[MLB-WIRELESS] bandwidth sharing application

[Joshua D. Studd]

LongHAUL,
not related to wireless, but I would absolutely love a copy
of this program, it is exactly what I have been looking for!
Keep up posted on it's success =)

Josh Studd


----- Original Message -----
From: "LongHAUL" <mhall at moonbus.net>
To: <melbwireless at melbwireless.dyndns.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2002 2:03 AM
Subject: [MLB-WIRELESS] bandwidth sharing application


> I have been poking around writing a bandwidth sharing app for a while now.
I
> am going to run it by you guys - tell me if you think this is going to be
> legal to use with melbwireless - with carrrier restrictions etc.
>
> I have been working on the idea ever since bigpond capped us at 3 gig - I
> wanted a way eat some of my friends 'unlimited' bandwidth. The app is
> basically a distributed gozilla/getright kinda program. I drag a link onto
> the client software on my machine, it sends the link url to the guy with
the
> phat net connection and downloads to his computer - he then burns my stuff
> onto cds and I wander over and pick it up. It is not really providing
> internet access - just a way to download particular files.
>
> This would also work very well with melbwiress with a few modifications:
>
> Scenario:
>
> Node A:
>     melbwireless node + no internet access
> Node B:
>     melbwireless node + cable internet
> Node C:
>     melbwireless node + dialup
>
> Scenario 1:
> -Node C wants to download the latest directx - he goes to microsoft.com,
> finds thats its 24meg, so drags the link onto the bandwidth sharing
client.
> -directx13.exe appears on the download client on Node B.
> -Node B clicks OK to download.
> -The client on Node B downloads the file in no time, and then sends it to
> Node C via melbwireless.
> -Node A peeks at his bandwidth sharing client and feels left out so he
also
> sucks down the file through melbwireless, from B or C.
>
> Is this breaking any carrier restrictions?
> Is this any different to Node B burning a cd with the file and walking it
> over the Node C?
> Could Node B charge Node C for this service?
>
> There are lots of different ways this could work if we can do it - voting
> for files, checking local file caches yadda yadda yadda....
>
> Any comments?
>
>
> Micheal Hall
> ebase3 Interactive
> www.ebase3.com.au
>
>
>
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