[Freedombox-discuss] BitMessage

[Eugen Leitl]

On Mon, Apr 01, 2013 at 02:37:12PM +0100, Philip Hands wrote:

> > On another downside is that unthrottled it will tend to saturate
> > scarce upstream on your domestic broadband.
> 
> That thought seems to be based in part on the assumption that they've
> not thought about scalability.

No, that observation is empirical. I routinely see it maxing
out my upstream.
 
> Of course, one might need to make sure that one is in an appropriately
> low-bandwidth "stream" to suit one's available bandwidth.  On the other

Yes, I can throttle that via QoS in in the firewall. FBX users can't/won't/shan't.

> hand, it's beta software, and they seem to have left quite a few rough
> edges, so you might want to tell them about flaws you think you've

Yes, I already did that.

> found, so they have chance to address them before they become a real
> problem.