Sign up with GoogleI've been pondering on an idea and would like to share it to see if it would be viable and if anyone would be interested.
I currently have ADSL and dread the 3GB cap, but there is NO MyWireless available in my area and I also would like to keep my ADSL for the low latency and high local speeds.
What I've thought of doing is to start something like a bandwidth sharing community where we would purchase a 512k MyWireless package and share it among four people, including the costs naturally. Every time there are four people interested in joining the community we would either increase the bandwidth by 512k or purchase another connection linking to the same box.
Couple of questions I have is what are the upstream and downstream speeds on MyWireless? and does the contract state anything about doing this kind of thing.
If outgoing capacity is limited ADSL could be used to share bandwidth to members and if we grow this far enough we could start using more reliable sources such as Diginet as a base. Not sure about this yet though as I would have to do some costing first.
The connection could be set up on a Linux machine with proper bandwidth sharing and security and a static IP could be requested from Sentech so that the other users on ADSL can connect to the machine for international traffic. Each user would then have access to the full 512k's worth of bandwidth or 128k minimum if all four users are downloading simultaneously.
This solves the problem users such as myself have who are not able to get MyWireless and eliminates the need for others with ADSL to cancel theirs, and in doing so sacrificing their investment and good ping ADSL provides.
I would be willing to provide the Linux box, management thereof and contractual agreements between members so that there are no problems where payment is concerned.
If this 10Gb total cap rumour is true this whole idea is obviously taboo.
Please let me know your comments and thoughts on this... I might have overlooked some aspects and possibilities.
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I currently have ADSL and dread the 3GB cap, but there is NO MyWireless available in my area and I also would like to keep my ADSL for the low latency and high local speeds.
What I've thought of doing is to start something like a bandwidth sharing community where we would purchase a 512k MyWireless package and share it among four people, including the costs naturally. Every time there are four people interested in joining the community we would either increase the bandwidth by 512k or purchase another connection linking to the same box.
Couple of questions I have is what are the upstream and downstream speeds on MyWireless? and does the contract state anything about doing this kind of thing.
If outgoing capacity is limited ADSL could be used to share bandwidth to members and if we grow this far enough we could start using more reliable sources such as Diginet as a base. Not sure about this yet though as I would have to do some costing first.
The connection could be set up on a Linux machine with proper bandwidth sharing and security and a static IP could be requested from Sentech so that the other users on ADSL can connect to the machine for international traffic. Each user would then have access to the full 512k's worth of bandwidth or 128k minimum if all four users are downloading simultaneously.
This solves the problem users such as myself have who are not able to get MyWireless and eliminates the need for others with ADSL to cancel theirs, and in doing so sacrificing their investment and good ping ADSL provides.
I would be willing to provide the Linux box, management thereof and contractual agreements between members so that there are no problems where payment is concerned.
If this 10Gb total cap rumour is true this whole idea is obviously taboo.
Please let me know your comments and thoughts on this... I might have overlooked some aspects and possibilities.
<font color="blue">TRUTH does <u>not</u> <i>lie</i> in <font color="green">opinions</font id="green"> and <font color="green">perception</font id="green">... but in that which <i>conforms</i> to <font color="red">fact</font id="red"> and <font color="red">reality</font id="red"></font id="blue">
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