Thread: Here's a general idea of just how badly we're getting screwed
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2009-09-07 , 15:01
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Originally Posted by ioioio View Post
I would think roaming would be trivial. You would just connect to all the wifi points near you and send out the same information to all wifi points. The server would just drop all the redundant packets and send the response to all wifi points and the client would drop all the redundant packets. So in theory, you would pass from wifi point to wifi point seamlessly. Microsoft has been doing research into virtual wifi adapters, which would go a long way into wifi roaming.
still, this would mean that just about every server program out there would have to be updated to handle the concept that you can have multiple connections from different addresses, but one user, and that the request from one place should go to all on the list.

how would basic session management be handled?

it may work for static news pages or similar, but any kind of rich page like a forum or gmail could potentially break at any moment, or risk sending data to a address thats now held by a different user.
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