Closed spacesuitdiver closed 1 month ago
TalalMash
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1 month ago Family plan exists with similar consumption and lower costs (e.g multiple laptops/phones), I hope they implement monthly traffic limit for routers in the future...
It seems like they year+ delay for the official release is held back by their partner product release dates: https://speedify.com/enterprise/#poweredbyspeedify Hopefully these won't have the additional fee...
bt61
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1 month ago Where does that "router subscription" link take you? I've never seen any mention of a router specific subscription.
They have been advertising using a Pi as a (linux) router for years, but there are real server costs that scale with throughput, so it's also understandable that they have some limits. They said on the last livestream that the OpenWRT beta was ready for release (where??), but I don't think they have ever specifically addressed if that will be usable on standard individual plans.
spacesuitdiver
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1 month ago I did receive a support response and the router message was not why I was not connecting to Speedify.
I’m using an X3000 and at first just had the cell modem but adding a wwan I was able to get connected but no internet connection so I reset my router because tinker time was over 😅
I’ll post my network config tomorrow, I don’t want to spend a ton of time as I’ll likely switch to two eth connected modems and WWAN soon.
spacesuitdiver
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1 month ago They said on the last livestream that the OpenWRT beta was ready for release (where??)
I thought they were hinting at selling their own router… support engineer wouldn’t spill the beans.
bt61
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1 month ago Some searching revealed this page: https://speedify.com/mvd-router-one/ as well as this preview video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQAa6SxgkyQ
That's clearly enterprise focused, and I hope what they are indicating with the $450/yr router plan they linked for you. On the Office Hours streams they have referenced supporting OpenWRT with consumer devices such as GL.iNet routers, Raspberry Pi, and Banana Pi. It has seemed like the OpenWRT package will be a free software and not require any different tier of service, but I'm not sure they've explicitly stated that or not.
I guess I would not be surprised if they find the OpenWRT support as a new revenue stream rather than just a way to sell more regular subscriptions. That would explain why they have always seemed to reluctantantly discuss Smoothwan on the stream.
umekzg
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5 days ago That's a Magewell Pro Route... Still in beta, not released yet.
I was giving this a spin again, I historically had been using a Raspberry Pi but it looks like Speedify is now detecting this installation method as a "Router". I contacted support for some help because their article seems to indicate you just need an individual account and that OpenWRT routers are unsupported. Nothing about $45/mo just to use this on an unsupported device.
What a bummer!