Re: [Help-gnunet] INDIRECTION_TABLE_SIZE and download speed

[Christian Grothoff]

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On Friday 06 September 2002 06:21 pm, Igor Wronsky wrote:
> Btw, making many demands at once might make the it more
> probably for them to disappear on the way. Besides, there's
> the economy issue... A too greedy node might not be the
> first to be served under load, and 0.4.6c might even consider
> some more of that load stuff than previous versions. ;)

I would add here that when you start the download, you're typically much more 
popular than when you finish it -- since downloading will decrease your 
popularity. And since the last blocks were the ones that were hard to get 
(and are thus also the most expensive ones), you end up in the unfortunate 
situation that you're (more likely to be) broke by the time you have to pay a 
lot (of course, you can be persistent and keep trying for a while and 
eventually find somebody who gives you the block for free, but this will take 
time).

Christian
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