I don't agree. People on dilaup connections shouldn't run nodes other than with transient toggled - it will help neither them nor the network.
On Sat, 05 Aug 2000, Brandon wrote: > > So, is it ever worth running a node on a 56k or less dialup? I jump in > > sometimes for uploads and downloads and I always have myself set up as a > > "transient," but other than that, should I leave the node running or just > > log off ASAP? > > Yes! Everyone should run a node. More nodes means more data replication > and more cover traffic. In general, more is better. Of course as you > increase the number of slow nodes, you decrease the average speed of the > network. Which should just encourage people to form subnetworks with their > friends who also have high speed connections. If you have a high speed > connection and are getting slow downloads, it's probably because you're > talking to slow nodes (or one hop away is) because you got them from > inform.php. Well you should set up a subnetwork with your friends and that > will fix that. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Freenet-dev mailing list > Freenet-dev at lists.sourceforge.net > http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/freenet-dev -- \oskar _______________________________________________ Freenet-dev mailing list Freenet-dev at lists.sourceforge.net http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/freenet-dev
