On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 12:17:52PM +0000, Robert Greenage wrote: > I did remove everything from the HDD. I used fdisk,wrote to > zero,reformatted the hd, reinstalled the OS and all the programs that had > been on there that I could salvage.Freenet was not one I could salvage.So > when I reinstalled it with ver. 9091 I would reseed . After I turned the > box off(no broadband) I lost all the node references that I had just > installed from the reseed. I had 117 or so node references at midnight and > in the am I had between 7 and 20. Since you state that my lack of broadband > is the problem I'll discontinue using freenet until such time as I do have > it. Thanks for the help.
Ah, I see. Okay, modem nodes will probably not work especially well. Whether they can ever work acceptably would be an interesting topic for research. > > > > [Original Message] > > From: Kevin Steen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: 8/20/04 5:16:10 PM > > Subject: Re: [freenet-support] reseed > > > > On Fri, 2004-08-20 at 08:13, Robert Greenage wrote: > > > Today was the first time I did not lose any node references. Lose may > > > be an incorrect term but if I cannot find something it is then lost. > > > Reseeding did not cause the loss. I had 117 at midnight , I had 10 or > > > so in the morning. My box was off overnight as I do not have a > > > broadband connection. .I did not/ do not wipe the RT.Also no ARK > > > sequence number has arrived. This was up around 117 when I had to > > > reformat. Also the logs look very strange. Any thoughts or should I > > > just shut up and accept that what I have been given? > > > > When you say you had to "reformat", I presume you mean you shutdown and > > switched off your computer? Reformatting means that you clear everything > > off the hard drive and have to re-install your operating system and all > > your programs. > > > > You have two problems that I can see: > > 1) If you are using a dial-up modem, you should have a smaller number > > for the outputBandwidthLimit parameter in your configuration file. The > > default of 12288 (bytes per second) is for broadband connections with an > > upload speed of 256kbits/sec. For a 56K modem connection, you should use > > a value of around 4000. > > 2) Whenever you startup a freenet node, it will take some time to learn > > the network again. For the first hour you will probably only be able to > > access very popular content. For this reason, Freenet isn't very useful > > to modem users at the moment, but the problems are being worked on! > > > > -Kevin > > > _______________________________________________ > Support mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.freenet.support > Unsubscribe at http://dodo.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support > Or mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Matthew J Toseland - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so.
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