[freenet-support] towards Freenet 0.7.0

[Evan Daniel]

On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 6:32 PM, Matthew Toseland
<toad at amphibian.dyndns.org> wrote:
> On Thursday 01 May 2008 16:20, sich wrote:
>  > Ermanno Baschiera a écrit :
>  > > Hi,
>  > > In my opinion a good bandwidth control system should be necessary. I
>  > > read that at the moment it's not very accurate. 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.
>  > >
>  > > -Ermanno Baschiera
>  > For me the problem is that Freenet don't use all the bandwitch
>  > avaible... I have very good bandwitch but Freenet is only using around
>  > 40ko/s...
>
>  Do you have 0% pInstantReject as well? If so, your node is accepting every
>  request sent to it, yet is still not using much bandwidth (compared to what
>  it could do). Which is what I find on my node when I run with a high bwlimit:
>  our neighbours simply don't send us enough requests to use up all the
>  bandwidth, even taking into account that their neighbours are probably
>  rejecting a lot of requests, so we probably get a lot of the rejected
>  requests due to not being backed off.
>
>  I don't know that there's much that can be done about this. Load limiting
>  adapts to the average network conditions, and we can't go too much beyond
>  that without breaking routing.

You could increase the number of peers, and thus get more traffic...

Evan Daniel