[freenet-dev] High Speed Links

[Volodya]

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jarvil at gmail.com wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I proposed an advanced option on the peers (friends) page for high speed links.
> 
> In the present code, if you increase the outgoing bandwith the peers
> inevitably end up in backed off mode as the ones who cannot deal with
> the higher throughput backoff the incoming connection. I dont know the
> method used for Backed Off values but some basic math tells me that
> mode nodes can only receive 10K/s for each connection. Let me explain.
> 
> If you have one node on default setting of 15K/s outgoing bandwith and
> 60K/s incoming (4xoutgoing). If a user has 6 connections you have a
> max of 10K incoming for each connection. 10K/s is double the speed of
> a modem connection and hardly broadband speed.  IMHO This severely
> limits the speed of freenet.
> 
> What I would like to see is the ability to set individual bandwith on
> peers OR designate a peer as high speed which excludes it from the
> bandwith management on the normal peers. This would send a message to
> the other peer requesting a high speed link which would appear on
> their peer listing as request for high speed and the speed requested.
> If they agree then the link operates at the new speed sending data at
> the maximum speed specified until there is no more data to send.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Jarvil

This will also help those of us who are running more than one node and they are on the
same LAN.

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