thrasherx

To networking GODs and GURUs,

Is it possible for a person to share his dsl bandwidth speed say from the U.S. to a remote location say from the Philippines? and Vice Versa? I was thinking of making something like a P2P bandwidth sharing app? But im not yet sure if it's possible i'm still studying networking as of the moment.

Thanks in advance Gods and Gurus!

MBirchmeier

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DaWei

Bandwidth is a function of the physical characteristics of the connection medium and of the devices forming the interconnections. A connection doesn't share its bandwidth; it posseses it. Users may devise ways to apportion what is there among themselves; they are powerless to transfer it to another connection by virtue of wishful thinking or smoke and mirrors.

Your friends are going to have to buy their own firehose or switch from a golfball to a marble.

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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

If the proxy was on a T3, and the server with the material being requested was on a T3, yet your friend in the phillipines was on 56k, it'd still work at 56k like this:

Requested Material --T3 Speeds--> Proxy --56k download (speed depending on load)--> User.

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.

Jimbo

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?

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