On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 11:16:41PM +0100, Gordan wrote: > On Friday 25 July 2003 19:28, Toad wrote: > > > > 3) Even if Freenet can deliver on this kind of bandwidth, it will create > > > huge amounts of totally unnecessary network traffic. I don't know about > > > your node, but mine has always eaten all bandwidth allocated to it very, > > > very quickly. > > > > No, it will REDUCE the network traffic - one large file instead of fifty > > small files. > > If I understand how this works at the moment, it will reduce the number of > requests, but not the volume of transfers. At least not signifficantly, > espcially on larger files.
Indeed. Requests are expensive; bytes transferred are cheap. > > Gordan -- Matthew J Toseland - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so.
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