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It probably doesn't. It can still take advantage of the pooling by, for example, routing your Skype call through your neighbor's connection because yours is alr
by dangrossman 13y ago
It probably doesn't. It can still take advantage of the pooling by, for example, routing your Skype call through your neighbor's connection because yours is already busy streaming Netflix in another room.
My concern would be my neighbor downloading movie torrents on my connection while I'm asleep. We'd need a really strong legal precedent that the person paying for the connection isn't responsible for what others do on it before this kind of thing could catch on in most countries.
- mbreese 13y agoIf it's done by routing, then potentially, the final IP address would still be that of your torrent downloading neighbor. But, the devil's in the details.
- andreasvc 13y agoNo, you typically get one publicly routed IP address from your ISP. The local IP address that initiated the connection is not visible to the internet from behind NAT.
- mbreese 13y agoBut it could be conceivable that your public IP is being routed through some one else's public IP/mesh router. I'm not sure how the actual packet flow in this case works, and with a mesh it's unclear how the packets get back to the original router. Everyone can't just be connection g to the same wireless ssid or you wouldn't be able to avoid local faults. So, the mesh would likely be able to distinguish which packets came from which subscriber. Again though, without knowing more about the protocol/mesh they are using, it would be impossible to know.
- andreasvc 13y agoNot really. Consumer ISPs hand out specific IPs to their clients and will only route traffic for those clients. If they'd start accepting arbitrary internet traffic from you you could simply start your own ISP ... So the mesh stuff has to happen behind NAT, on local IPs.
- mbreese 13y agoThis isn't your typical consumer ISP. Since they control the hardware, they could setup the mesh in some interesting ways. I'm not suggesting that they would accept arbitrary internet traffic, but you could see the routers accepting traffic from other peers in the mesh.
- gingerlime 13y agoShouldn't this (in a better world), be the opposite however? We'd need a really strong legal precedent that the person paying for the connection IS responsible for what others do on it
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- dangrossman 13y agoShould cafes be bankrupted because a customer downloaded some music on the store's wifi hotspot? If you lend someone a hammer and they use it to smash someone else's window, you're not liable for that so long as you didn't know that's what they were borrowing the hammer to do. I think, generally, you should never be in a situation where you're liable for crimes someone else committed without your knowledge and assistance.
- kaoD 13y agoP2P is not illegal in Spain, so feel free to download torrents in their spare bandwidth ;)