Hi Lance, am 15.02.2005 16:47 -0600 schrieb Lance Simmons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Has the usability of gnunent improved recently? Are there still a lot > of defunct keys floating around? Are there people currently using > gnunet to distribute files? How many? I had a gnunet node till about 2 years ago, when my hardware broke down :-) and I didn't get a new computer at home until now (I don't have net at home yet, but I hope it will work within the next two weeks). At work I had win2k only, so it was impossible to use gnunet until now, when the w32 version came out. I must say that I am impressed by the improvements compared to what I was used to two years ago. And there seem to be far more participants than at that time, too. I didn't download too many files yet, but 80 or 90 percent of those I tried were actually available, which is _by far_ more than what I got then. The speed has increased dramatically, too. It was always below 1K/s at that time, now I get around 5K/s. This might - beside code improvements - be a consequence of the fact that there are more nodes on the net. I first tried gnunet shortly after it was mentioned in the well-known German computer magazine c't - there were 10-15 nodes connected at that time. But that slowly decreased until 2-5 connected nodes were normal. Now I find that there are, depending on what time it is, always at least five connected nodes, often more than 10 and sometimes over 20. So it's probably a good idea to stay online and keep trying to get a file for some days - the provider of the file might be one of those not staying online all the time. Regarding content - there seems to be not as much stuff listed as it was in earlier times, but at least as it looks like yet, you can actually _get_ what you find. :-) And the content will, of course, only grow if there are people who provide it. I guess that this will increase, now that gnunet is available for w32 and Mac OS X. To me, gnunet is the best of concepts for anonymous filesharing networks I know, so I will support it by joining it. :-) Regards, Christian
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