[CS-FSLUG] Raspberry Pi or Pine64 with Speedify

[Timothy Butler]

Sorry I missed this earlier, Eduardo, but I know what you mean. It’s funny to think a device that is almost disposable in cost can emulate my first computer (a TI 99/4A) and still have plenty of power to do other things at the same time.

I’m not entirely impressed by the Pine64, though. Unlike the Raspberry Pi, most distros for the Pine64 seem to have major caveats. It wasn’t my best Kickstarter investment…

Side note: Speedify has proven to be invaluable for keeping live streams streaming without bumps!

Tim

Timothy Butler
tbutler at ofb.biz

"The best theology would need no advocates: it would prove itself." —Karl Barth

> On Oct 20, 2020, at 4:27 PM, Eduardo Sanchez <lists at sombragris.org> wrote:
> 
> Absolutely no idea but I hope you're successful with the Pine64.
> 
> This shows my age, but coming from the age of 8-bit processors in
> micro-computers and 32-bit processing power on mainframes, it almost
> bothers me to see such humongous processing power available in embedded
> devices which are casually thrown and discarded.
> 
> Blessings,
> 
> 
> Eduardo
> 
> -- On Mon, 19 Oct 2020 11:49:48 -0500, the Hon. Member Timothy Butler
> <tbutler at ofb.biz <mailto:tbutler at ofb.biz>> spoke thusly:
> 
>>> Hi, everyone,
>>> I hope all of you are doing well!
>>> 
>>> I’ve been toying around with Speedify, which is a VPN whose primary
>>> purpose isn’t so much the VPN itself, but an intelligent network
>>> bonding system to keep the internet up — something that has been
>>> relevant for me as of late with my Charter Spectrum losing packets
>>> (or going down entirely) at inopportune times. I’ve been using
>>> Speedify this past week to fall over to my iPhone hotspot when the
>>> Internet gets bumpy… so far, so good.
>>> 
>>> So, two questions:
>>> 
>>> 1.) I’m wondering if there might be a simple way to ditch the service
>>> and simply use a Raspberry Pi (or, better yet, a Pine64, since I have
>>> one of those collecting dust) to do something similar, grabbing
>>> Internet from my cell phone if the main line goes down or starts to
>>> lose packets). I’m sure it is possible, although one intriguing
>>> aspect of Speedify is the simplicity, which is nice, because the last
>>> thing you want on a project like this is for it to go down because of
>>> some messed up setting...
>>> 
>>> 2.) Speedify says it supports running on a Raspberry Pi — before I
>>> purchase another one for that purpose, has anyone tried running it on
>>> one?
>>> 
>>> Blessings,
>>> Tim
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Timothy Butler
>>> tbutler at ofb.biz
>>> 
>>> "The best theology would need no advocates: it would prove itself."
>>> —Karl Barth
>>> 
> 
> 
> -- 
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