Re: [Help-gnunet] INDIRECTION_TABLE_SIZE and download speed

[Christian Grothoff]

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On Friday 06 September 2002 01:57 pm, you wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 01:40:10PM -0500, Christian Grothoff spake thusly:
> > So probably the files were not available (or only fragments were, or they
> > were on a node that went offline (or on- and offline)), this is p2p, so
> > it's possible that the other side is not available. And since it's
> > anonymous p2p, you can't just "test" if the other side is available since
> > you're not supposed to be able to tell who it is.
>
> I see. They seem to take off fairly quickly at first and then really slow
> down and stop.

Well, you probably get what is available on the net and that may not be the 
entire file (or the other party goes offline).

> 1900544 of  6815347 (last: DF22BFDB897E671F917E51664E4A5AE1122F3A2C) at 785
> bps (average), 6260s to go
>
> And it's pretty much come to a halt. Is it unreasonable to try downloading
> an mp3 at this stage?

You can always try. For large files, it may always be that the file has not 
spread though the network and is only partially available. With only 5-20 
nodes, there is not too much replication possible...

> Would larger blocksize help? 1k seems kinda small
> anyhow.

See FAQ. 

Christian
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