How about a P2P download manager ? A distributed download manager which download files in chunks on nodes in a corporate / college LAN where bandwidth is restricted on a per node basis ;)
On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 1:51 PM, आशीष शुक्ल Ashish Shukla <wahjava.ml@ gmail.com> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > ,--[ On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 07:54:46AM +0000, PJ wrote: > | Golly goshers! > | > | While building a bandwidth monitor for MTNL today I was thinking of a way > of > | (ab)using a peculiar MTNL quirk: viz: uploads are not capped on any of > their > | broadband plans. It's the quintessential Indian blood in me ... > | > | Now, a while ago during a post-presentation discussion at a Freedel/Freed > do > | I'd suggested a way around the broadcast limitation of an internet radio > | server (ie the maximum number of streaming listeners that it can cope > with) > | - the proposed solution was p2p broadcasting. I didn't know if it existed > | already, but the idea was that a p2p broadcasting network would work so > that > | the more popular a station is, the better the service will be. Anyway, I > | forgot about it for a while. > | > | Until today. Today I stumbled onto the peercast applicaton, > | (http://www.peercast.org/), which has been around for a while. Also does > | video. Neat. More at http://www.peercast.org/info.php > | > | It means that anyone can be an internet radio/tv station that can grow > | without worrying about bandwidth. I find that flabbergasting. > > Thanks for mentioning this. P2P rocks :) . I'll give it a try tonight :). > > - -- > Ashish Shukla आशीष शुक्ल > http://wahjava.wordpress.com/ > ·-- ·- ···· ·--- ·- ···- ·- ·--·-· --· -- ·- ·· ·-·· ·-·-·- -·-· --- -- > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFIJAmKHy+EEHYuXnQRAtJ+AKCDp6ujSP4Ys1WN8DpsZYast2NMrQCgjwn9 > jxbg88p+L3OhIjHUXHolDT4= > =3A3g > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] > http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd > Next Event: http://freed.in - February 22-24, 2008 > Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - February 22-24, 2008 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
