So I’ll ask you a specific question since there’s a community: the requirement is to connect five connections together to run Sky TV on 47 rooms.
So, is Nethsecurity 8 or Uania better?
NethSecurity 8 does multi-WAN load balancing/failover (mwan3): each connection/session gets routed over one of the 5 lines, with failover if a line drops. It doesn’t bond lines together to boost a single stream’s bandwidth.
If each room just needs its own stream and the 5 lines together give enough total bandwidth, NethSecurity handles that fine.
If you need one single stream to exceed one line’s speed, that’s bonding — NethSecurity won’t do it, Uania will.
Worth noting too: NethSecurity is open source, so you can inspect and modify how it works. Uania is a closed, proprietary appliance + cloud service, so you’re relying entirely on the vendor for support and updates.
What’s your setup: independent stream per room, or one feed distributed internally?
Hi stephdl
the project these 5 FWA connectivity, the fiber does not arrive, to add them with uania, therefore a single flow that will be distributed in the various rooms…
They average 50 MB with speedtest, and with Unia they can bring it to 250 MB.
Thanks for your help.
Sorry for the broken English.
Howdy and welcome!
Let me start with the basics: you cannot join together WANs to add throughput, something else must be added to it. This is due to how networking works, nothing we can do about it.
So how do they do that? By giving you a remote network proxy.
There’s a remote server that your uania box connects to, passing through that all the traffic. By giving an example: if my PC asks for X service, the uania box splits the data into several WANs and sends them to the proxy, the proxy at that point assembles the information, makes the request, and make the data return to the uania box split into the different WANs again, which the box then assembles and passes back to the PC.
This means that when getting a UaniaBox, you’ll likely need the UaniaCloud in some sort to make this work, the box alone won’t do it.
This splitting will hurt performance, even if just by a little, I am not sure since I haven’t tried, but 5 connections at 50 won’t magically become a single 250, some performance might get lost somewhere through retransmission and split/assemble.
For a video streaming this might be acceptable, for other use cases I have no clue.
You can download NethSecurity and set all 5 WANs to balance mode to try how it handles it, but due to the QUIC nature of the video streaming you’ll be likely sticking to a single connection when the streaming starts. There’s the multipath specification for QUIC that allows to use different network interfaces to download from multiple sources, but implementation is a long way to go.