On Wednesday 30 April 2008 16:39, Ermanno Baschiera wrote: > Hi, > In my opinion a good bandwidth control system should be necessary. I > read that at the moment it's not very accurate.
It isn't. It's improved somewhat in 1143/1144, but we have no control at all on resent packets, and they are inevitable if you connect to a peer with MTU problems. > I think that all > people with low bandwidth can benefit from an accurate bandwidth > control. I mean... think about new comers who want to give a try > running Freenet... They keep the node up for some days... their MSN > starts to disconnect every 5 minutes, surfing becomes slow and they > often have to reload pages... even if they set their node's output > bandwidth to a resonable value. I'm afraid they at last could give up > and unistall freenet. > I had those problems, but with the last 3-4 builds, it happens much > less often, and I can't exclude that it could be my isp's fault (maybe > throttling?) or something else, not Freenet. Anyway, an accurate > bandwidth control cannot hurt. I'm surprised that it would impact MSN messenger... What's your bandwidth limit? What is your node's output limit set to? A *really* accurate bandwidth limit will not be implemented until after 0.7.0. But you have a point, we need one. > > -Ermanno Baschiera
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