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Originally Posted by Zimmy
A P2P bandwidth sharing applcation will pretty much be a proxy. Proxies work like this, so would a p2p bw sharing app:
Request -> Proxy Host (p2p bw server) -> Requested Material
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The only way you'd gain speed is if the server generating the request had a bigger load than the proxy, but still then, going through 2 hoops instead of 1, can slow down bigger files.
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Except that, as DaWei pointed out, you can't actually "share [or serve] bandwidth" with a remote host. And the only way to gain speed would be to increase your bottleneck link speed (e.g. 56k) or to have the proxy compress the data. Oh, and how does a proxy count as p2p?