Spontaneous networks will speed net access

摘要

People using cellphone networks to connect laptop PCs and PDAs to the internet could vastly increase their access speeds if they are willing to share their connections with those of people nearby. That's the latest idea to emerge from Hewlett-Packard's research lab in Palo Alto, California, where software engineers say such "collaborative mobile networking" could allow groups of people to transform a sluggish link via the cellphone network into one capable of downloading large files in a flash.