On Wed, May 21, 2003 at 11:25:01AM -0700, Ian Clarke spake thusly: > > I have friends who are really into bittorrent. bittorrent does not have > > the problem of data falling out of the network so easily (ie. much more > > reliable) > > This simply isn't true - you can only get data in BitTorrent from people > who have specifically downloaded the thing you are looking for and who > leave their client running - Freenet spreads content beyond those that > are specifically downloading it meaning that data's longevity is likely > to be much better with Freenet.
I think it is true that it is more reliable and data doesn't fall out. And for the very reason you stated: You get the data from people who have downloaded the content. I am currently having MUCH more trouble retrieving things with freenet than with bittorrent. > No, but you do need to deal with Python, and I haven't heard too many > reports of trouble from people that can't get Java installed in a while > now. Python came pre-installed on my system and there are no python-vm quirks or incompatibilities that I am aware of. > I have yet to see clear evidence of this and my personal experience is > that the two are very similar in-terms of speed. I wish someone would > do a direct comparison. They used to be fairly close if you had the memory and cpu power to run a lot of download threads. Lately freenet has become a dog for splitfiles. 60 download threads to get 90k/s with freenet makes most other tasks on my dual 500Mhz PIII with 512M of RAM a bit difficult. Bittorrent can download at that speed using far less memory and cpu. I would do a direct comparison but an insert of a test file of any size would take forever. > That is strange, I have had no such problems. I think one issue is that > some download clients (such as Fuqid) default to a 5% heal percentage, I > believe this should be 100% by default. I have tried to get files varying from 30M to a couple hundred meg lately with little luck. I did have success on one of three such files last night. -- Tracy Reed http://ultraviolet.org -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 240 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20030522/1da70b0f/attachment.pgp>
