https://bugs.freenetproject.org/view.php?id=2345
--- A typical domestic internet connection has at most 1Mbps uplink. In some megacities 100Mbps or even 1Gbps is available (symmetric), however it is unlikely that the bandwidth available in most homes will exceed a few megabits in the near future. We could implement darknet sneakernet connections by exchanging USB sticks. E.g. if you meet somebody every day (e.g. a coworker), you could exchange (cheap) 8G sticks, plug them in overnight, and then do the same again the next day. This would produce approx 100K/sec (1Mbps) each way for each person you did it with. The performance here imho isn't world-shattering, but nonetheless it's interesting. And it would build the darknet, some of it completely off-grid, work in many places where nothing else does safely, and get us some great headlines. --- IMHO this is something we should seriously consider, if not this year, then at least next year during the 0.8 cycle. The main technical prerequisite is token passing load management, unless we implement a completely different load management system for it. True passive requests would help in that they'd make publish/subscribe work much better on this. Even if it's not perfect, it'd be a very interesting way to get people in, and far from being a publicity stunt, it would be of immense long-term value. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20080508/d67284d9/attachment.pgp>
