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The students at the Lahore University of Management Sciences from Pakistan plan to try a new type of Internet connection that will avoid the Internet.



They have called it Poor Man’s Broadband, abbreviated PMB, and it consists of linking computers to each other directly for faster downloads, like in a P2P connection.



The condition is that minimum one computer on the network that has the special software installed to have the shared file downloaded from the Internet.
This is meant to replace the expensive broadband and the slow dial-up connections, and it will also reduce the risk of overloading the bandwidth supplied by its ISPs.



The system is a combination between the traditional P2P software and a form of dial-up, and its architecture offers a method for multiplexing the scarce and expensive international Internet bandwidth over higher bandwidth P2P dial-up connections within a developing country.
The technique mixes incentive-driven P2P data transfer with intelligent connection interleaving and content-prefetching.