The Wizard In Merkato, an automated series of inquiry screens that walks you through the process of creating and configuring a buyer agent. walks you through the steps to set up Merkato to obtain bandwidth The amount of data transmitted or received per unit of time. When we refer to acquiring or selling bandwidth, we mean the amount of information that can be sent over a connection at one time, at the allowed speed, without packet loss or excessive delay. Bandwidth is measured in bits-per-second.. The Wizard may be used alone (when launched from the original login screen) to alter settings to your agent The program that interacts with the rest of Merkato on behalf of buyers and sellers. Buyers can acquire bandwidth by configuring their agents to offer the price they are willing to pay for a range of available quantity, or use their agent to request a quote for a fixed-price bandwidth reservation. Sellers configure their agents with a quantity of bandwidth for sale and a minimum price they are willing to accept for that quantity. in the garage A server from which buyer and seller agents can bid when they are not actively bidding on a user's PC desktop. The garage is generally installed on the Merkato server, providing maximum performance and reliability.. It may also be used to alter settings in your agent on your PC (when launched from a pull-down menu-bar in the Desktop interface).
To access the Wizard, select Wizard from the User Interface menu.
When you first launch the Wizard, the following window appears:
The Wizard guides you, step-by-step, through the following configuration choices: