WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:07.560 What if I told you that you can double, triple, or even quadruple your internet speed with one easy trick? 00:00:08.320 --> 00:00:09.600 Well, you'd probably say, 00:00:09.860 --> 00:00:11.120 Yeah, I've heard that before! 00:00:11.460 --> 00:00:14.980 This asshole told me to duct tape my belt to my network cable, 00:00:15.280 --> 00:00:17.220 then laughed at me when my pants fell down. 00:00:17.460 --> 00:00:18.420 But wait! 00:00:19.060 --> 00:00:20.800 This time it's actually real! 00:00:21.280 --> 00:00:24.520 Our internet service provider here at Linus Media Group, 00:00:24.520 --> 00:00:29.000 ITEL Networks, sent us this fancy box 00:00:29.000 --> 00:00:33.720 that allows you to bond together multiple internet connections 00:00:33.720 --> 00:00:37.220 in what is effectively internet SLI. 00:00:37.580 --> 00:00:40.260 And I've been using it for the last three months. 00:00:40.600 --> 00:00:45.420 So let's talk about some pretty cool network magic and how it works. 00:00:55.340 --> 00:00:58.600 GFuel is the sugar-free alternative energy beverage 00:00:58.600 --> 00:01:02.440 to maintain focus and endurance over long days and gaming sessions. 00:01:02.440 --> 00:01:03.440 Save some money, 00:01:03.480 --> 00:01:06.440 using code Linus at the link in the video description. 00:01:07.130 --> 00:01:08.650 Let's get this out of the way. 00:01:08.650 --> 00:01:11.050 Bonded internet is faster, 00:01:11.050 --> 00:01:13.050 but it is not free. 00:01:13.050 --> 00:01:15.870 If you've tried the free ways to get faster internet, 00:01:15.870 --> 00:01:17.790 you'll know that they don't work anyway, though, 00:01:17.790 --> 00:01:19.790 so that shouldn't come as much of a surprise. 00:01:19.790 --> 00:01:21.790 So what's the point of making this video? 00:01:21.790 --> 00:01:24.590 And what is the point of bonding at all then, Linus? 00:01:24.590 --> 00:01:27.010 If I wanted a faster internet connection, 00:01:27.010 --> 00:01:30.930 I could just buy a faster internet connection like you did. 00:01:30.930 --> 00:01:32.110 No voodoo required. 00:01:32.470 --> 00:01:32.970 Well, 00:01:32.970 --> 00:01:34.290 there are a number of reasons, 00:01:34.290 --> 00:01:35.730 but I'll start with mine, 00:01:35.730 --> 00:01:38.450 since it actually covers a few of the most common ones. 00:01:39.050 --> 00:01:41.250 Now, the office here is fine, 00:01:41.250 --> 00:01:43.090 but at my house, 00:01:43.090 --> 00:01:45.090 at the time of setting this up, 00:01:45.090 --> 00:01:48.990 the fastest download speed I could get was 100 megabit, 00:01:48.990 --> 00:01:55.790 and the fastest upload speed available on a residential ADSL or cable line was 10 megabit, 00:01:55.790 --> 00:01:59.550 which is great for uploading the odd cat video to Facebook, 00:01:59.550 --> 00:02:00.530 but I have experienced some data loss scares recently, 00:02:00.530 --> 00:02:01.090 but I have experienced some data loss scares recently, 00:02:01.090 --> 00:02:01.590 but I have experienced some data loss scares recently, 00:02:01.590 --> 00:02:02.090 but I have experienced some data loss scares recently, 00:02:02.090 --> 00:02:02.590 but I have experienced some data loss scares recently, 00:02:02.970 --> 00:02:03.470 but I have experienced some data loss scares recently, 00:02:03.470 --> 00:02:07.730 and I wanted to set up an off-site backup for my storage box, 00:02:07.730 --> 00:02:12.990 meaning that I could easily be transferring multiple gigs of data in a single day. 00:02:12.990 --> 00:02:16.750 And there's also the issue of dynamic IP addresses. 00:02:16.750 --> 00:02:19.130 Even fairly basic uses, 00:02:19.130 --> 00:02:21.650 like hosting an FTP file server, 00:02:21.650 --> 00:02:26.490 require a static IP address to avoid unexpected downtime, 00:02:26.490 --> 00:02:29.410 not included with most residential connections. 