[Bitcoin-development] have there been complains about network congestion? (router crashes, slow internet when running Bitcoin nodes)

2014-04-08 Thread Angel Leon
I was wondering if the level of traffic a Bitcoin node gets is or will be so high that you have heard/will hear complains like the following: 1. a home router that crashes or slows down when its NAT pin-hole table overflows, triggered by many TCP connections. 2. a home router that

Re: [Bitcoin-development] have there been complains about network congestion? (router crashes, slow internet when running Bitcoin nodes)

2014-04-08 Thread Matt Whitlock
On Tuesday, 8 April 2014, at 12:13 pm, Angel Leon wrote: I was wondering if we have or expect to have these issues in the future, perhaps uTP could help greatly the performance of the entire network at some point. Or people could simply learn to configure their routers correctly. The only

Re: [Bitcoin-development] have there been complains about network congestion? (router crashes, slow internet when running Bitcoin nodes)

2014-04-08 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 9:13 AM, Angel Leon gubat...@gmail.com wrote: a home router that crashes or slows down when its NAT pin-hole table overflows, triggered by many TCP connections. We don't form or need to form a great many connections. a home router that crashes or slows down by UDP

Re: [Bitcoin-development] have there been complains about network congestion? (router crashes, slow internet when running Bitcoin nodes)

2014-04-08 Thread Wladimir
On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 6:13 PM, Angel Leon gubat...@gmail.com wrote: I was wondering if the level of traffic a Bitcoin node gets is or will be so high that you have heard/will hear complains like the following: 1. a home router that crashes or slows down when its NAT pin-hole table

Re: [Bitcoin-development] have there been complains about network congestion? (router crashes, slow internet when running Bitcoin nodes)

2014-04-08 Thread Angel Leon
Those clarifications are what I needed to hear. For some reason I started thinking about this last night and wanted to bring it up just in case it would help, but def. not necessary. Will get back to more low hanging fruit in the UI/UX as I get to know the project more. Gregory: But there doesn't