> > Just imagine you have ten people in a conference talking with each other > > .... a peer would send ten streams to ten people, that's quite a waste > > of bandwidth IMO. > > True, but you don't *have* to do it this way. Perhaps some sort of > circular architecture -- put all the participants in a "ring" -- each > participant sends a message only to the next one on the ring which will > forward the message to the next and so on and so forth until the person > who sits before the one who sent the message gets it. > Anyway, P2P has lots of NAT-traveling problems.
Yep but there are ways around the NAT problem in the majority of cases as already shown, but I do like this circular p2p architecture idea for conferences, seems like quite a good solution if worked on to work out and solve any problems. Richard _______________________________________________ jdev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jdev
