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Idea #23118: Availability and need for faster and more reliable internet connections.

bug This idea is a duplicate of Idea #18948: Network bonding is.
Written by FeraTech the 24 Dec 09 at 20:51. Related project: Network Manager. Status: New
Rationale
With nearly every cell phone now having the ability to tether and the availability of wireless connectivity increasing having a stable connection or having the ability to increase stability is key. Also, imagine running an ubuntu server. The internet goes down. 3 people in the office have phones that can tether and 3 more have data cards. You plug them into the server and you have almost 6megs of shared bandwidth for the office. Also, with nic bonding you can easily use older hardware safely just by teaming up a couple of nics.

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Solution #1: Adding "Nic Bonding" and "Load Balancing" options to network manager
Written by FeraTech the 24 Dec 09 at 20:51.
If multiple nics are detected "Network Manager" should have the option to bond them. Once this is done, the multiple nics would no longer appear as separate tabs but as one device. Then for this "Bonded" device you have the option as to which type of bonding you want, ie failsafe or load balancing.

Then if multiple internet connections are detected you have the option to select "load balancing" allowing multiple sessions to be split amongst the connections. This is easily done with IPTABLES so should not be hard to implement:

http://linux-ip.net/html/adv-multi-internet.html


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Ssdg wrote on the 25 Dec 09 at 23:39
are you sure that your mobile network provider will allow you to accept incoming connections? (In france, you can't host a server on a mobile phone using mobile networks)

FeraTech wrote on the 14 Jan 10 at 07:46
In the US providers allow incoming connections. However, you are right this is more for outgoing connections made. Mostly on the basis that any new devices connected would have many separate IP addresses.

If an office really needs internet access or has periods of high bandwidth. This method could easily be used to supplement bandwidth.

tommynz1975 wrote on the 21 Jan 10 at 02:04
may I please suggest the reverse of this.. it maybe done all ready I don't know.

but to connect the cell to the computer and the cell get its Internet feed from your computer and not pay the phone company big buck$


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