On 3/1/15 7:24 AM, Miles Fidelman wrote:
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?
The most densly connected relays by definition have more outgoing than incoming given the nature of a protocol where messages are flooded by senders. this is widely reflected in freenix 1000 rankings. http://top1000.anthologeek.net/ likewise if you are and edge you will undoubtedly receive more than you originate.
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" <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net <mailto:mfidelman@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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