this is overly-simplistic and naive but how do you donate bandwidth? [View All]

[expatriot]

Is it fairly easy to do on a technical level? I am no IT guy but am familiar with the very basic concepts of ftp, bandwidth, etc. and you think that there be a way to form a bandwidth collective, almost like an insurance company or a bandwith bank that people could donate untapped bandwidth to.

What got me thinking is that there are probably a lot of DUers like me that start a website and never really get close to the traffic to make a dent in their available bandwith. If you got 100 people to donate an average of 25 GB of bandwidth a month to DU, I would that think that 2500 GB would be a fairly substantial "emergency blood supply" that DU could tap into in order to reduce the need for Level 1's.

What in particular is overly naive about this concept? Because I am afraid that IT people when reading this will just shake their head and think I am a 12 year old girl in Witchita, Kansas that just left AOL chat for the first time.