Re: [Furthur] Unstable Connectivity w/ 1.56?

[Chris Bick]

The instability you are experiences are because of a few reasons.  1) The number of people that don't leave furthur up for a long period of time. 2) Network latency.  If Furthur detects that a host is not responding in a reasonable amount of time it will disconnect that host. 3)  Slow hosts.  If Furthur detects that your connection is a lot faster that the hosts connected to you it will disconnect those hosts.   What all this does is connect the nodes with the same speed together.  This allows the network to scale a lot better.    Example.  Say I had a T3(one can only dream) that had 8 connections.  And 5 were modem connections.  That is not good use of the network and would cause some serious problems for the modem users because they cannot handle t3 speeds.  In this case furthur would disconnect those hosts and they would connect in the network where they are most useful.   So the longer you keep furthur running the more stable it should get. -cb ----- Original Message ----- From: Jim To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 16, 2002 10:45 AM Subject: [Furthur] Unstable Connectivity w/ 1.56? Is anyone else experiencing noticeably poorer stability in connectivity to the Furthur network when using 1.56?  With this version, I now experience more or less constant changes in connections to Furthur network hosts, versus a much more stable connectivity experience in 1.54.  (I connect to the Internet via a 1 MB wireless Ethernet connectionI am guessing that this is system issue, not a local issue, as it only appeared upon upgrade to 1.55/1.56.  Not knowing any of the architecture that determines how connectivity is actually created by Furthur, I  am also guessing that some of this instability arises by nature of the increased user base, which must be predominantly dialup.  Since dialup involves temporal versus permanent connections, unless there is some means to "steer/prioritize" the interconnection of broadband/permanent hosts (i.e. all, ISDN, cable modem, DSL, wireless Ethernet and/or LAN based users) to one another, the ove! rall network suffers from growing instability as the numbe r of users expands, which degrades its usefulness.  But that may not be the only variable at work, as I would think that even with a non-prioritized, random connectivity architecture, I would be seeing some persistent interconnection with other permanent hosts.  But that does not appear to be the case.  What are other broadband users experiencing? Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Sports - live college hoops coverage