rlindsberg
commented
6 years ago Hi and thank you for your input. It's definitely a great idea for the next release. In reality, not only the bandwidth is important, the cost of the connection and the reliability of it should also be considered. My plan is to write a test, like you mentioned, to measure bandwidth when user is idling as well as the ping difference between two connections/data loss rates so that the system can automatically balance the traffic.Lovely to hear that you have a similar idea!
bruno-robert
Unknown78
vaaino
Since I see there is a new collaborator I will post this idea here. I've been using a service called Speedify recently and it seems to balance the load between my two connections depending on the bandwidth of the connections.
Basically, my idea is instead of setting how many times you want dispatch-proxy to use a connection out of the total (by using:
10.0.0.0@7 10.0.0.1@3), dispatch-proxy will update those values at runtime depending on how fast each connection is (a faster connections proportional use would increase proportionally to its bandwidth / the total bandwidth, and slower connections proportional use would decrease). This would improve the quality of the overall connection since you would use "more" of the fast connection and "less" of the smaller connection.Don't hesitate to ask if I wasn't clear at some point.