00:02:29.410 --> 00:02:31.590 And then further complicating matters, 00:02:31.590 --> 00:02:32.090 many ISPs, 00:02:32.090 --> 00:02:37.530 also block some of the common ports associated with hosting websites, 00:02:37.530 --> 00:02:38.610 mail servers, 00:02:38.610 --> 00:02:41.300 or what have you. 00:02:41.300 --> 00:02:46.380 Now you might think then that the obvious solution would be to get a business connection. 00:02:46.380 --> 00:02:53.280 But while that would give me a static IP and all of my ports open for running servers or whatever, 00:02:53.280 --> 00:02:57.360 those cost significantly more than the residential ones, 00:02:57.360 --> 00:03:00.200 and to my shock and awe, 00:03:00.200 --> 00:03:01.740 are no faster, 00:03:01.740 --> 00:03:02.820 or in Telus' case, 00:03:02.820 --> 00:03:06.500 not even available in my area at the same speeds. 00:03:06.500 --> 00:03:13.200 So given then that a fiber build out to my house would cost about as much as a new car, 00:03:13.200 --> 00:03:20.900 ITEL suggested ordering multiple cheaper residential connections to my house and combining them. 00:03:20.900 --> 00:03:26.300 But the only way that I was aware of that that could work is with a load balancing router. 00:03:26.300 --> 00:03:28.900 It's a relatively affordable piece of hardware, 00:03:28.900 --> 00:03:32.340 but one that's considered more appropriate for failover, 00:03:32.340 --> 00:03:35.060 in the event that one connection goes down, 00:03:35.060 --> 00:03:39.300 or for distributing net traffic across multiple users. 00:03:39.300 --> 00:03:40.660 Like, for example, 00:03:40.660 --> 00:03:44.500 if two users are trying to watch two 4 megabit streams, 00:03:44.500 --> 00:03:47.380 that could work with two 5 megabit connections. 00:03:47.380 --> 00:03:51.460 But if one user was trying to stack those two 5 megabit connections, 00:03:51.460 --> 00:03:54.100 and watch a single 8 megabit video stream, 00:03:54.100 --> 00:03:56.660 load balancing would not be the solution. 00:03:56.660 --> 00:04:00.260 It turns out that they were talking about bonding. 00:04:00.260 --> 00:04:02.020 So the first step was to consider, 00:04:02.020 --> 00:04:07.140 was to convince TELUS that I actually needed two residential lines to my house. 00:04:07.140 --> 00:04:11.220 So I got two of the 50 down, 10 up packages, 00:04:11.220 --> 00:04:14.340 and the installers helped me run the phone lines to my server room, 00:04:14.340 --> 00:04:18.260 insisting the whole time that they'd be back in a week to take one of them out, 00:04:18.260 --> 00:04:21.140 when I found out that this wasn't going to work. 00:04:21.140 --> 00:04:26.820 This all took place back when I was doing the conclusion of personal rig update 2016. 00:04:26.820 --> 00:04:31.780 Next, I plugged both of those ADSL modems into this, 00:04:31.780 --> 00:04:34.100 and I was able to connect them to a black box, 00:04:34.100 --> 00:04:36.900 it's not actually black, I'm just calling it that because it's a mystery, 00:04:36.900 --> 00:04:39.460 that ITEL calls the Bonder. 00:04:39.460 --> 00:04:44.020 They actually have ones with six ports that can handle up to five connections, 00:04:44.020 --> 00:04:47.140 and 900 megabit symmetrical traffic, 00:04:47.140 --> 00:04:50.980 but mine is a fairly basic one designed for two internet connections, 00:04:50.980 --> 00:04:54.180 then a single connection back to my router, 00:04:54.180 --> 00:04:56.900 which after configuring my new static IP, 00:04:56.900 --> 00:04:59.940 something the TELUS techs also insisted wouldn't work, 00:04:59.940 --> 00:05:01.540 manages the rest of my network, 00:05:01.540 --> 00:05:04.420 and it works exactly the way it normally would. 00:05:04.420 --> 00:05:08.100 ITEL asked for about an hour or so to do some tuning, 00:05:08.100 --> 00:05:10.500 then I downloaded a game off steam, 00:05:10.500 --> 00:05:13.460 and boom, 10 megabyte per second downloads, 00:05:13.460 --> 00:05:16.260 as though I was on a single connection. 