* Ian Clarke <i...@locut.us> [2009-01-01 12:53:11]: > 2008/12/31 Matthew Toseland <t...@amphibian.dyndns.org>: > > #1: 41 votes : release the 20 nodes barrier > > > > "most of the users nowadays have a lot of upload-bandwith available. Myself > > has about 3Mbits upload, but the limit to connect to not more than 20 nodes > > results in about 50kb/s max. Please release the limit or use a dynamic > > system > > that offers more connections if the node has a high bandwith upload limit > > (scaling). Thx" > > > > I'm not sure what to do about this. The original rationale for the 20 peers > > limit was that we didn't want to disadvantage darknet nodes too much on a > > hybrid network, since they will not often have large numbers of peers. > > Combined with experience on 0.5 suggesting that more peers is not always > > better, a security concern over over-reliance on ubernodes, and the fact > > that > > we should eventually be able to improve bandwidth usage through better load > > management. However, there's a limit to what we are able to achieve through > > better load management, and it's a difficult problem. > > > > Thoughts? > > I'd say lets raise the threshold, perhaps to 40. The arguments > against it seem a bit handwavey to justify denying functionality that > our user's clearly want. Upload bandwidth is the life-blood of P2P > networks, we should use every scrap of it we can get. >
At the moment we don't use it, we *waste* it. What about improving the payload ratio first?
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