Load Balancing Software

[vebatro]

I bought an iMac today and so far I'm loving it. On my Windows PC I have a bit of software called Connectify Dispatch which is basically some third party load balancing software.

Is there anything similar available for OS X? I've seen a workaround for using Dispatch on OS X but it involves a bit of extra hardware and a virtual machine, frankly I'd rather just use different software if it was available.

 

[dusk007]

How many gateways do you use?
Usually the OS will automatically direct to the fastest network service and I don't really know people that use more than one gateway (DSL modem, LTE modem, open wifi internet ...) at the same time.

 

[vebatro]

How many gateways do you use?
Usually the OS will automatically direct to the fastest network service and I don't really know people that use more than one gateway (DSL modem, LTE modem, open wifi internet ...) at the same time.

Thanks for the reply. I use two, one DSL and one LTE. I can get by with just my DSL, it was handy being able to split my connections because of the work I do but it's not the end of the world.

 

[dyn]

You mean network/internet connection loadbalancing which is usually done on a separate box that also doubles as router/firewall. PfSense is a piece of software which is able to do that but it will have to run in a vm or on dedicated hardware. This system uses software for the loadbalancing which is common UNIX/Linux software and probably also installable via MacPorts or you can compile it yourself. This requires quite some knowledge though. I have no idea if there is OS X software that does all this and is easy to use and I don't think you'll find it easily since it is usually part of the router/firewall.