Comment by doublec | Hacker News Reader

Comment by doublec | Hacker News Reader

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I haven't found Freenet latency to be bad for most keys these days. For example, I mirror my blog in Freenet and it's on the order of seconds rather than minutes. Even an image gallery I tried has reasonable response. Uploading data on the other hand is very slow.

Here's my blog key if you want to try:

    USK@1ORdIvjL2H1bZblJcP8hu2LjjKtVB-rVzp8mLty~5N4,8hL85otZBbq0geDsSKkBK4sKESL2SrNVecFZz9NxGVQ,AQACAAE/bluishcoder/3/

And the image gallery:

    USK@2LK9z-pdZ9kWQfw~GfF-CXKC7yWQxeKvNf9kAXOumU4,1eA8o~L~-mIo9Hk7ZK9B53UKY5Vuki6p4I4lqMQPxyw,AQACAAE/pitcairnisland/0/

I haven't looked at Freenet in years, but won't objects for keys that you've requested (/uploaded?) exist in your local cache (until they get pushed out by other traffic on the network)?

No, content you upload is not kept in your local cache at all. That would open you to the threat of being singled out as the uploader.

Instead your node is no more statistically likely to have any portion of the objects you've uploaded than any other objects throughout Freenet. When an upload is complete your node doesn't have a full copy, all the chunks are spread out amongst the nodes within a few hops of you instead.

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