Reply #5: You can't just aggregate bandwidth... [View All]

[Dem Agog]

It's a fine idea and might be doable one day, but not today...

We've all got our bandwidth on different circuits, via different providers. We can't just ask our Internet provider to take the chunk off the top that we don't use from their router and "magically" put it over on the DU router run somewhere else.

There are switches and routers and circuits and tunnels involved. FTP is on a totally different layer... Bandwidth is just what each pipe has. Think of it as a network of water pipes... Literally. I can't just say "Well I'm only drinking four cups of water from the pipe that I use, so here, divert that water over to that pipe over there that you (my provider) have no direct connection to..."

Just doesn't work that way.

One day, in say twenty years, the Internet might be based on protocols and hardware that are more reflective of a living organism and might allow that, but right now, not so much.

Good idea though. You're merely ahead of your time. :) Until then, feel free to pony up a few bucks to DU. That's where you can overcome the limitations of technology and contribute to bandwidth.