By Desire Athow
Fixed broadband – hey, who can live without it? Sure, landlines are dying but to get the best possible internet connectivity, you still need a cable (and a good router). But then, from time to time, a slew of incidents can cut short that seamless experience: road-works, utilities up digging the road, cheeky monkeys messing with the connection box or more prosaically, your broadband being absurdly slow because you live far from the cabinet.
A new service called Boosty promises to transparently improve your slow or unreliable home broadband by using your 3G or 4G smartphone for that. Great for home workers who require stable connectivity for VoIP calls or for file transfers for example.
The ideal case scenario involves ADSL broadband lines up to 4Mbps which Boosty can triple to up to 12Mbps. Should you use Boosty on lines faster than 4Mbps, the service will not boost the speed but will focus on resiliency (i.e. make sure that your line is stable). Your overall broadband speed will be capped to 40Mbps.
Boosty, the service, is made up of a router (a modified TP-Link model that remains the property of Boosty) and a 12-month subscription, all of which you get for …read more
Source:: techradar.com – PC and Mac
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