Re: Average ping time limit causing problems to transfer rates?

On Monday 20 August 2007 15:48, Malkus Lindroos wrote:
> Just realized a problem in using average ping times to rate limit nodes.
> If many of your peers have their connections heavily loaded on the
> average, this leads to limiting your node. At the same time some of you
> peers may not be heavily loaded, because their connections are not
> overloaded. This leads to slow transfer rates in all those nodes
> connected to few nodes with not enough bandwidth.
> 
> As a suggestion, I suggest using the minimum ping times from other nodes
> to evaluate the load on a given node. Trying effect of that now, though
> all nodes should do the same to see if it works.

What if they're on a LAN? On the same ISP?

I believe we use the median of the average pings of our peers.

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