What about freenet? They hold many of the same ideals about a 'free' (freedom) Internet, but have gone about it a somewhat different fashion from what you describe.
Your suggestion is somewhat intriguing though, and sounds (at least to me) like it has the potential to be a lot quicker than freenet's method of guarding anonymity (all my experiences with freenet are that it is quite slow to access due to what I understand is the way files are retrieved).
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Traffic that goes over Ca*Net3 = (surprise!) KaZaA
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I've been living on-campus at a canadian university for 2 years now and only recently discovered how amazing the research network is. (Our regular commercial line is really slow, slow enough to prompt the luckier, and geekyer, residents with TV to get cable internet in addition to the residence internet.)
If you check out the traffic graphs, you can see that well over half the traffic is kazaa. (click on application-bits)
Taxpayers' dollars hard at work indeed! The cool thing is that at most times these nodes aren't anywhere near their maximum data transfers at any time that I check them. That's probably just because nobody really knows about it and only use it if they happen to connect to someone else on the network and their university has the routing setup correctly... Also, not all the universities in Canada I've connected to make full use of the network, some limit bandwidth to their users even on this "free" (gov't subsidized) network. From what I hear though, the free part will soon change and the universities/gov't offices will have to pay for it in the upcoming years, but right now it's basically free bandwidth for those on the network.
Here at UOttawa we also have the same issue. I'm in a building that just got built last year, and they still put 10baseT switches in instead of 100baseT. Oh well, I guess I'll just have to live with 10mbit/sec...;)
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What about freenet? They hold many of the same ideals about a 'free' (freedom) Internet, but have gone about it a somewhat different fashion from what you describe.
Your suggestion is somewhat intriguing though, and sounds (at least to me) like it has the potential to be a lot quicker than freenet's method of guarding anonymity (all my experiences with freenet are that it is quite slow to access due to what I understand is the way files are retrieved).
Leela: Didn't you have ads in the twentieth century?
Fry: Well, sure, but not in our dreams. Only on TV and radio...and in magazines...and movies, and at ballgames, and on buses, and milk cartons, and T-shirts, and bananas, and written in the sky. But not in dreams, no sirree." -Fry
I've been living on-campus at a canadian university for 2 years now and only recently discovered how amazing the research network is. (Our regular commercial line is really slow, slow enough to prompt the luckier, and geekyer, residents with TV to get cable internet in addition to the residence internet.)
If you check out the traffic graphs, you can see that well over half the traffic is kazaa. (click on application-bits)
http://205.189.33.73/www/flowscan/nrc.html
Taxpayers' dollars hard at work indeed! The cool thing is that at most times these nodes aren't anywhere near their maximum data transfers at any time that I check them. That's probably just because nobody really knows about it and only use it if they happen to connect to someone else on the network and their university has the routing setup correctly... Also, not all the universities in Canada I've connected to make full use of the network, some limit bandwidth to their users even on this "free" (gov't subsidized) network. From what I hear though, the free part will soon change and the universities/gov't offices will have to pay for it in the upcoming years, but right now it's basically free bandwidth for those on the network.
Here at UOttawa we also have the same issue. I'm in a building that just got built last year, and they still put 10baseT switches in instead of 100baseT. Oh well, I guess I'll just have to live with 10mbit/sec... ;)
Heh, imagine if as a kid you weren't just building a race car or a fishing boat. Soon it'll be time for your 6 year-old to make his first WAN :)