Ants 0.7.7 very stable

[tsafa1]

I have been testing release 0.7.7 for about 3 days now. I have run it as long as 30 hrs straight. Looks very good.

In 15 hrs 45 minutes I have had total download traffic of 524 mb. This is all proxy traffic. I did not download any files myself.

total upload traffic of 754 mb. 188 mb of this upload traffic is files that came out of my own share directory and transferedd to other users. The diffrence of 566 mb is proxy traffic i uploaded.

Interestingly, I have 42 mb more upload proxy traffic then download proxy traffic. This must represent situations where data was cut off ( due to a node leaving network) and was requested again. but not sure.

[nms04]

hm the only problem is that i was never able to complete a download, there r any files on the network 8om there r a few but not the files i search fore) ok i know it's a new network, but gwren should realy do something about the slow connections

[tsafa1]

If you do the math you will see that my total uploads work out to about 12 kb/s. That is my max upload capability. At the moment 25% seems to be ussed for content upload , 70 % of proxy traffic and 5% for traffic overhead. It seems too much is going to proxy traffic rather then content uploads. I think it may me a good idea for ants to be able to detect when uploads are in progress and give them priority. Most people do not have a lot of content anyway so the will do most of the traffic proxying.

i'm not sure if it would work, it may make things worse. But that is the reson for slow downloads. Only 25% of upload traffic is feeding those downloads. It may turnout to be necessary and simply the cost of anonymous p2p.

[Siskabush]

If you do the math you will see that my total uploads work out to about 12 kb/s. That is my max upload capability. At the moment 25% seems to be ussed for content upload , 70 % of proxy traffic and 5% for traffic overhead. It seems too much is going to proxy traffic rather then content uploads. I think it may me a good idea for ants to be able to detect when uploads are in progress and give them priority. Most people do not have a lot of content anyway so the will do most of the traffic proxying.

i'm not sure if it would work, it may make things worse. But that is the reson for slow downloads. Only 25% of upload traffic is feeding those downloads. It may turnout to be necessary and simply the cost of anonymous p2p.

Thats definitely not good for you guys. If the max upload/Download speed is a mere 12kbps, no one is going to want to use it, even if it is anonymous.

What i would suggest is a normal mode, and a "Stealth mode" (Anonymous), which you can switch to and fro. Kinda like jumping nodes in Kazaa. This way, if you leave your computer on overnight in stealth mode or are gone for long amounts of time, the RIAA couldnt see you and your downloads would progress. If you want the full speed, go to normal mode.

Good luck :)

[ABC_thellookoflove]

trusted peers should be able to download and upload either direct to each other ( otherwise they were not trusted) or maybe have only one hop!!!

it is liek safe sex, either you know your partner and TRUST him, then you can sleep without a condom or you do NOT TRUST her/him, then he /she is not a trusted peer !

So not meore than 1 hops between trusted peers.

A jeti should be able to broiwse the files of a trusted jeti inside ants !!!


this is meant and then each jeti as a trusted peer can see the files of the other jeti and dwonlaod them by direct connection !!!

[tsafa1]

Thats definitely not good for you guys. If the max upload/Download speed is a mere 12kbps, no one is going to want to use it, even if it is anonymous.

No you missunderstood me. 12 kb/s is my max upload speed for my internet conection. I have download max of 1.5 mb/s but download speed is irrelevant because how fast you can download on any network is determinded by how fast other people can upload to you. Even with swarming, you basicly can not take out more then is put in.

12 kb/s is a decent upload speed especialy when the program has swarming capabilities. The problem here is that only 25% of that is used to trsansfer my own files to other people. The balace is use for proxying other peoples files (to maitain anonymous network).

My idea is to have people who are not sharing too many files do most of the proxying so that the few people with a lot of files to share can feed the network.

[Hornet]

Ants 0.8.1 was just released.

The Changes are as follows (see below for explanation):

-Sliding window for HTTP request handling (HTTP Speedup)
-Debugged Random walk algorithm (inactive nodes disconnection)
-TTLess protocol (routing with unaged messages: no Time To Live involved)
-Queries by default (no more imprecise results)
-Queries over extended contents
-File Preview (this did not work for me, needs debugging)
-File Comments (Rehashing required!)
-GUI freaks (Downloads and Uploads labels) (this is comsmetic)

COMMENTS ABOUT IMPROVEMENTS

Sliding window for HTTP request handling
As well as file sharing ANts allows users to host web sites anonymously by running a web server like apache. To keep the web site anonymous the use also needs to have a fire wall blocking port 80 and 8080 access. This change speeds up the download of pages.

Debugged Random walk algorithm
ANts is a P2P2P application with files being transfer in hops between peers from source to destination. Obviously the fewer hops the faster the transfer and the lower the total bandwidth used. The random walk algorithm moves the start point of a transfer nearer to the source so fewer hops are used so files transfer faster and less bandwidth used.

TTLess protocol
The time to live (TTL) for queries has been removed. This means that ANts will search the entire network for files and will not stop after a certain number of hops. This combined with the use of distributed hash table (DHT) enables uses to locate any file on ANts wherever it is in the world (on 40 users anyway :) )

File Preview
Should now be able to preview files before a download has finished.

Hornet