Ask HN: How and Where to Donate Bandwidth

2 points by BrandoElFollito 4y ago ↗ HN

I have a 1000/400 Mbps fibre connection at home that is and will not ever be loaded.

Is there a project I could donate it to? Some kind of shared-something where the missing medium would be bandwidth?

I already bittorent some Linux distros but the load is insignificant.

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mtmail 4y ago ↗

OpenStreetMap needs a lot of bandwidth and runs on donated hardware https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Servers/Tile_CDN

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Planet.osm#Planet.osm_mi... Not sure if their new torrent based approach is easier to add.

TOR network nodes (bridges?)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_community_network We have https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freifunk for example in Germany

Sell your bandwidth to crawlers https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29926063