[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] KirkH420:
Hey Folks, I found this quite Interesting. Using USB Tether on my EVO in combination with Vuze Torrent Client, I am able to add 4g speed on top of my local WiFi connection. Rooted EVO users with USB Tether unlocked (or if you have a Tether plan on your account) can use load balancing to combine multiple internet connections. Even non rooted users can use the app PdaNet for Android for this. PdaNet is what I am using because it displays the amount of data which has passed through the phone's connection. This will make it easier to see how much your phone is adding to your torrent speeds. You can use different setups. For Example, if you have a cable connect in your house and possibly you can leech your neighbor's wifi and you have an EVO 4g, you should be able to load balance all three of them. :cool:

To do this, simply begin using Vuze because it has way more options that uTorrent. Sorry uTorrent fans but Vuze (aka azureus) Trumps uTorrent in functionality, it is just a fact. This cannot be done within uTorrent, don't bother trying. From within Vuze, go to Options and set Mode to Advanced. This enables Advanced User Preferences. Next, still within options, select Connection and then Advanced Network Settings. Here is where you will set your "Bind to Local IP" configuration. The goal here is to create a Virtual Network adapter so to speak. Choose an IP address for this Virtual Network adapter. I used the example IP address that you should see right there in Vuze's configuration pannel.

"Example: 192.168.1.5;eth0;eth1[2] will bind the specified IP, to all IPs of the 1st interface and the 3rd IP of the 2nd interface.

The 1st IP will be used for all services, all others are only used for load balancing."

So my Virtual IP address is 192.168.1.5 and what follows after the address are the locations of your physical network adapters. There is going to be a list directly under this example. You can read through this list and find out what adapters you have available.

eth4	(PdaNet Broadband Adapter)

eth4[0]	fe80:0:0:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx66%15

eth4[1]	192.168.9.2

net4	(Broadcom 4322AG 802.11a/b/g/draft-n Wi-Fi Adapter)

net4[0]	fe80:0:0:xxxxxxxxxxxxx:1935%12

net4[1]	192.168.2.102

The Above is the useful information that I was able to find within this list relating to my PC (these will be different on your PC of coarse). Now before somebody goes and comments "this doesn't work" please be advised that there were multiple listings for my network adapters. For example "broadcom" was listed more than once in this list and they relate to other functionality of the device. Be sure you find your physical Network Adapters and not something like the Following:

net8	(Broadcom 4322AG 802.11a/b/g/draft-n Wi-Fi Adapter-Virtual PC Network Filter Driver-0000) << this is an example of what not to choose.

Now lets Bind to Local IP:

- Find the textbox that says "Bind to Local IP or interface." Here you will enter your Virtual IP address followed by a simi-colon.

-Next enter the physical adapters that you intend to use for your Internet Connection also followed by a simi-colon.

Example: 192.168.1.5;net4;eth4 << this is how i set mine up using the data that i posted above.

You will notice that in Vuze's Example, that one of the physical adapters has [2] as part of the configuration. This is an option. Notice that my adapters only have [0] and [1] as options. In my current configuration I chose to use no options and everything is working for me. You may want to play with this and comment on this thread of any useful things you find with said options.

Being that I am a skeptic, I downloaded a free Bandwidth monitor that is capable of showing the network traffic for each of my Network Adapters. I'm able to unplug my phone and watch the speed of my torrents drop but not stop. Vise versa, I am able to disable my WiFi adapter and watch the speed of my torrents drop but not die. Ultimately I have seen peek speeds nearly double my original possible download speed by doing this. Currently I have no internet installed at my house because I just moved. I am leeching WiFi from my neighbor and it is only a 3.0Mb/s DSL connection. This is no good when you like to download movies. This also is going to allow you some extra bandwidth so that Internet browsing is quicker while downloading at high speeds. This is important when you're on 3.0DSL for sure!

Results are going to vary drastically due to several variables. Keep in mind that your max torrent speed is always going to depend on how many seeds you have for the file you are trying to download. Also, do you have a good phone signal? Please keep this in mind before you post something assanine about how "this doesn't work." It most certainly does work and you're only going to look like a jerk if you simply cant figure it out.

Before somebody points out that this is not necessarily only an EVO thing, yes this is very possible on other Phones I would imagine. However the EVO is what I'm using plus it has 4g which makes this more relevant to the Speed topic.

If you aren't going to reply with something useful which benefits this community, stop wasting space with bull**** comments!