew the ratios to take that into account.

pfSense does it too, and of course if you're a simpleton you can run dd-wrt or Openwrt with their 1-click bonding GUI on x86 as well. If you're a complex-ton, like a masochistic challenge, or just have a lot of manpower and expertise to show off, you can run a custom distribution of RHEL on a cluster of rack servers with an LCFG automated configuration backend for your routing infrastructure...

Any old consumer router will support wire-speed forwarding with VLANs so a cheap old spare laptop somewhere will do the trick. Some laptops can provide a wireless AP as well all while using less power than the Superhub!

TBH unbalanced bonding is easy. You specify the upstream and downstream rates on each connection and you're done. What's complicated is dynamically dealing with VM's STM modifying your upstream rate and having something at the other end to terminate your aggregated link.

I suspect you may actually mean load-balancing/failover, which is indeed awkward to balance when you have unbalanced lines, latencies, and routes.

[Ignitionnet]

Reading that post reminds me why I just clicked a couple of times on Amazon and got an SME bit of kit to do it for me.

[qasdfdsaq]

So what you're saying is, you'd rather throw money someone else to do it for you? :-P

(Welcome to my entire philosophy on life...)

Totally understandable though. I've gone off pfSense myself, while it's fairly easy to set up LAGG once it's installed getting it installed to begin with was way too much un-needed complexity. Also didn't need the 2x2Ghz performance on a 10Mbps line. Openwrt, on the other hand, isn't really intended for end users but a lot of router manufacturers supply their routers with skinned interfaces built on it.

[adzii_nufc]

So without having to skim through the entire thread on a mobile, are we getting any increases? The current gen of gaming is pushing games at sizes of 50gb plus. The demand for a higher speed is there.

Edit. apparently so given Media Boy's answer.

[General Maximus]

like I have said before. the announcement will be made this year (probably June) but with only a handful of areas enabled. There will be a rollout schedule like before and it will last the best part of two years plus the usual delays so don't start getting excited. Because my area is usually towards the end I was cheeky last time round and rang up right at the start and for a requested re-tier. I have never rang up for any discounts or anything before and they were more than happy to do it for me. I got through to India first who told me she couldn't do the upgrade and offered me a discount and when I refused I got put through to an English person who sent me a shub2 and pushed through the new config. The bummer is that I think they have cottoned on what people are doing and don't upgrade in advance anymore.

[Ignitionnet]

Originally Posted by MagicUK

hows that essay coming along Ignitionnet?

It's proving to be a considerably more involved a piece of work than I wanted it to be.

1,283 words and barely started.

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Originally Posted by General Maximus

like I have said before. the announcement will be made this year (probably June) but with only a handful of areas enabled.

[roughbeast]

Originally Posted by General Maximus

like I have said before. the announcement will be made this year (probably June) but with only a handful of areas enabled.

Would I be right in assuming that those areas being tested now are the most likely to be permanently set up first? I only say this because I have this mental picture of small teams of techies moving around the country making the necessary changes area by area. I would guess that the necessary changes have already been made in the test areas.

[Sephiroth]

Igni will know the answer to Roughie's question.

But my instinct is that VM are scoping just what they do need to do across the country by taking a sample of different infrastructures and tease out what needs to be done, so making a template for respective areas.