<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 3/6/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Florent Daignière (NextGen$)</b> <<a href="mailto:nextgens@freenetproject.org">nextgens@freenetproject.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
* Matthew Toseland <<a href="mailto:toad@amphibian.dyndns.org">toad@amphibian.dyndns.org</a>> [2007-03-06 01:37:52]:<br><br>> Universal Plug and Play support<br>> ===============================<br>><br>> I suggest that we need UP&P support. The main caveats are that it is not
<br>> usable on an untrusted LAN, so we need to ask the user, and that we may<br>> not easily be able to distinguish between a local trusted LAN and an<br>> ISP's LAN. It is also reported that UP&P works only around 50% of the
<br>> time when it is detected.<br><br>Ok, let's feed the troll.<br><br>><br>> However:<br>> - It would significantly improve connection reliability. If for example<br>> all your peers are german and in germany all domestic IPs change every
<br>> 24 hours, if you are down for 24 hours you are lost for good.<br><br>Do we have any stats regarding how many of our users are double-natted?<br>I know that in france most people had DSL connectivity before the<br>
Wireless craze ; meaning that most users are likely to have two<br>different natting appliances (the routing modem and the wireless AP).<br><br><br>> - Right now good connectivity relies on getting a few geek nodes - nodes
<br>> that are directly connected or port forwarded. UP&P would increase the<br>> proportion of such nodes dramatically.<br><br>I am not sure it's an issue. I am idling on #freenet-refs on a regular<br>basis to see how the installer performs and to see where users get
<br>stuck : most of them don't have connectivity problems.<br><br></blockquote></div><br>That would be because if the user is tech savvy enough to get on IRC, they can forward a port at their router... DUH<br>I'm not saying people do or do not have connectivity problems, just that this is a really bad way to judge. ;-)
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