[MLB-WIRELESS] bandwidth issues for the future/internet access

[Adrian Close]

On Thu, 25 Oct 2001, Victor Rajewski wrote:

> Just been thinking about the possibility of connecting the network to the
> internet (whether or not that is legally possible), and am wondering if in
> fact it is a good idea. Given the bandwidth of wavelan, it seems to me
> that as soon as a couple of hundred ppl are using it, it might slow down
> to a snails pace, depending on how many nodes one has to hop thru and how
> many connections to the outside world there are... if a substantial number
> of `leechers' get onto it then there may b problems.

Absolutely.  Actually, I think one of the reasons for building the network
is to work out how to solve these problems.  No-one has done this before
(at least not what I'm thinking of and that is a city-wide and
beyond, somewhat meshed and rather chaotic network) as far as I know.

The answers are almost certainly interestesting and besides, getting them
should be a whole lot of fun.  :)

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