Slower Servers combine to make a fast server?

[Justin218]

Let's say we have 10 people with 1MB/s of upstream each. They all have the same file and there is an 11th man who wants it. Is it possible for the 10 servers to combine their upstream and send 1/10th of the file from each server to this 11th guy, theoretically letting him DL at 10MB/s. I know you can just break the file up with WinRAR or something like that, but is there anyway for it to be done automatically by software?

 

[blstriker]

Wow, interesting question. I'd be surprised if there were an affordable piece of software that could do this.

 

[crazydave]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't that what programs like Morpheus/Kazaa or eDonkey2000 let you do when you try to download a file that multiple people have??

 

[Justin218]

I have no idea, but morpheus downloads stuff slow enough to seem like it's not.

 

[GigaCluster]

That's exactly what FastTrack network (Morpheus/KaZaa) does: if it sees that multiple users have an identical file, it requests that each user sends a different PART of that file, therefore downloading different parts of it simultaneously.
I share many files on Morpheus, and I see that many times I'm asked to transfer only a fragment of a file. Only rarely do I get to upload the entire file.

I could be wrong, but I remember that FastTrack company licenses its network (or whatever it is considered) to companies for exactly this purpose... so that you could have kind of a trusted Morpheus environment within your corporation or network.