Author: John Bäckstrand Date: To: tech Subject: Re: [Tech] Darknets have a need for peer preference.
> This could be drastically improved if I could set a preference on > peers which I wish to reserve capacity to keep my connections up
> with... such information would be kept private to me but it would
> enable my less connected friend nodes to stay strongly connected,
> while I'm able to have widespread connectivity which makes my node
> valuable to him.
Selective "Upload limiting" should work well if the new load-balancing
system (proposed on @freenet-dev, with queues and "tit-for-tat"), gets
implemented since this means that peers would also scale back to some
degree if you do. Also, it would hurt your performance if you limit too
much, which is a good incentive not to overdo it.
I also think its a good ida, btw. It is your bandwidth and peers, you
should be able to control it! The network and the other peers should be
able to handle any setting you can throw at it, basically. Any system
like this though, would need, imo, to let all unused bandwidth be used
by other peers if possible so that bandwidth isnt "wated" because your
friends arent online, or using their alloted quota.
