At 08:32 PM 10/24/02 -0700, Morlock Elloi wrote: >Napster clones, kazaa, gnutella et al. rely on end-users to upload stuff. These >end users simply have no bandwidth available for that. Cheapo DSL lines have >hundred or few hundreds of kbit/sec unguaranteed upload capacity. No one is >going to pay T1 to serve free stuff in breach of copyright laws.
What stops a P2P client from downloading blocks of a file from multiple users? Ie, "bandwidth aggregation" or "channel bonding"? The download from each is slow (due to b/w/ asymmetry) but you're downloading from lots of them. >While there always will be pathological cases that will spend tens of hours >online to get few mp3s for free (that is, until local telco decides that flat >rate is no more viable), for most napsters are unusable. You don't know Jack (Valenti). Usable serving costs >money, is stationary and therefore taxable. Until all 802.11bs automesh >networks get connected independently of "internet". 1. Battery life 2. It has a niche, but although more robust technically and socially, a mesh isn't as efficient for long haul stuff as a buried fiber. Although we welcome further analysis/bizplans.
