On Fri, 2004-08-20 at 18:54, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Quoting Kevin Steen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> 
> > 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!
> 
> This isn't true.  For one thing, there've been people on this list who use
> dial-up, and claim that it works just fine.  

Thanks for trying to win back any modem users I may have scared away!
I'm happy to hear that freenet does work for modem users.

> Logically, re-learning is only necessary when the actual state of the network is
> different than the what's in the nodes routing table.  Most of the nodes that
> are going to be in a node's routing table are the ones that are useful.  The
> ones that are useful are the larger, more permanent nodes run by broadband
> users with some dedication to the project, yes?  Those nodes don't change that
> often.  My node runs pretty close to 24/7.

My node also runs 24/7, but as a result it is always overloaded and
doesn't accept new connections very often. Thus I conclude that any node
which disconnects is going to have a hard time reconnecting to the
network that it knew, and so it will need to re-learn.

-Kevin

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