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dispatch-proxy

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Combine internet connections, increase your download speed

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### This project is archived and will not receive any further updates. A modern rewrite of this tool is available [here](https://github.com/alexkirsz/dispatch).

# dispatch-proxy

A SOCKS5/HTTP proxy that balances traffic between multiple internet connections.

_Works on Mac OS X, Windows and Linux._

**Detailed installation instructions:**

- Windows: [imgur album](http://imgur.com/a/0snis)
- Mac OS X: [imgur album](http://imgur.com/a/TSD5F)

## Installation

You'll need to have Node.JS >= 0.10.0 installed on your system.

```
$ npm install -g dispatch-proxy
```

To update:

```
$ npm update -g dispatch-proxy
```

## Rationale

You often find yourself with multiple unused internet connections, be it a 3G/4G mobile subscription or a free wifi hotspot, that your system won't let you use together with your main one.

For example, my residence provides me with a cabled and wireless internet access. Both are capped at 1,200kB/s download/upload speed, but they can simultaneously run at full speed. My mobile internet access also provides me with 400kB/s download/upload speed.

Combine all of these with `dispatch` and a threaded download manager and you get a 2,800kB/s download and upload speed limit, which is considerably better :)

## Use-cases

The possibilities are endless:

- combine as many Wi-Fi networks/Ethernet/3G/4G connections as you have access to in one big, load balanced connection,
- use it in conjunction with a threaded download manager, effectively combining multiple connections' speed in single file downloads,
- create two proxies, assign to each its own interface, and run two apps simultaneously that use a different interface (e.g. for balancing download/upload),
- create a hotspot proxy at home that connects through Ethernet and your 4G card for all your mobile devices,
- etc.

## Quick start

The module provides a simple command-line utility called `dispatch`.

```
$ dispatch start
```

Start a SOCKS proxy server on `localhost:1080`. Simply add this address as a SOCKS proxy in your system settings and your traffic will be automatically balanced between all available internet connections.

## Usage

```
$ dispatch -h

Usage: dispatch [options] [command]

Commands:

list                   list all available network interfaces
    start [options]        start a proxy server

Options:

-h, --help     output usage information
    -V, --version  output the version number
```

```
$ dispatch start -h

Usage: start [options] [addresses]

Options:

-h, --help output usage information
 -H, --host <h> which host to accept connections from (defaults to localhost)
 -p, --port which port to listen to for connections (defaults to 8080 for HTTP proxy, 1080 for SOCKS proxy)
 --http start an http proxy server
 --debug log debug info in the console
```

## Examples

```
$ dispatch start --http
```

Start an HTTP proxy server listening on `localhost:8080`, dispatching connections to every non-internal IPv4 local addresses.

```
$ dispatch start 10.0.0.0 10.0.0.1
```

Dispatch connections only to local addresses `10.0.0.0` and `10.0.0.1`.

```
$ dispatch start 10.0.0.0@7 10.0.0.1@3
```

Dispatch connections to `10.0.0.0` 7 times out of 10 and to '10.0.0.1' 3 times out of 10.

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