I'm a college student writing a column for the student newspaper about ways that the technically adept can contribute to free speech in China, and would like to reccomend Freenet. However, I know that our network administrators use commercial traffic shaping software to degrade or block most file-sharing services, and I was hoping someone could indicate how easily ISPs can detect Freenet traffic.
I've tested it briefly, and am able to get about 10kb/sec down (I simply downloaded two random music files), and probably higher up. But I don't know whether this is within the normal range, or whether Freenet traffic is being shaped and adding more users would be pointless (although I suspect the former). Does Freenet use fixed ports, and is there some kind of unencrypted connection protocol or something that could be sniffed for? Basically, I'm trying to determine whether this is something worth reccomending, or whether I should just suggest that people run Tor servers. Many, many thanks in advance, and keep up the great work. toptennut __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
