As far as I know, that is the purpose of throttling the connection in Freenet. People should be able to run nodes without it suddenly sucking up the entire connection.
There is the other matter with cacheless tunneling, but I'm not putting that in this version anyways because of a lot of other issues with it. On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 06:07:46PM -0700, Jeffrey B. Siegal wrote: > lists wrote: > > As a practical example the windows download manager FileHound throttles > > downloads by just reading data slowly and this has never caused a problem > > with any site I have downloaded from. > > The purpose for this kind of throttling is different than Freenet's > purpose (as I see it). In this case, the purpose is to leave some > bandwidth on the user's modem available for other applications like web > surfing. However, the net effect at the TCP level is the same. Lots of > Windows download manager type applications do this and there are no > common problems with it of which I am aware. > _______________________________________________ > 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
