On Mon, 2003-01-27 at 18:52, Matthew Toseland wrote: > On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 06:50:44PM -0800, Ian Clarke wrote: > > > What QOS does the internet have in general? We need simply to have > > > enough local bandwidth, enough of a buffer, enough parallel requests and > > > enough redundancy. > > > > Assuming this isn't a rhetorical question - the only guarantee that the > > Internet makes at the IP layer is that your packet will probably reach > > its destination soon after you send it, and it probably won't be > > corrupted. > > > > > What exactly about it is unreasonable? Non-broadband nodes are generally > > > worthless. > > > > Well, many broadband connections can only upload at 20kbytes/sec, so for > > a 40kbyte/sec stream you need two of them, irrespective of how you are > > streaming. > 40kBYTE per second?! Um, even with a factor of two overhead, that's > enough for a video stream never mind an audio one. Besides my broadband > has 1024/256kbps for ~ $50/mo... 256 upload is not _that_ uncommon.
Here in the UK 256 is standard across all broadband packages. It is only the downstream speed that varies between packages. > > > > > NIO should help a lot [with load], and will be a primary focus of 0.5.2. > > > What ClientInfo patch? > > > > I was given the impression that NIO would be a massive undertaking. you > > don't think so? > We shall see. > > > > Ian. > > > > -- > > Ian Clarke ian@[freenetproject.org|locut.us|cematics.com] > > Latest Project http://locut.us/ > > Personal Homepage http://locut.us/ian/ > > -- Simon Porter <hailstormxp at fairadsl.co.uk> _______________________________________________ devl mailing list devl at freenetproject.org http://hawk.freenetproject.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
