Experimental: Bridging Rain 24/7 and Unlimitted

[ghostRgg]

So long story short I have been messing around with a B618-22d and some other small wifi router. With a poynting xpol-6 we managed to use one half of the antenna for the one router, the other half for the other. Download was 22 and 3 on the unlimited and 8/10mbps on the other.

I'm over how buggered their network is when I try test gimmicks and such. The moment we try to mess with an antenna, both LTE servers **** the bed and we never knew if it's our configuration or rain's network just limiting us now, but that's a topic for another time. Along with the annoying thing where this terrible MiFi with low signal and one antenna connection can get a 14/20 on the Unlimited but throw the 24/7 sim and it dies at 4/7. Makes no sense and feels like a network error.

Let's not talk about how scuffed my one network setup is for the mini wifi router. I have that thing tethered via USB -> Macbook with Ubuntu -> Network shared via Ethernet -> Asus Gigabit router -> PC's (this method broke now WHO KNOWS WHY but even works with a phone). We have two network cards, one for Rain 24/7 and one for Rain Unlimited.

Does anybody have any ideas as to how I can bridge these two SIMs into one connection?

So during the day/late night, we have around 40-60mbps download and 15 up (combined), then during peak hours, we can get our usual 10/4 connection.

 

[Kosmik]

So long story short I have been messing around with a B618-22d and some other small wifi router. With a poynting xpol-6 we managed to use one half of the antenna for the one router, the other half for the other. Download was 22 and 3 on the unlimited and 8/10mbps on the other.

I'm over how buggered their network is when I try test gimmicks and such. The moment we try to mess with an antenna, both LTE servers **** the bed and we never knew if it's our configuration or rain's network just limiting us now, but that's a topic for another time. Along with the annoying thing where this terrible MiFi with low signal and one antenna connection can get a 14/20 on the Unlimited but throw the 24/7 sim and it dies at 4/7. Makes no sense and feels like a network error.

Let's not talk about how scuffed my one network setup is for the mini wifi router. I have that thing tethered via USB -> Macbook with Ubuntu -> Network shared via Ethernet -> Asus Gigabit router -> PC's (this method broke now WHO KNOWS WHY but even works with a phone). We have two network cards, one for Rain 24/7 and one for Rain Unlimited.

Does anybody have any ideas as to how I can bridge these two SIMs into one connection?

So during the day/late night, we have around 40-60mbps download and 15 up (combined), then during peak hours, we can get our usual 10/4 connection.

You could probably leverage a load ballancer. I used a tp link r470T+ to do time based policy switching but you could probably do a merge rule. I know it can do bonding as well.

 

[rick9k]

Try the vpn speedify , you can add as many connections to the internet as possible and let it combine them all, install it on your ubuntu and make it a gateway for the rest of your network, And you can try if for free

 

[Budza]

Dispatch Proxy for joining Wifi and Ethernet connections

So Yuu advised me about it. Running Telkom LTE-A uncapped and Rain Mobile uncapped I wanted to test it. Results are pretty impressive especially for the speed seekers. My Setup: Windows 10 Latest Nodejs Telkom Uncapped sim in Huawei B618s-65d connected to pc with Ethernet Rain Mobile uncapped...

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Would this work?

 

[rick9k]

" Now Dispatch can't split single connections between two connections ".. but speedify can

 

[Budza]

" Now Dispatch can't split single connections between two connections ".. but speedify can

I tried Speedify and it wasn't that great. The free limits allow for brief testing but that's about it.

As far as I can tell, Speedify is the only option for combining traffic.

Dispatch helps with general browsing and multiple users/downloads but obviously for single threads you're still limited to a particular connection.

In my case I was trying to combine R250 Rain @~15MB/3MB with 10MB/5MB fibre.

It's 50/50 which connection you'd get for any one task with Dispatch.

Towards 18:00 Rain would slow down and I could be stuck with a download going at 6MB via Rain instead of 10MB via fibre.

Neither solved my WFH needs, so eventually I gave up on the whole thing and cancelled Rain.

For torrents etc you may see different results.