On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 01:33:28AM +0000, Clueless wrote: > On Wed, 01 Dec 2004 23:37:52 +0100, Someone wrote: > > >Even on ADSL it isn't so slow. Shure it is much slower than browsing a > >normal Website. But this I do expect when the data has to pass through > >multiple nodes, with maybe even some ISDN or 56K users in the chain. > > I guess it depends on how long you had Freenet running, and how big the data > store is. On the first day, it was almost unusable for me.
That has generally been true of freenet in the past, unfortunately. We have made some progress, but nodes not working well for newbies is expected. > > Now it's better, although as I write this, all I get is "The network is busy, > please try again later" while trying to download FUQID, a program one seems to > absolutely need to download from Freenet... Heh. That's called an RNF. It stands for "Route Not Found". And no, you don't need FUQID to download files from freenet; with a well established node you can download a lot just by the web interface (set the retries to 50 on the splitfile download forms). RNFs seem to have been on the rise recently for some unclear reason, but there are less than there used to be.. normally you get RNFs because you don't have enough connections, or because your node is overloaded.. I know you have plenty of connections... > > The whole experience just isn't very newbie-friendly. A lot of people are > probably giving up after a few hours because they don't feel 'geeky' enough. Very probably. Anything that learns can't start up instantly. We've tried to improve it though, and maybe we can get a bit further with that. And of course, the overall network performance is a lot lower than it ought to be. > > For a start, I think it would be good to have a current version of the > important > programs on the http://www.freenetproject.org/index.php?page=download page. Possibly. But if we distributed Frost, for example, then we get a lot closer to "filesharing", which may have legal ramifications - especially with Frost's current initial boards selection! -- Matthew J Toseland - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so.
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