Transportable oneswarm instance

[arthurlutz]

It would be quite cool to be able to have a OneSwarm installed on a laptop that helps the transfer of currently transferring files.

The following use case :

• Friend A starts downloading from Friend B the Y file, it is pretty large and is taking forever
• Friend B has a desktop machine (where file Y is stored) and a laptop (both have oneswarm)
• Friend B plans to physically visit Friend A with his laptop (find a UI action for that)
• OneSwarm copies file Y from the desktop to the laptop over the LAN
• Friend B connects his laptop on Friend A's LAN
• The transfer speeds up and is over while Friend A and Friend B are having a beer

How this is technically possible I have no idea, but it would be really cool and useful.

Discussion on this feature can be seen here : http://forum.oneswarm.org/topic/1543

[CSEMike]

if A and B are friends and both are sharing Y, they will indeed exchange data over the LAN while A and B are enjoying the beer 8). I feel like I'm missing something here -- what's absent from the current release to enable this?

[arthurlutz]

right now to do this, Friend A has to tell Friend B that he wants file Y by some other means of communication, the Friend B has to manually download file Y to the laptop instance of oneswarm.

What's missing is either an action on the laptop onesarm like "get Friend A's downloads to speedup when visiting him/her" this finds out which files are being downloaded by Friend A, and downloads them. Finding a smart way of presenting this feature is tricky I admit. Superseed? or maybe a reference to SneakerNet : https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Sneakernet ... a "Tanenbaum" mode ?