Having a constant stream of things to grab my attention when walking through new places has been the most rewarding aspect of my OpenStreetMap contributor to general infrastructure nerd journey. Life outside is so much more interesting and that's despite an increase of screen time.
OSM Änderungssatzkommentar-Perle
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It's hard to say how much speedup I really got, because mobile network reception is very unreliable here. But Wireshark confirmed both connections were being used and it seemed like a ~50 Mbit/s 5G NSA connection was combined with 50 Mbit/s VDSL to make 95 Mbit/s (I ran two speedtests in quick succession to compare them). I feel a bit silly for how much I researched different ways of combining multiple connections when all it needed was a simple TCP proxy.
I just tried multipath TCP on Linux and was surprised how easy it was. The idea was to be able to plug my phone into my Laptop and momentarily boost my download speeds. Because few content servers natively support MPTCP, I used a shadowsocks proxy to tunnel to a VPS. Other than that, all I had to was plug in my phone via USB, enable tethering and disable USB debugging. The necessary kernel options were already set and NetworkManager automatically configured the subflows.
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