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What if I told you that you can double, triple, or even quadruple your internet speed with one easy trick?

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Well, you'd probably say,

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Yeah, I've heard that before!

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This asshole told me to duct tape my belt to my network cable,

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then laughed at me when my pants fell down.

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But wait!

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This time it's actually real!

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Our internet service provider here at Linus Media Group,

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ITEL Networks, sent us this fancy box

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that allows you to bond together multiple internet connections

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in what is effectively internet SLI.

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And I've been using it for the last three months.

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So let's talk about some pretty cool network magic and how it works.

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GFuel is the sugar-free alternative energy beverage

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to maintain focus and endurance over long days and gaming sessions.

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Save some money,

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using code Linus at the link in the video description.

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Let's get this out of the way.

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Bonded internet is faster,

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but it is not free.

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If you've tried the free ways to get faster internet,

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you'll know that they don't work anyway, though,

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so that shouldn't come as much of a surprise.

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So what's the point of making this video?

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And what is the point of bonding at all then, Linus?

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If I wanted a faster internet connection,

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I could just buy a faster internet connection like you did.

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No voodoo required.

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Well,

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there are a number of reasons,

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but I'll start with mine,

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since it actually covers a few of the most common ones.

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Now, the office here is fine,

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but at my house,

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at the time of setting this up,

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the fastest download speed I could get was 100 megabit,

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and the fastest upload speed available on a residential ADSL or cable line was 10 megabit,

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which is great for uploading the odd cat video to Facebook,

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but I have experienced some data loss scares recently,

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but I have experienced some data loss scares recently,

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but I have experienced some data loss scares recently,

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but I have experienced some data loss scares recently,

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but I have experienced some data loss scares recently,

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but I have experienced some data loss scares recently,

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and I wanted to set up an off-site backup for my storage box,

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meaning that I could easily be transferring multiple gigs of data in a single day.

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And there's also the issue of dynamic IP addresses.

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Even fairly basic uses,

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like hosting an FTP file server,

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require a static IP address to avoid unexpected downtime,

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not included with most residential connections.

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And then further complicating matters,

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many ISPs,

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also block some of the common ports associated with hosting websites,

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mail servers,

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or what have you.

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Now you might think then that the obvious solution would be to get a business connection.

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But while that would give me a static IP and all of my ports open for running servers or whatever,

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those cost significantly more than the residential ones,

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and to my shock and awe,

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are no faster,

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or in Telus' case,

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not even available in my area at the same speeds.

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So given then that a fiber build out to my house would cost about as much as a new car,

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ITEL suggested ordering multiple cheaper residential connections to my house and combining them.

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But the only way that I was aware of that that could work is with a load balancing router.

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It's a relatively affordable piece of hardware,

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but one that's considered more appropriate for failover,

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in the event that one connection goes down,

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or for distributing net traffic across multiple users.

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Like, for example,

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if two users are trying to watch two 4 megabit streams,

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that could work with two 5 megabit connections.

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But if one user was trying to stack those two 5 megabit connections,

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and watch a single 8 megabit video stream,

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load balancing would not be the solution.

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It turns out that they were talking about bonding.

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So the first step was to consider,

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was to convince TELUS that I actually needed two residential lines to my house.

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So I got two of the 50 down, 10 up packages,

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and the installers helped me run the phone lines to my server room,

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insisting the whole time that they'd be back in a week to take one of them out,

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when I found out that this wasn't going to work.

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This all took place back when I was doing the conclusion of personal rig update 2016.

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Next, I plugged both of those ADSL modems into this,

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and I was able to connect them to a black box,

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it's not actually black, I'm just calling it that because it's a mystery,

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that ITEL calls the Bonder.

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They actually have ones with six ports that can handle up to five connections,

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and 900 megabit symmetrical traffic,

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but mine is a fairly basic one designed for two internet connections,

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then a single connection back to my router,

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which after configuring my new static IP,

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something the TELUS techs also insisted wouldn't work,

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manages the rest of my network,

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and it works exactly the way it normally would.

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ITEL asked for about an hour or so to do some tuning,

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then I downloaded a game off steam,

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and boom, 10 megabyte per second downloads,

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as though I was on a single connection.

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But how can that be?

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For things like downloading large files,

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or watching streaming video,

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I mean, I could imagine that ITEL's box could have like large buffers inside of it,

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allowing it to sort of sort and reassemble the data,

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but that kind of solution would work terribly for real-time applications like online games,

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and they insisted it wouldn't add much latency even,

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which turned out to be true.

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Well, it's actually a lot closer to alternate frame rendering SLI

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than it is to how a load balancing router would work.

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Instead of being based on a user session,

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individual packets are actually divided completely,

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between the two connections.

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So my game data stream, full of bunny hops and headshots,

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goes into the black box, which splits it evenly,

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sends it across the internet to ITEL's nearest data center,

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for me that's in Vancouver,

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where a much more powerful box called an aggregator

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sorts it out, accounting for small differences in delivery time,

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and forwards it, in order, to wherever it's supposed to go.

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At least that's how it works when you have two identifiers.

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There is some more latency and bandwidth overhead involved in bonding connections with different speeds,

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let's say a 20 megabit and a 10 megabit,

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and bonding grossly different connections,

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like a 50 meg and 5 meg, isn't recommended at all,

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but for my application, it is perfect.

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And it works exactly the same way in reverse.

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Any game, website, or online service I use has no idea that I'm on a telecom,

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or that I can use it.

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connection at all, and only sees my static IP. It does cost money, like I said. The service is

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billed completely separately from the connections that you're bonding, a couple hundred dollars a

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month over the standalone cost in my case. But there's other cool stuff too. With multiple links,

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you can operate in bonding mode, failover mode, or something in between. So you could have like

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two bonded ADSL lines, and then a failover LTE line that could switch seamlessly without losing

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any uptime, and other business-grade stuff. We actually have an affiliate link to ITEL for the

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service below the video, like QoS services that prioritize VoIP traffic that can be done at the

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aggregator level. But for me, I just wanted to stack data limits and bandwidth caps, something

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that could be very useful for enthusiast consumers, and especially small businesses.

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Apparently, I'm not a big fan of the idea of a stack data limit, but I'm a big fan of the idea of

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festivals and movie shoots are actually asking them to bond together multiple LTE-A connections

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to get ballin' 500 megabit internet in locations where there aren't any wires. And unlike some of

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the other ways to get a better connection without spending, you know, it could be tens of thousands

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of dollars on a fiber installation, it actually works.

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I've actually got our old

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non-Amazon affiliate compliant outro here.

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This is a video I had started a long time ago

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and not finished.

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So that's why this is coming across kind of awkward,

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but awkwardness over now, video done, bye.