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Comment Re:Hi Alex, (Score 5, Informative) 163

by lewdavis (#43864533) Attached to: Slashdot Killed My Kickstarter Campaign
Hi, This is Dave, the lead developer on Switchboard. Alex had to step into a meeting, so I'll be sitting in for him for a bit. It's not exactly a switch in the traditional sense, but the Switchboard code takes into account bandwidth, latency and loss to decide which connection to send traffic over in a bonded channel. Thanks for the questions, and keep them coming! Dave

Submission + - Slashdot killed my Kickstarter campaign

Submitted by agizis
agizis writes: Alex from Connectify here. I wanted to say thanks to all of you who commented on the Slashdot story about our Kickstarter campaign It was super-educational discussing Switchboard with all of you: you wanted your own servers, and we weren’t doing enough to communicate what was so special about Switchboard. Based in a large part on your feedback, we blew up our Kickstarter campaign, and changed almost everything. Thanks, Slashdot. This isn’t reddit, but ask me anything.

Submission + - Seamless Channel Bonding (engadget.com) 2

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Channel bonding over the Internet is a notoriously hard problem, with even the best tools in Linux just using round robin to combine identical connections. But that might be changing, as Connectify, the spook backed networking software company has announced new channel bonding software that claims to use bandwidth, latency and reliability metrics to perfectly bond any Internet connections together. Engadget has tried it and said their "test of the beta software on our end has worked seamlessly so far, requiring just a software installation and two or more internet connections (two ADSL lines in our case)."

Submission + - Making Wireless Carriers Play Together 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Ok, so the idea of opening all Wi-Fi networks in a misthought utopian vision didn’t go over so well. But no one discussed the best part of open Wi-Fi networks: bonding different Wi-Fi and mobile carriers to get the best price and decent performance. We could save money and avoid lock in by bouncing to whoever gives us the best rate, and, when we need speed, jump on all of them at once for a network bonded boost.

Submission + - Kickstarter Technology Projects Ship

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Shocking Kickstarter news this morning, not only did I actually I receive my Brydge this morning, but a Kickstarter software project shipped on time! Connectify Dispatch, the load balancing software for Windows, was released today as well. Perhaps the Kickstarter model of funding technology is not nearly as doomed as some naysayers here would have it. Why are so many here hostile to crowdsourcing? Shouldn’t we be glad to have Venture Capitalists cut out of the loop so that companies actually listen to us?
Wireless Networking

Submission + - 10 Internet Connections at Same Time (connectify.me) 4

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: As a follow up to the story about Verizon being forced to allow tethering, the engineers at Connectify climbed on the roof and made a video showing an 85Mbps download rate through a combination of a tethered Verizon mobile phone and ALL of the available open Wi-Fi networks. It’s a darn shame that they cancelled the unlimited 3G on the Kindle, tether 20 of those bad boys and you could have had a real Internet connection.

Submission + - 2 Years Since Landing on Slashdot (connectify.me)

Submitted by
agizis
agizis writes: "We want to take a moment during our birthday week to thank the Slashdot community. Slashdot was instrumental in helping us bring Connectify to tens-of-thousands of early-adopters who downloaded the first Connectify Beta, way back in 2009. The day we consider our oebirthday is October 27th, 2009. On that day, Connectify went from being an app that a few of us used on business trips, to a piece of software used by thousands of people around-the-world. A short post on Slashdot was the turning-point for Connectify, and the blogs and sites that quickly picked up on our application from there helped Connectify grow by leaps-and-bounds in a matter of days.

Thank you, Slashdot."
XBox (Games)

Submission + - Ask Slashdot: New X-Box in My Dorm, Help 5

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: I pulled the trigger on Microsoft's back to school offer and picked up the Windows 7 laptop with free X-Box 360. Unfortunately, now that I've arrived back at school, I'm stuck. My [Anonymous Philadelphia Area] University has gone to an all WiFi network, and they only allow us one MAC address on the network per student. I know that if it were an Ethernet network, I could just buy myself a router, but that doesn't work for Wi-Fi. And they don't allow wireless routers, even if I could do some kind of MAC spoofing on one of these. Is there a good solution, or do I need to drop Calc 3 and sign up for Advanced Networking just to feed my gaming jones after class.

I really don't want to choose between the laptop and the X-Box, because I just might choose the X-Box. So what do you think, Slashdot, how can I get multiple machines onto a Wi-Fi network that only allows a single MAC address?

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