Scott,
Asymmetric measured where? Between client and server or between
servers? I'm thinking the case where we each have a server running
locally - how do you get a high level of asymmetry in a P2P environment?
Miles Fidelman
Scott Helms wrote:
Anything based on NNTP would be extremely asymmetric without
significant changes to the protocol or human behavior.
We ran significant Usenet servers with binaries for nearly 20 years
and without for another 5 and the servers' traffic was heavily asymmetric.
On Mar 1, 2015 9:11 AM, "Miles Fidelman" <mfidel...@meetinghouse.net
<mailto:mfidel...@meetinghouse.net>> wrote:
Aled Morris wrote:
Sadly we don't have many "killer applications" for symmetric
residential
bandwidth, but that's likely because we don't have the
infrastructure to
incubate these applications.
Come to think of it, if USENET software wasn't so cumbersome, I
kind of wonder if today's "social network" would consist of home
servers running NNTP - and I expect the traffic would be very
symmetric. (For that matter, with a few tweaks, the USENET model
would be great for "groupware" - anybody remember the Netscape
communications server that added private newsgroups and
authentication to the mix?)
Miles Fidelman
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