Live Event Streaming Setup

Hi Niek,

Just a question, are you aware that just the Peplink Balance 380 is not enough for bandwidth bonding?
SpeedFusion is a VPN technology, which means you will have to set up a VPN tunnel to another Peplink device, for example in a data center or at your main office.

Bonding 3 SIM-cards of the same provider in a SpeedFusion VPN tunnel does not give great results.
The cellular tower sees the SpeedFusion VPN tunnel as one data session, thus dividing the bandwidth you get over the 3 SIM-cards.
If you would normally get 4 Mbps on one SIM-card, you will get around 1,33 Mbps per SIM-card while bonding.
We’ve also seen cases where only one SIM-card would get full speed, and the other SIM-cards would get nearly 0 bandwidth.

For SpeedFusion to be viable with one provider, you will need to use a different frequency on each SIM-card.
Your user name sounds Dutch to me, so I will be giving Vodafone NL as an example.
Vodafone NL supports 3 LTE frequencies (800 MHz, 1800 MHz and 2600 MHz), but you can never be really sure if all frequencies have a good signal in the area you’re going to be streaming.

I would suggest using KPN, Vodafone and T-Mobile together, this will give you much better results.
The company I work for supplies SIM-cards that can work with multiple providers, we can supply you with SIM-cards with a different provider on each SIM-card.
We use these SIM-cards for SpeedFusion bonding all the time, mainly in the broadcasting and rivercruise industries.

If you’re interested in learning more, you can contact me on [email protected].

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