netfs-discussion — NetFS general discussion list

[Bill C. <bi...@vi...>]

Hi.

The initial NetFS protocol has been written, though it's still in a
state of flux.  Until there's working software, I don't expect a lot of
traffic here.

For now the plan is to take some time over the next few weeks and months
to write the initial NetFS application, and then to buy a terabyte or so
sized disk, put it in my cheap Dell server, and start hosting popular
legal files, like Ubuntu and Fedor ISOs, and maybe a mirror of
Gutenberg.org's e-books.  Then, if all goes well, we'll see how my
pathetic 40K bytes/second upload speed does to serve the cloud.

If all goes well, you can expect to get that full 350K bytes/second
download rate (or whatever your max download rate is) when downloading
large amounts of data.  No more waiting pathetically to receive your
first piece from a semi-hostile BitTorrent cloud that will only download
to you at your anemic upload bandwidth!  Yeah,well I'd rather dream big
than small :-)

Regards,
Bill