What Is a Link Aggregation Router?
A link aggregation router combines several internet connections into one faster link, and it works – provided you are willing to buy, install and maintain one at every location that needs it.
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We explain what a link aggregation router is, whether aggregation really increases speed, and where software beats a box.
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Does Link Aggregation Increase Speed?
By combining multiple physical links into a single logical link, link aggregation can effectively increase the bandwidth available for data transfer.
However, it’s important to note that the actual speed increase depends on various factors, including the number of aggregated links, the speed of each individual link, and the specific network traffic patterns.
Software Link Aggregation – Better than a Link Aggregation Router
When you’re traveling, you need fast and steady internet, which is not easy to find. Since you cannot use your link aggregation router wherever you go, you need to rely on software tools to combine wireless networks on your device.
You’ll find a number of link aggregation solutions but they aren’t smart. They take a number of networks and blindly split the traffic onto each network in a round robin fashion.
If you want to prioritize the use of one network over others, you need an intelligent software link aggregation solution. For example, you might want to combine Wi-Fi with your mobile data, but mainly use the Wi-Fi to save on cellular.
A smart software link aggregation solution combines several networks in the way you want and offers automatic failover protection. So, even if one network goes down, you can still be able to use the internet.
Speedify Is Smarter than a Link Aggregation Router
Speedify is a software link aggregation app that performs several functions. It doesn’t just combine multiple networks but it uses the networks in an intelligent way too.
For example, on your smartphone, if you’re using Wi-Fi and the connection becomes bad, it will automatically shift your traffic to your mobile data. And once you get the signal back, your data is again routed through it instead of the mobile connection.
Speedify works even when there’s just one connection. It automatically detects packet loss and resends the required packets before the loss is noticed by any app.
Wireless connections are more prone to packet loss. If your connection drops even 1% of packets while transmitting, you will notice a considerable increase in speeds using Speedify.
Apart from these functions, Speedify also acts as a VPN, which means it protects your online privacy. It also protects you from hackers and snoopers and removes geo-blocks.
How Speedify Is a Better Alternative to Link Aggregation Routers
We’ll give you not one but many reasons:
- Easy to use – it offers easy link aggregation that is done with an app directly on your computer or mobile device.
- Lower costs – there’s no need to buy special hardware.
- More flexibility – you won’t be limited to 2 Ethernet connections or even to a power cable for the link aggregation router.
- Intelligent bonding – it manages networks automatically instead of blindly directing traffic to all channels. It also supports rules.
- Gets you better internet with only one connection by minimizing packet loss.
- Protects your online privacy – it is also a VPN that secures you from hackers and other malicious online entities.
- Unblocks restricted content by bypassing geo-blocks.
- Available on multiple platforms – Speedify is available on Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android. It is super simple to use. Just open the app and add the networks that you want to link. Now click on the toggle button and you’ll experience faster, steadier, and safer internet.
Speedify makes link aggregation more cost effective by cutting the hardware costs and offering multiple services at the cost of one.
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Link Aggregation Benefits Explained
In computer networking context, link aggregation refers to combining (aggregating) multiple network connections at the same time. This brings two main benefits:
- increases throughput to near the combined value of the connections being combined
- provides redundancy in case some of the links fail.
A typical link aggregation implementation is usually associated with expensive hardware devices. These include enterprise-grade routers, switches and other networking equipment. You’re looking at least at some hundreds of dollars out of your budget. Nowadays, smart link aggregation software apps do exactly the same thing as a link aggregation router, only for a fraction of the price.
Meet Speedify – the secure link aggregation router software app! It works on Android, iOS, Windows, macOS, Linux and OpenWrt routers, with no need for bulky, expensive hardware!
Speedify is a faster mobile alternative to traditional link aggregation routers from companies such as Avaya, Cisco, Juniper, Synology and others. Find out more below!
Performance of Speedify Link Aggregation Router Software Alternative – Bonding Efficiency and Packet Loss Recovery Rate
As Speedify was built with the core ability to combine 2 or more Internet connections at once, the focus has always been on:
- Increasing the efficiency of link aggregation (bonding efficiency)
- Minimizing packet loss
In terms of bonding efficiency, you can get as high as 95% according to our latest tests. This number depends on the connection types and speeds:
- it is higher when combining similar connections
- may go lower if there is huge difference in latency between the connections.
Here’s an example of how we calculate the Speedify link aggregation efficiency:
- let’s assume we’re combining an Ethernet link with a WiFi network.
- The real transfer rate of the Ethernet network is 95 Mbps and the WiFi does 45 Mbps.
- The theoretical link aggregation rate is 95 + 45 = 140 Mbps.
- However – the real rate is lower, but with Speedify you should get up to 95% of that = 133 Mbps.
When it comes to connections with packet loss Speedify often speeds things up dramatically. Combining 2 connections with 5% packet loss, Speedify increases the bandwidth of the resulting connection by 300%, compared to running a single connection without Speedify.
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