On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 3:00 AM, Ian Clarke <ian.clarke at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 12:07 PM, Volodya
> <Volodya at whengendarmesleeps.org> wrote:
>> I think that if people approach it as a P2P network then they will expect it 
>> to
>> take a couple of minutes. Last time i have used gnutella that's about how 
>> long
>> it takes to start the thing up there 2-5 minutes...
>
> Who uses gnutella these days?  The use-case for Freenet is very
> different.  Freenet may be a P2P network underneath, but it looks a
> lot like the world-wide-web to the end user, and that doesn't take any
> time to start up.  That is what people will compare us with, not
> Gnutella.

Freenet run as a service in windows and as a corn job on unix.
User should not _start_ freenet himself..

> More to the point, why *should* it take several minutes to get started?

Is it waiting for entropy or just trying to announce itself?
>
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