[MLB-WIRELESS] bandwidth sharing application

Barry Park bpark at theage.fairfax.com.au
Thu Jan 10 16:14:43 EST 2002


Umm, wouldn't this be resolved by using samba file shares and proxy servers?
The data's on your dside of the Internet connection, so I'm assuming that
once the data is sititng on your machine it's yours to do what you like?
- Barry

-----Original Message-----
From: LongHAUL <mhall at moonbus.net>
To: melbwireless at melbwireless.dyndns.org
<melbwireless at melbwireless.dyndns.org>
Date: Thursday, January 10, 2002 2:45 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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