On Monday 21 May 2007 20:45, Matthew Toseland wrote:
> What you propose is a workaround for the fact that the current load
> balancing sucks, which would only be of value to nodes which have
> exceptionally fast internet connections. It is therefore not of any
> importance IMHO.

Obviously the real solution is to fix load balancing/limiting. I'm not sure 
that will happen before 0.7.0 though, the current load code seems to more or 
less work.
>
> On Sunday 20 May 2007 13:19, 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
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