I'm trying to setup media streaming over the internet using Plex. I assumed that my ADSL 2+ connection would be good enough for reasonable streaming to something like a phone / tablet while I'm out but really it is not, caps out at 1Mbps and of course if someone is using it at home it gets worse.
From what I can see there are no economical (ie dirt cheap) options to bump upload speeds up via the ADSL2+ plan, I'm limited by what my line to exchange can do.
But wondered whether I could set up a separate 4G dongle (I'm in a generally good mobile reception area) and hopefully filter the traffic so that all downloads come via the ADSL2+ connection and all uploads go via the ADSL2+ connection except uploads from the one stand alone PC that runs the Plex Server software (or alternatively excess uploads above the 1Mbps would be even better to minimise usage of the 4G connection and maximise the combined upload bandwidth).
Seem to get specials on pre-paid sim cards of 3-5Gb or so for $10 on a semi-regular basis which doesn't seem too expensive to me.
Hoping to get upload speeds of at least 3Mbps. Telstra 4G claims to do 1-10Mbps depending on location so hoping would get 5Mbps in my location which should be plenty.
Is this sort of thing possible / feasible? Or is multiple internet connection points and associated traffic filtering just too complicated. Is there a better way of achieving the end result without spending $00's a month?
Note already have Annex M enabled and it gained a little but nothing substantial.
Note2 yes NBN is coming sometime but looking for something that predates NBN if feasible.
The easiest way to do what you are describing is run the stream on a known port (say 1234) then have the LTE router forward incoming traffic to the server IP port 1234. All other traffic will go through the ADSL (use ADSL router as the default gateway). Splitting a single socket connection over two physically connections is… not advised.
Having said that I don't think this is a great solution. I would look at hosting the steaming on the interwebs directly rather than at home. If their aren't existing services that do what you want you can always rent a VM from amazon (or anywhere else) and have the stream magically appear from the cloud.