[Pipet Users] Why Gnutella Can't Scale. No, Really.

[J.W. Bizzaro]

Jarl van Katwijk wrote:
> 
> ----
> And it should also be noted that only search query and response traffic
> was accounted for, omitting various other types of Gnutella traffic such
> as PING, PONG, and most importantly, the bandwidth costs incurred by
> actual file transfers. 2.4GBps is just search and response traffic, but
> what about the obnoxiously large amount of bandwidth necessary to
> transfer files between clients?
> ---

Yeah, some of the comments that I read on Slashdot indicated that searching is
a serious problem with all P2P networks.  I think that is what the article
addresses.

Aside from searching, my two points are valid.

Jeff
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