Bob, seems to me you are missing the point of network load balancing. Someone with 10 modem lines should have their ISP performing load balancing and redundancy at a IP level, not by manual load balancing.
This form of 'acceleration' dramatically increases the overhead for web servers - i.e. checking databases, logging requests, checking access control lists. The act of transmission is only one part of the load involved in handling a request, and these 'accelerators' -only- share that part of the load, everything else is duplicated and wasted. There is a place for swarming - but not in the client-server model of HTTP. Things like gnutella, where swarming is a part of the protocol, are an appropriate place.... and if someone with 10 modem lines wants to use application level load balancing for static file downloads, gnutella is probably an ideal tool - for them. Rob -- GPG key available at: <http://members.aardvark.net.au/lifeless/keys.txt>.
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