On Tuesday 10 June 2003 09:06 am, Toad wrote: > 56k modems do not contribute anything to the network, except perhaps > actual content. I don't want to make freenet particularly hostile to > transient nodes on 56k links, but it's not necessarily who we need to > optimize the network for.
OK, seriously why not optimize to work with 56k? GNUnet is able to do this and their architecture is remarkably similar. They just use a 1KB block size. Similarly the Alpine network is able to make excellent use of low bandwidth users by using very small messages to large number of hosts all over one UDP connection. It seems to me that routing could be improved if we used a smaller packet size, and ideally with a protocol (I know UDP is a lot of work...) But why not just have low bandwidth users files that aren't all that popular and not maintain as many connections. Their space could be put to good use and they could help in routing if we adopted my proposal for "Faster return paths." recently submitted to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is there any reason why this couldn't work, or is there something I'm missing? _______________________________________________ devl mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hawk.freenetproject.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
