I can only presume that speedtest.net uses multiple simultaneous TCP streams when performing a speed test (like the TBB HTTPx6 does). I also presume that all the software is doing is tracking individual connections and balancing them across the interfaces as required to achieve the best overall throughput.

If the speed test was just a single TCP stream, there would be no speed increase as that would have to begin, transfer and terminate all on the same interface (you can't just chop a TCP session midway onto another interface with a totally different WAN IP address).

Clever software, but hardly ground breaking if you consider how it must work to achieve what it does. And as MHC says, it does not increase the speed of your broadband. It allows your local network to utilise the potential speed of several different network (broadband) connections to multiplex layer-4 protocols (TCP/UDP) across them to maximise the total available bandwidth across all those connections.

Edited by deleted (Sat 30-Aug-14 19:50:31)

In reply to a post by MHC:

Read the original post:

If u have more than 2 lines of FTTC or have both mixed 1 x FTTC and 1 x Cable as this software called Connectify Dispatch Pro will make your broadband speed go faster.

How can it be faster?

I think you're just being very picky with words.

Because unless you have a bonding/load balancing router you can't use both at the same time for the same purpose. The term 'Broadband Speed' is presumably the speed in general.

By using this software you can join both together and make your general broadband speed faster.

Think of it as a car (Broadband) with two engines.

With one engine the car has 150Hp, with the other it has 50Hp.

If you can put them together (Connectify) in the same car, you can (To some extent) improve your overall horsepower (Broadband speed) and make your car go faster. Otherwise you'll just be stuck with one engine.

In reply to a post by chris6273:

I think you're just being very picky with words.

No,

I am being accurate. IT DOES NOT MAKE THE BROADBAND SPEED ANY FASTER.

You are right, but the way you are pointing you're point across (or not as it happens) is just lowering people's opinion of you.

No it's doesn't make the broadband any faster, because the broadband speed in the way you are meaning is each individual connection. But the throughput when using the software is increased, which is the way the majority of people have interpreted it.

In reply to a post by MHC:

In reply to a post by chris6273:

I think you're just being very picky with words.

No,

I am being accurate. IT DOES NOT MAKE THE BROADBAND SPEED ANY FASTER.

There's no need to shout. Besides it's very easy to understand what the OP was trying to say.

Edited by chris6273 (Sun 31-Aug-14 11:59:46)

Yes, it's gone very quiet.

It's worth noting that they have an offer on that reduces the cost of a lifetime licence for up to 3 PCs from £40 down to £14 which is what I did. Works well although I could only test it with a very poor adjacent Wi-Fi signal on the second NIC to get an additional 4Mb overall via speed test. I'm toying with taking up a no-contract VDSL trial for a month on my other line to see how it works in anger.

Does this package actually do anything that can't be done already for free? WiFi AP, internet connection sharing, bridged ethernet? Yes, even Windows can do these things. Load balancing router? Yes, both Windows 7 and 8 can do this too, built in.