Windows 7 hotspot hacker turns to software bonding
The company responsible for hacking a Wi-Fi hotspot into Windows 7 is
turning its hand to software bonding, promising tens of megabits over
the slowest of cellular connections
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The company has prototype Windows code which can bond multiple IP
connections into a single stream, merging multiple Wi-Fi, cellular or
physical connections to provide one IP address with serious
connectivity, assuming one has the USB ports to spare
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Bonding IP connections together is nothing new, Be will happily glue
together multiple ADSL lines for the home user who wants a little more
poke, while SharedBand does the same thing across multiple ISPs for
those who want reliability as well as speed. But those offerings require
special routers and cloud-based...