Bonding Airtel Xstream Connections

[vanshnarula]

Does Airtel Xstream support bonding 2 connections to increase speed ?

PS: I am not referring to load balancing.

 

[shashankb]

Then how will you bond 2 connections ?
You will need a Dual WAN router

 

[a.c]

Afaik there are routers which take more than one connection as input and then split whatever you are doing at the packet level across the two network connections. In this case a single user can max out both connections. Though will need to check how it works exactly
Another kind of bonding is that a single user's max speed will still be limited by one connection but two users using max speed can max out both connections.

 

[netfreak]

Yes, you have three options :

1. Buy "Enterprise" connection from Airtel. All this will be "taken care of" for you. (Multipath connections so that fiber cut in one area does not impact, connections bonded on Airtel's end, VPN etc.)
2. Just get two connections and buy a VPN subscription that enables bonding (E.g.: Channel Bonding - Easily Combine Internet Connections! - Speedify ). You will need a router that will handle bonding and present a single pipe to rest of the setup.
3. Use PFSense / Openwrt router + a small VM in Azure / AWS / GCP / Oracle cloud to create your own mini VPN and use that with channel bonding

 

[shashankb]

@netfreak How does the third one work ? Isn't it one connection at his side anyways. How will the VM setup work ?
Are you saying PFsense/OpenWrt must have Dual WAN ?

 

[netfreak]

@shashankb with these OS, any connection can be used as WAN. Say a router has a switch with 4 LAN connections and 1 WAN connection. With Openwrt, it is possible to use all 5 as WAN and distribute internet via WiFi (not practical since most routers won't have CPU to process these many connections).

High level plan :

1. Get 2 or more internet connections (not all need to be fiber, one can experiment with 4G connections shared via WiFi as well)
2. Setup VPN on each WAN (tun0 over eth0, tun1 over eth1 or wlan0 and so on)
3. Bond tun0, tun1 via mwan3
4. Bridge the bonded connection so that it is exposed over WiFi and LAN

Tutorials :


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[RandomIndian]

High level plan :

1. Get 2 or more internet connections (not all need to be fiber, one can experiment with 4G connections shared via WiFi as well)
2. Setup VPN on each WAN (tun0 over eth0, tun1 over eth1 or wlan0 and so on)
3. Bond tun0, tun1 via mwan3
4. Bridge the bonded connection so that it is exposed over WiFi and LAN

But this would be load balancing right over multiple wans right ?
Channel bonding won't be possible with mwan3.
Could you please guide on how to achieve channel bonding via own VPN?

I have a multiwan router that already does load balancing, just need to setup VPN now.

 

[netfreak]

But this would be load balancing right over multiple wans right ?
Channel bonding won't be possible with mwan3.

Yes, from mwan point of view, it is load balancing. That's why we need VPN as well.

You needto use tun0 , tun1 (instead of eth0, eth1) with mwan. If both tun0 and tun1 terminate on the same VPN, VPN server can bond these 2 at that end.

Does that make sense ?

I have a multiwan router that

Which router do you have and what OS does it run ?

 

[RandomIndian]

Which router do you have and what OS does it run ?

TL-605 is the router I have. Will this work with Speedify ?

 

[imdarkray]

If you are open to DIY and have a VPS or ready to buy one, you can follow this Video to install OPENMPTCPROUTER which works for aggregating internet connection with help of MPTCP.


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P.S. This is not just for Airtel Xstream fiber.