Abstract: The invention allows for an Internet service provider to monitor its available bandwidth and offer users excess bandwidth at varying rates, hence filling the backbone when unused. The method is implemented by an apparatus who monitors traffic requests from the customer, and when recognizing a big data transfer will calculate the time needed to transfer the requested data, check if more bandwidth could be allocated, and offer a bandwidth increase for a predefined period of time in order to speed up this data transfer.

Abstract: This invention discloses a frequency hopping cellular LAN system including a LAN, a plurality of access points each operatively connected to the LAN, the plurality of access points including at least a first access point and a second access point, and a station which communicates with at least some of the plurality of access points using frequency hopping spread spectrum wireless communication, wherein the first access point and the second access point each communicate with the station using a first and second predetermined sequence of frequencies respectively, and wherein, during a neighbor beacon interval, the second access point communicates with the station using the first predetermined sequence of frequencies, and wherein the station chooses an access point with which to communicate based, at least in part, on a transmission received from the second access point during the neighbor beacon interval.