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" <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 >> >> >> >> -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. >> In practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra >> > >
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