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

Florent Daignière wrote:

> Using the median insteed of the mean solves that problem... Moreover
> really high ping times are not possible because there is a timeout.

It just doesn't seem to work like that in practice? The 0.7 node I have
is only doing a fraction of the work it used to in 0.5 measured by
transfer rates, cpu usage, disk usage - which also seems to reflect
directly to the speed of the network experienced by the user.

>> Because of this, there should at least be an option to disable the use
>> of maxpingtimes in the config for now and see if the network would
>> become faster.
>>
> 
> Again, it's not a problem unless most of your peers are missbehaving...
> And as you choose them it's up to you.

Well, call it misbehaving if you like, but the problem seems to be that
my peers have their ADSL lines congested and they have high ping times
because of that. But I don't see why this should limit my node -
especially because there are _some_ peers that are not heavily loaded,
which my node could be using for routing while other are overloaded.

I have tried with some success cutting of nodes with too high average
ping times - i.e. nodes for which their owner has set a too high bw
limit or which are too loaded. Unfortunately that doesn't work for
opennet - and it doesn't seem good for the routing purposes of darknet
either. My friends just don't understand about DSL line speeds etc.

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