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Idea of shared/distributed backup leads me to vision of web browsers actively archiving and sharing public data. No more slashdot effects: more clients hits som
by myfonj 12y ago
Idea of shared/distributed backup leads me to vision of web browsers actively archiving and sharing public data. No more slashdot effects: more clients hits some public resource, more caches are filled and seeded in case of original resources downtime.
- IgorPartola 12y agoLatency will kill it. I don't foresee symmetric connections for residential networks any time soon, so when you hit up Wikipedia.org, you will be downloading it from your neighbor's 128 Kbps uplink. Discovering that this neighbor has a copy of the article you want is even more difficult. On top of that, what if you are signed into Wikipedia? Now you are sending your session ID to your neighbor? And what about HTTPS? Can your neighbor now send you resources as Wikipedia.com? The idea of doing HTTP over torrent comes up periodically and nobody has ye answers to these questions. Besides, online access is not the problem: there is plenty of bandwidth and CDN's already solve the data locality problem.
- walterbell 12y agoTWC cheapeast plan has 1 Mbps upload, the next tier is 5 Mbps upload, https://www.timewarnercable.com/en/plans-packages/internet/internet-service-plans.html https://www.timewarnercable.com/en/plans-packages/internet/i...
- IgorPartola 12y agoI think you are making my point. How does 1 Mbps or 5 Mbps compare to say, a 1 Gbps connection you can have with a server colocated or rented from a hosting company? Moreover, what's the benefit?
- walterbell 12y ago1Mbs is eight times faster than 128Kbps, your original characterization of residential uplink speed. Comparing 1Gbps and 1Mbps is more about bandwidth than latency, since the physical distance between server nodes will on average be larger than the physical distance between local neighbors. One benefit is ownership decentralization of the serving endpoint, which helps in some scenarios (more difficult to censor) and hurts in other scenarios (more difficult to sue).
- dragonwriter 12y ago> 1Mbs is eight times faster than 128Kbps Actually, 8 times as fast, or 7 times faster. Unless 128Kbps is 1 times faster than 128Kbps.
- walterbell 12y agoThanks :)
- IgorPartola 12y agoIn either case, would you consider hosting something like Wikipedia on a 1 Mbps connection? Besides, you will be sharing that connection with everything else your neighbor does: both CPU and link-wise. "Oops, Bob's getting on Skype again. Better go make some tea, while this page loads. Too bad the original server this came from has a 1 Gbps connection and crazy redundancy. I sure am happy I can get this page from Bob's 6 year old router running at 200 MHz." What problem is this solution supposed to solve? Bandwidth for the type of content you can actually mirror like this is my a problem and hasn't been for a decade.
- lucb1e 12y ago> I don't foresee symmetric connections for residential networks any time soon All FTTH customers in the Netherlands have this, and it's just a matter of time before everyone has FTTH. Then again, it's probably also a matter of time before abuse of symmetric connections becomes large enough that ISPs start disabling it. I see your point though, we're nowhere near there yet, especially on a global scale.
- nitrogen 12y agoA similar concept: content-centric networking.