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

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