On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 05:08:42AM -0800, Joel M. Baldwin wrote:
> 
> As is true for all of us, I have limited bandwidth on my
> connection.  So I have:
> 
> bandwidthLimit=20480
That number is in bytes. How fast is your connection, exactly?
20kB/second is 160kbits/second. Oh, and you need separate upload and
download limits.
> 
> But this isn't enough.  I find that the biggest limitation
> on my DSL is the raw number of packets being transferred.
> Once a certain number of packets are being sent across the
> line no more bandwidth can be sent.  This frequently results
> in the DSL line being maxed out even though the actual
> bandwidth is no where near the max bytes per second.
> 
> My limit is # of packets, NOT NUMBER OF BYTES!
> 
> I've made the following changes in an attempt to have
> fewer connections, thus fewer packets.  freenet seems
> to be a VERY chatty protocol.
> 
> maximumThreads=30
> maxNodeConnections=15
> rtMaxNodes=20
> rtMaxRefs=20
> 
> This has helped some.  Is there a better way?
> My 'Local mean traffic' is down quite a bit as a
> result of the above changes.
> 
> 
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