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Is your internet connection fast enough ? Want more ? While you can’t necessarily make one connection much faster, you can however aggregate or bond multiple connections together. Guys, this is not a scam video like so many “get faster internet connections” videos here on YouTube – this is a working technical solution.  Aggregating or bonding multiple internet connections into one faster connection nearly always follows the same scheme: you buy multiple connections such as DOCSIS, DSL, Starlink or 4G (so it’s not for free) and you rent a virtual server in the internet which you connect to with these various lines and they are then aggregated over there back into a fast line. You may buy such a solution from various vendors and they may cost up to thousands of dollars depending on the bandwidth. Or – like we do today – we use the free software OpenMPTCPRouter to do the same on the cheap – stay tuned. Quick reminder guys – if you want to skip stuff please use the chapter markers....

This is episode 2 of the VPN bonding series. In the last episode we doubled our internet speed by using two VPN tunnels and bonding two openvpn tap interfaces together. This can be used to increase the internet bandwidth if you live in a rural area where no high-speed Internet is available. The Linux bash scripts for this are on my Github repository. In this second episode of the Linux VPN bonding series we will have a closer technical look at the scripts and the principles that make this possible.. The Linux bash scripts that we use to achieve VPN bonding are heavily inspired by an article on serverfault.com. During my research for this video series I realized that channel bonding and increasing internet speed is a big concern in the community. Many people are asking questions about this in the various forums.  However, I could not find that many reliable answers that actually solve the problem. Bonding ISO layer 2 devices such as Ethernet devices is nothing new in Linux. In the e...

Before we start let me do a test. I have my  phone here which measures my Wi-Fi speed and  another phone which I use as a camera in  the other hand. I start on the 2nd floor  where I have an access point. As you can see speed  is quite OK. It won’t go much higher because I  capped it. I’ll explain in a second. Let me start  moving towards the staircase to the 1st floor.  As I do that you can see that the speed goes  down while I walk down the stairs until it starts  moving back up because I picked up the signal  from the 2nd access point here on the first floor.  Let me keep moving down to the basement. It’s  all concrete here so Wi-Fi gets weakened a lot.   But it doesn’t take long until I  get closer to the 3rd access point  here in the basement and speed picks up.  Walking back upstairs - same scenario.  How do I do that so seamlessly without  interruption of signal ? Is it a  Mes...

There are also many questions on the net on how to  extend your Wi-Fi with a second Wi-Fi Access point  or how to connect a second router. Let’s imagine  that you have a house with two floors or stories  and you have that Wi-Fi access point on the  first floor. You now want to extend the reach  of your Wi-Fi network in the house, let’s say  to the second floor.  How can this be achieved ? Many people these days use Wi-Fi Meshes to do  this. A Wi-Fi mesh basically is just a bunch of  Access points which extend the Wi-Fi network. That  means you can move from one room to the other,  and your tablet or phone would seamlessly  connect to the node in the mesh that delivers  the strongest signal without even noticing that  it has switched from one node to the other.   But the nodes need to communicate with each other.  In a true wireless mesh that happens over radio.  So in fact they will occupy mul...

In the first episode of the budget home networking  series we had a look at how to cable our home,  which components to put in such as a 19  inch rack, a patch panel and a switch  and what type of cables and racks to use. Today we will look at how we can interconnect  and extend these devices in order to have a  good Internet connection in the whole house.  One of the central components of the cabling  infrastructure is the patch panel. This is  where all the cables from the house come together.  For example this outlet goes to the living room,  meaning there is a connector in  the living room and a cable going  from there to this point here. Some of you  were asking if you really need a patch panel  and there are also you tubers saying that you don‘t  need it for small homes.  In fact, the size of your  home is not the most important factor but rather  the number of devices that you want to w...

When you unbox the pi – and that’s tip number one  – be extremely delicate and only touch the metal  parts. Don’t touch the printed circuit board.  Electric discharges might destroy the pi if  you do so. And if you take it out there is this  little notice telling you exactly that – but a  second too late probably because you have already  taken it out of the box, right ?  Here’s the  case which I bought – and that actually takes me  to tip number 2 : Do buy or make a case before  you unbox the pi. You don’t want to ask yourself  the question where to put it once you unboxed it.  That question should really be answered before.  The case which I have bought from Geek worm is  made of aluminum and that’s my personal tip number  3 – buy a metal case. Better heat dissipation and  less risk of static electric discharges.  The case  which I have bought has a couple of nice features  such as a lo...

Hi everyone, And this  is the nubia red magic six I’ve taken a look at  some of their phones in the past and this is the  latest one they have to offer it comes in at 5.99  and pre-orders are available from April 9th  and the launch date is April 15th all around  the world so let’s go ahead and open it up and  take a closer look at it see what we’ve got here well remove the wrapper now this comes in two colors eclipse black  and aurora I’m not sure which color it is  let’s go ahead and take the cover off here.   There we go so here’s the phone itself I’m  guessing this is eclipse black well move that  to the sign and then here’s the box let’s take  a look at what we get with it and we’ve got some  no case looks like a little bit of paperwork and  a sim card removal tool here so you just have a  quick guide and a warranty card included well set  that aside and then it looks like we have a cable and ...