[MLB-WIRELESS] bandwidth sharing application

[ABBENHUYS, Ryan]

I reckon if people with cable access are downloading stuff they could dump
it onto an FTP server they are running so that it is available, maybe with a
simple file search facility so that if people are looking to download
something they can have a quick search of that.

I like the idea of a distributed proxy cache thingy.  My ISP, Alphalink
(stop sniggering at the back) is connected to something I believe is called
the Victorian Internet Exchange (VIX http://www.vix.asn.au), it is just
that, a distributed proxy cache thingy that a lot of the smaller Melbourne
based ISP's are connected to to save some money.
This is something that probably wouldn't be that effective for Melbwireless
for quite sometime, but it is definetly a future possibility.


-----Original Message-----
From: LongHAUL [mailto:mhall at moonbus.net]
Sent: Thursday, 10 January 2002 2:03

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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