Robert Krig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Mon, 27 Nov 2006 16:17:52 +0100:
> Even if you manage to re-route the traffic, wouldnt it be the same as if > you had two newsreaders running? > > You would have to make sure that you don't create more connections than is > allowed by your provider. No... Many providers cap the connections, both the number and the speed per connection, to well less (total) than the internet bandwidth they provide. Cox provides here, for instance, four connections of half a megabit per second each, thus totalling 2 megabit per second total news bandwidth (to their outsourced provider). Actually, due to issues it's often less than that but we'll say you get full speed for argument's sake. The internet pipe is (in Phoenix) 7 megabit down, half megabit up. Figuring downloading, therefore, and assuming one doesn't saturate their uplink, one could use the connections of two friends besides their own, to get 6 megabit download speed, and have the last megabit left over for other uses. Cox controls access by IP number, so as long as the connections appear to be coming from different IP addresses, it would work. For geeks that service the computers of friends, this might be a useful way to get better use of their pipes at no additional cost, in exchange for keeping up the antivirus and the like on their friends' computers. (I am assuming the friends know and agreed, of course, but for the ethically challenged, that wouldn't /have/ to be so...) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
