[CS-FSLUG] Raspberry Pi or Pine64 with Speedify

[Timothy Butler]

Thanks. I’ll have to play with it. Speedify is impressively simple — and seems to work in virtually real time to fight packet loss — although I wouldn’t mind cutting out the VPN “middleman.”

Tim

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> On Oct 19, 2020, at 2:14 PM, Tim Young <Tim.Young at lightsys.org> wrote:
> 
> I have never done this.  The PIs do OK with network traffic. They are terrible with most disk IO.
> 
> I have run a filtering DNS server on a PI 3 that served 5000 people, and it worked fine.  So I suspect that it would work well enough as a router for a small connection.  Something like: https://zeroshell.org/load-balancing-failover/
> 
> I have not used this, but it does seem that people have done it...  Definitely not as simple as speedify.
> 
>     - Tim Young
> 
>> On 10/19/2020 11:49 AM, Timothy Butler wrote:
>> 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*
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