400 connections? I hardly ever saw more than 100. On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 09:09:59AM -0400, urza9814 at gmail.com wrote: > With 0.5's opennet you don't have to exchange node references. At all. > Your node does it for you. And you'll usually have around 400 > connections with the default settings. And 0.5 has more content and > probably more users, though I'm not sure on that one. > > > On 8/23/06, diddler4u at hotmail.com <diddler4u at hotmail.com> wrote: > >I'm new to Freenet and have been watching the discussion about version 0.5 > >vs 0.7. I'm not sure what is meant when the 0.5 advocates talk about > >OpenNet, so could someone enlighten me? I went to the Freenet site hoping > >to > >find information related to 0.5, even in the WIKI, but it now only contains > >information about 0.7. > > > >I have dedicate an unmonitored Windows XP Pro machine and 1/3 of my > >bandwidth to Freenet. I downloaded and installed 0.7, a no brainer, and got > >it running, but had no nodes to connect to. I had to know another Freenet > >user, preferably someone I knew and trusted, and manually establish a > >connection to them, and they in turn had to have established a connection > >to > >someone else. Since I know absolutely no other person who is running > >Freenet > >I had to learn how to use IRC Chat so I could ask someone if I could > >connect > >to them. These connections are my sole points of contact to Freenet. I have > >no idea how 0.5 handles finding nodes. I don't know who these people are. > >For all I know they could be individuals living on the other side of town, > >the country, or the world and they could just as easily be members of MI5, > >FBI, CIA, or any number of other organizations who monitor and track > >messages on the internet. I do know their IP address, and they know mine. I > >tried to find some people who run 24/7 since having a PC dedicated to > >Freent > >fulltime, without having someone who is also on 24/7 is not worth much. > > > >I have 7 people who have exchanged node information with me. Of the 7 > >nodes, > >none are currently connected to me, and if I understand the information, > >the > >last to go offline did so more than 14 hours ago. I can wait to see if they > >come back online, or I can go back into the IRC chat and try to find new > >nodes. I absolutely hate having to spend time in IRC chat trying to get > >people to exchange connection information with me. I have better things to > >spend my time on, and if Freenet wants my machine and bandwidth it's going > >to have to make sure it stays connected. > > > >Freenet should have me put in a single node, any node, even one found on > >IRC > >chat, and spider the rest of Freenet establishing and making new connection > >to ensure it stays connected, or it should do something else to > >automatically establish connections. At any rate, once that connection is > >made, Freenet should randomly move my connections throughout the Freenet. I > >should never have hard and firm connections. By 'floating' my connections > >throughout Freenet it can honestly be said I don't know who I'm connected > >to > >and am simply a node in a collective whole. > > > >I'm going to continue to watch the forum and see how things progress. I'll > >leave my current 0.7 Freenet installed and over the coming weeks decide > >whether to continue, remove and install 0.5, or just shut down completely. > > > >_________________________________________________________________ > >FREE pop-up blocking with the new MSN Toolbar - get it now! > >http://toolbar.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200415ave/direct/01/ > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Support mailing list > >Support at freenetproject.org > >http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.freenet.support > >Unsubscribe at > >http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support > >Or mailto:support-request at freenetproject.org?subject=unsubscribe > > > > > -- > <HTML> > <a href="http://www.spreadfirefox.com/?q=affiliates&id=0&t=57";><img > border="0" alt="Get Firefox!" title="Get Firefox!" > src="http://sfx-images.mozilla.org/affiliates/Buttons/180x60/blank.gif"/></a> > _______________________________________________ > Support mailing list > Support at freenetproject.org > http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.freenet.support > Unsubscribe at > http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support > Or mailto:support-request at freenetproject.org?subject=unsubscribe >
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