Comments on: Three Startups That Want to Deliver a Fat Mobile Pipe

By: JP

JP — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 16:38:40 +0000

You can also look at Elfiq's products (www.elfiq.com) for similar functionality, and you can use any IP link out there.

By: john west

john west — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 02:14:30 +0000

A business associate just noted that Waav’s Airbox supports “bonding” the connection from multiple 3G cards together for a fat pipe. Not sure I like “bonding” better than bandwidth aggregation, but it is a twitter world, after all.

John [at] WowzaMedia

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By: John West

John West — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 02:14:25 +0000

An interesting new backpack is available for live video which supports bandwidth aggregation of multiple 3g cards. Video available on their twitter stream. see @liveu

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By: Jesse Kopelman

Jesse Kopelman — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:52:00 +0000

Whether your idea would work or not depends a lot on how the network is implemented. If there is only a single base-station radio, connecting to it via multiple client radios is not necessarily going to be any faster than connecting to it with a single client radio. For your idea to work you need a situation where the client radios are artificially speed constrained or the network is designed with multiple radios serving any given location and the ability to assign users based on loading and not just signal strength. In the first of those cases I’d think the network operator would be really upset by lots of people doing what you propose and take steps to eliminate the problem by any means necessary. The example you give of just randomly connecting to open hotspots is only going to work if your connection management software is smart enough to make and break connections based on available bandwidth and not just signal strength and even then would only work in an environment with many available open hotspots serving a given location.

By: Robert Reddick

Robert Reddick — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:27:08 +0000

Our company, Lucky You Films, luckyyoufilms.com, uses Mushroom Networks equipment. Their PortaBella box allowed our group to setup on-the-fly bandwidth for location shoots. In our first project, The Last Passport movie we live-webcast the entire film production process, something that was much easier to pull off with the PortaBella. Speaking to support, and to Cahit Akin and his crew.. like most folks in media would probably do, we pounded their phones odd-hours and off days to get things right, and for tweaks and they didn’t blink. Great product, great service.

By: Stacey Higginbotham

Stacey Higginbotham — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:17:49 +0000

thanks Stefan, I’ll check that out.

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By: tom

tom — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:57:39 +0000

if free(but slow) muni broadband ever gets popular I could see a certain niche market for a device(or software) that allows a single computer to make a bunch of connection to the closest tower and therefore have much higher speeds than intended. in fact i can see this alomost becoming the norm on places such as university’s. of course even if there is no official free wifi such a setup would work for people who connect to open routers whereever they are(lots of people do this as there only internet access). a software only solution that uses the wifi radio built into laptops/netbooks is really the ideal solution.

By: Stefan Mokros

Stefan Mokros — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:28:01 +0000

The German company Viprinet offers a similar product: http://www.viprinet.com/en/home