Find Our Most Frequent Questions Below
How Does OodleNet share my Internet connection?
OodleNet does not directly share your Internet connection. Instead of sharing your Internet connection, with everyone, all the time OodleNet only shares your download and upload speed when someone else needs a file. For example; Normally, If you wanted to watch a video on YouTube. Your computer sends a request to the server to send that video back to your computer. You can only download that video as quick as your Internet connection allows.
But, if you are using OodleNet, your OodleNet device will ask the other nearby OodleNet devices to download some of the file using their Internet connection. All of the devices that your OodleNet device connects to, over LTE-Advanced, will discretely send the parts of the video they downloaded for you. This will greatly improve you Internet connection speeds.
Won't OodleNet just slow down my Internet speed?
No, One key factor to the way OodleNet operates is that the “owner” of a particular Internet connection always has priority use of their own bandwidth. So, If they are using their Internet connection to download an HDTV program, their OodleNet device will not participate in any other transfers until it is finished with its own download and has some available bandwidth to share.
Also, the true nature of Internet traffic is that it is "bursty" which means that it is not a solid stream of continual data. There are short periods of data blasted through the connection at high speeds, separated by long periods of no data at all. You may have a 10Mbps connection, but you simply do not have a continual 10Mbps of traffic. OodleNet takes advantage of bursty traffic patterns to utilize the communications channel more effectively by using the unused bandwidth of several Internet connections to send and receive data.
How compatible is OodleNet?OodleNet leverages existing standards in order to create blazingly fast Internet. PCs, Macs, iPhones, Android phones, iPads, Tablets, Smart TVs and all other existing smart devices all have the ability to connect to the internet using WiFi. Currently, OodleNet is compatible with any device that can access the internet over WiFi, no matter the Operating system or software. Windows, Android, iOS, Linux, Blackberry and Chrome are all compatible with OodleNet. You simply connect your OodleNet device to your existing wireless network. If there are other OodleNet devices in range of your device you can begin experiencing faster internet without paying extra every month.
Won't people abuse OodleNet technology by leeching or getting free Internet?
Not on our watch, OodleNet will be built with anti-leeching technology that will require OodleNet devices to be connected to the Internet. Sorry kids, no free rides yet. We are hopeful that in the near future OodleNet will be become adopted as a global standard built into all devices. This could bring about free Internet for everyone everywhere!
If my neighbor is using my bandwidth via Oodlenet will any illegal activity will be traced back to me?
Absolutely not, OodleNet does not directly share your Internet connection. Instead it simply shares the packets that make up the file that your neighbor is trying to download. OodleNet doesn't change the way packets get handled. All packets contain a destination. They have to know where they are going. That final destination is going to be your neighbor's IP address, not yours. Authorities would immediately trace any illegal activities to the source.