Australians bring token ring to Wi-Fi bandwidth throttling, quality of service: This interesting project allows standard Wi-Fi to be queue packets using client software. The token dramatically reduces collisions and other network throughput reducers. Of course, it means that everyone on the network needs to install special software, and they don't appear to have a method of not allowing people on who aren't using "frottle."
Read the Slashdot discussion, too. [via BoingBoing]
Thanks for the interest.
> and they don't appear to have a method
> of not allowing people on who aren't
> using "frottle."
Actually the frottle master maintains a file listing the IPs of connected clients. We have a script which uses that input to find MAC adresses and use them to firewall packets that don't have a frottle client as the next hop. As, in our case, all traffic is routed through the master (and is not bounced off the AP), this works.
-ChrisK (frottle developer)