https://github.com/booster-proj/booster
At my parent's home we have a slow Internet connection. I noticed that we also have four smartphones, all of them 4G enabled. This made me think about this configuration a bit. We have four fast network interfaces, all of them with a limited Internet usage per month, and a slow Internet connection.
Even if in need, we always use just one device at once, and usually it is the slowest one.
This is were booster comes into play. Its aim is to create a network of peer nodes, each of them with an active Internet connection, that balance the network usage between their interfaces.
Each booster-node is actually composed by a transparent forward proxy and a booster instance. Both parts will be described in detail later on, but, in summary, the former one is a SOCKS5 proxy that keeps track of the number of open channels of data that is proxing. When we want to enable booster on a device, we just have to make it exploit the booster-proxy when networking, and use the booster instance to connect nodes to it, and manage them. This way we can use our device as always, while transparently in the background booster will balance the network usage between each node, with all the consequences that come along with it.
My current configuration: I have a booster instance on my mac always running, using the advanced settings in the network section of system preferences, I set the proxy setting to use the SOCKS5 booster-proxy, so all my network traffic passes through it. I have another booster instance running on a Nexus 5X (thanks to termux), which is connected to my mac's (step described later). With just this simple steps, my network traffic is balanced between our slow home's Internet connection and the NEXUS 5X's 4G!
When I need a further boost, I even connect my brother's phone, my mum's, and the phone of whoever wants to boost me! 🎉
With a correctly configured Go installation,
get the repo with:
go get -u github.com/danielmorandini/booster/booster
build the executable:
cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/danielmorandini/booster
go build -o booster cmd/booster/main.go
With Makefile (thanks to Filippo's hellogopher),
clone the repo:
git clone https://github.com/danielmorandini/booster.git
test & build:
cd booster
make setup
make test
make
a bin folder will be produced inside the repo.
Add tap (has only to be done once):
brew tap danielmorandini/tap
Install booster:
brew install danielmorandini/tap/booster
For linux based users, snappy is provided:
snap install booster --beta
Pick your release!
Booster comes with a great CLI powered by cobra.
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