Wouldn't this tend to fragment the entire network though into clusters that 
were only interconnected with each other?

Greg


On Wednesday 28 May 2003 06:34 am, you wrote:
> > > I'd rather have a stable, fast connection around half the globe, I
> > > think, then a shaky, slow one to my neighbor. But maybe that's selfish
> > > of me.
> >
> > If one would propose to establish a proximity metric for choosing
> > ultrapeers, I would choose the ping latency as a metric, not the hops.
>
> Reducing the number of hops would reduce the processing load of network
> devices (think at LAN administrators) and maybe the average bandwidth
> consumption.
>
> I'm agree that the most efficient metric used to provide the best
> quality to the servant is the ping latency.
>
> I think those 2 points could benefit to the Gnutella network. The first
> point is good because user will have one more favor on choosing the
> Gnutella network if Gnutella agents save the networks. The second point
> is good for the global latency of a request. Indeed if each node choose
> the other nodes with a smaller latency, then the global latency could be
> improved.
>
>
> J�r�me
>
>
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