2009/1/5 Matthew Toseland <toad at amphibian.dyndns.org>: > Opportunistic ad-hoc wireless isn't freenet, it's Haggle. It's very far from [snip]
Pshaw! Come now, think opennet. It could be done. Perhaps it would reduce some of the practical weaknesses of opennet? an adversary's ability to pick and choose peers is subject to geographic restrictions. (Is it worthwhile? I think so, but that is far less clear than the mere possibility) > However, ad-hoc networking with known friends, over some short-range > high-bandwidth low-power system, maybe UWB-based, is a good idea and > hopefully will happen one day, but it would need a huge amount of burst > bandwidth to get a reasonable overall transfer rate... exchanging USB keys > could get around 1Mbps per peer equivalent, assuming 8GB sticks swapped > daily. 802.11n, now widely shipping in laptops in 'draft' form, manages a couple hundred mbit/sec in-room. I suppose the bigger challenge would be getting the software and hard disk to keep up with the network. > Anyway, all this delay tolerant stuff relies on figuring out a way to do > delay-tolerant location swapping, which is far from trivial, and may not be > possible. Yes. Sorry for the noise.
