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
> 
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