Hi!
Alex, from Speedify here.
If you're anything like me, you’re pretty excited about the Raspberry Pi 4.
And every time you look at it, you think "how many internet connections can I get this thing
to use at the same time?"
Well, maybe not everyone’s like me asking those questions.
But in this video we’re gonna try to figure it out.
We’re gonna install Speedify on the Raspberry Pi, set it up to share its internet connection
over Wi-Fi or ethernet, and then we’re gonna see just how many internet connections we
can get working at the same time.
[Exciting Title Slide]
Normally, a Raspberry Pi can only use a single internet connection at a time.
Even if you attach an ethernet cable to the ethernet port, connect to a wifi network,
and plug in a few more ethernet connections into the usb port, your upload and download
traffic will only go through one connection at a time.
But with our Speedify channel bonding software, we can bond all those connections together
into one faster, stronger, more reliable connection that the Pi can use.
I’m pretty sure that with some adapters and phones, we can make this little Pi combine
a lot more than two connections.
So let’s get started!
[What Do You Need]
There isn’t any additional set up, other than plugging them in, to get the adapters
to work with the Pi.
If you’re connecting an iPhone to tether, you will need to install additional software
on the Pi for it to work.
I’ll leave a link in the description below.
Here, we have the internal Wi-Fi card connected to one network, with two external Wi-Fi cards
connected to two additional networks, and a tethered phone providing an additional connection.
So now, we have a Raspberry Pi with 4 different active connections.
We’ll turn on Speedify to combine them into one connection.
These connections were all too weak individually to even provide 3 Megabits per second download
speeds, but after combining them together we managed to bring speeds up to 8.4 Megabits
per second!
But why leave the ethernet port disconnected?
Well, Speedify has another feature on Linux, allowing you to use ethernet or the internal
Wi-Fi card to share your bonded connection over a hotspot for other devices to connect
to and use, giving them full access to the VPN features!
But that’s not all.
What if we took a second Pi - with the same setup?
We’re talking 2 Pis, each bonding four connections - and each broadcasting a single bonded superconnection.
Well, we have one right here - and I’m pretty sure we can use a third Raspberry Pi to bond
both other Pis’ bonded connections together!
I’ll just attach the three Pis together with a couple ethernet cords and start up
Speedify on the third Pi to bond the two connections… and voila!
Three Raspberry Pis, bonding a total of 8 internet connections into one, that we can
share as a Wi-Fi hotspot.
It’s almost too easy!
The second tethered phone was our strongest individual connection, providing 14 Mbps download
speeds on its own.
After combining both Pis together, our total 8-connection download speed clocked in at
over 30 Megabits per second!
I gotta get back to the lab.
Thanks for watching!
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