00:05:16.260 --> 00:05:17.940 But how can that be? 00:05:17.940 --> 00:05:20.740 For things like downloading large files, 00:05:20.740 --> 00:05:22.580 or watching streaming video, 00:05:22.580 --> 00:05:28.340 I mean, I could imagine that ITEL's box could have like large buffers inside of it, 00:05:28.340 --> 00:05:31.460 allowing it to sort of sort and reassemble the data, 00:05:31.460 --> 00:05:37.220 but that kind of solution would work terribly for real-time applications like online games, 00:05:37.220 --> 00:05:41.300 and they insisted it wouldn't add much latency even, 00:05:41.300 --> 00:05:43.780 which turned out to be true. 00:05:43.780 --> 00:05:49.300 Well, it's actually a lot closer to alternate frame rendering SLI 00:05:49.300 --> 00:05:52.500 than it is to how a load balancing router would work. 00:05:52.500 --> 00:05:56.100 Instead of being based on a user session, 00:05:56.100 --> 00:06:00.900 individual packets are actually divided completely, 00:06:01.460 --> 00:06:03.380 between the two connections. 00:06:03.380 --> 00:06:07.780 So my game data stream, full of bunny hops and headshots, 00:06:07.780 --> 00:06:11.620 goes into the black box, which splits it evenly, 00:06:11.620 --> 00:06:15.060 sends it across the internet to ITEL's nearest data center, 00:06:15.060 --> 00:06:16.740 for me that's in Vancouver, 00:06:16.740 --> 00:06:20.580 where a much more powerful box called an aggregator 00:06:20.580 --> 00:06:24.500 sorts it out, accounting for small differences in delivery time, 00:06:24.500 --> 00:06:29.300 and forwards it, in order, to wherever it's supposed to go. 00:06:29.300 --> 00:06:31.300 At least that's how it works when you have two identifiers. 00:06:31.300 --> 00:06:36.260 There is some more latency and bandwidth overhead involved in bonding connections with different speeds, 00:06:36.260 --> 00:06:40.100 let's say a 20 megabit and a 10 megabit, 00:06:40.100 --> 00:06:42.340 and bonding grossly different connections, 00:06:42.340 --> 00:06:45.620 like a 50 meg and 5 meg, isn't recommended at all, 00:06:45.620 --> 00:06:50.020 but for my application, it is perfect. 00:06:50.020 --> 00:06:53.300 And it works exactly the same way in reverse. 00:06:53.300 --> 00:07:00.100 Any game, website, or online service I use has no idea that I'm on a telecom, 00:07:00.100 --> 00:07:00.900 or that I can use it. 00:07:01.300 --> 00:07:09.020 connection at all, and only sees my static IP. It does cost money, like I said. The service is 00:07:09.020 --> 00:07:13.980 billed completely separately from the connections that you're bonding, a couple hundred dollars a 00:07:13.980 --> 00:07:20.200 month over the standalone cost in my case. But there's other cool stuff too. With multiple links, 00:07:20.280 --> 00:07:26.240 you can operate in bonding mode, failover mode, or something in between. So you could have like 00:07:26.240 --> 00:07:32.720 two bonded ADSL lines, and then a failover LTE line that could switch seamlessly without losing 00:07:32.720 --> 00:07:37.740 any uptime, and other business-grade stuff. We actually have an affiliate link to ITEL for the 00:07:37.740 --> 00:07:43.640 service below the video, like QoS services that prioritize VoIP traffic that can be done at the 00:07:43.640 --> 00:07:49.940 aggregator level. But for me, I just wanted to stack data limits and bandwidth caps, something 00:07:49.940 --> 00:07:55.240 that could be very useful for enthusiast consumers, and especially small businesses. 00:07:55.800 --> 00:07:56.220 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 00:07:56.220 --> 00:08:03.200 festivals and movie shoots are actually asking them to bond together multiple LTE-A connections 00:08:03.200 --> 00:08:11.120 to get ballin' 500 megabit internet in locations where there aren't any wires. And unlike some of 00:08:11.120 --> 00:08:16.000 the other ways to get a better connection without spending, you know, it could be tens of thousands 00:08:16.000 --> 00:08:20.140 of dollars on a fiber installation, it actually works. 00:08:21.220 --> 00:08:26.140 Speaking of things that actually work, FreshBooks. 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