Re: multiple providers

Damion de Soto
Mon, 25 Aug 2003 00:05:55 -0000

kmon fox wrote:
> Hello, I just stumbled across LARTC and am really excited beacuse i
> think this is exactly what I needed. Several friends of mine are within
> wlan range of each other and we all have our own cable modem connections.
> We wanted to ''bind'' our connections together so that if
one user wasnt
> using his connection his bandwidth would be split between the remaining
> users. How would i go about doing this? At this time their are 5-7 people
> wanting to be a part of this, but 30-50 people will want to join in once
> we get things working. Any ideas will be greatly appreciated. Thanks in
advance.

Unfortunately, I don''t think it would really be worth the effort.
You could setup some routing and QoS on everyone''s gateways to allow
for a type of fail-over situtation, where if your connection was down
you could use other peoples'' bandwidth.
I can''t think of any way for your gateway to know when its bandwidth
was all used up, and start trying WLAN routes - maybe someone else does though.

And trying to set it up with 5-7 (30-50) peoples routes would be a nightmare to
try
and track who was utilising all their bandwidth and who wasn''t.
You''d need some kind of dynamic routing protocol that knew about QoS.

that''s my 2c worth.


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