[MLB-WIRELESS] (Squid Proxy) Paths clearing for wireless networks

[Brett Murphy]

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> When a person inside the community network wants a page, they
> search each cache in turn (in random order?) 

squid caches have a neighbour function that automatically does this. Very cool stuff, allthough with lots of neighbours (vey likely in this case) the requests can become quite a large amount of traffic, see cache indexes.


until their request
> is found.  If the page they want is not already cached, they will
> eventually hit an 'enabled' cache and their request will be fetched
> from the Internet.
> 
> The net result of this scheme is that:
> 1) The community network has continuous Internet access (due to
> the random distribution of 'months end').
> 2) It is very rare for a person who pays for a cable connection goes over their
> download limit, due to the community network.
> 3) It has close to zero impact on the Internet usage of people
> who pay for cable connections.
> 
> If 'month's end' is the same for all users, the scheme could be modified
> to pick a random time, with some fixed data volume.  The chosen data
> volume should be small enough to not impact the cable users.
> 
> Getting really fancy, the data volumne or 'enable time' could be
> automatically adapted over time to fit usage patterns for that
> cable connection.
> 
> Regards
> John
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