Nope, sorry. Please play again. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_Currents
Tesla and Westinghouse patented all of the AC equipment. Edison wanted to sell his stuff. He even went as far as designing electric chairs with AC to prove it was "more deadly."
Internet2 doesn't require any crazy configs or anything to work. It's just an extra network connecting different universities. If I'm on a computer at Purdue for instance, and I access a computer at MIT (their webserver, a p2p client in one of their dorms, etc) it automatically gets routed on the private network. So any transfer on BitTorrent from an internet2 university to another internet2 university will use the faster network. i2hub was simply a modified DC++ client that connected to a host server that only let people within the proper IP blocks connect.
For example, there is a strong correlation between the IQ of somebody and the number of books they have on a bookshelf. I guess we'd all better go fill our shelves with books so our IQ's go up!
Except that the I2 isn't a seperate "world wide web" of information. It's simply a high-speed data link between universities. Any transmissions between two universities, including student data (emails, files, game packets) get transparently routed onto the faster network. That's why i2hub works. It doesn't have any special access to the internet2 network per se, it just doesn't let people log in unless they have the auto-routing "feature" turned on at their schools.
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Nope, sorry. Please play again. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_Currents Tesla and Westinghouse patented all of the AC equipment. Edison wanted to sell his stuff. He even went as far as designing electric chairs with AC to prove it was "more deadly."
Can you VPN into your campus? I live off campus and that's what I do here. Or used to do at least.
Internet2 doesn't require any crazy configs or anything to work. It's just an extra network connecting different universities. If I'm on a computer at Purdue for instance, and I access a computer at MIT (their webserver, a p2p client in one of their dorms, etc) it automatically gets routed on the private network. So any transfer on BitTorrent from an internet2 university to another internet2 university will use the faster network. i2hub was simply a modified DC++ client that connected to a host server that only let people within the proper IP blocks connect.
So most houses are illegal then you're saying, with their closets and bathrooms and basements (which don't need a window unless there's a bedroom)?
Repeat after me class:
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Correlation does not indicate causation
For example, there is a strong correlation between the IQ of somebody and the number of books they have on a bookshelf. I guess we'd all better go fill our shelves with books so our IQ's go up!
--James
Except that the I2 isn't a seperate "world wide web" of information. It's simply a high-speed data link between universities. Any transmissions between two universities, including student data (emails, files, game packets) get transparently routed onto the faster network. That's why i2hub works. It doesn't have any special access to the internet2 network per se, it just doesn't let people log in unless they have the auto-routing "feature" turned on at their schools.