IQNets - low b/w end user nodes - maximise 'user experience'

[Zenaan Harkness]

On Fri, Dec 13, 2019 at 12:55:13PM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
>   Node End-user Low Bandwidth => NELB

> So for a "compelling user experience", at least with NELBs, by
> default we ought limit both time duration T and bandwidth BW, for all
> link contracts handed out to incoming requests.
> 
> Low T means "problematic" (from end user experience point of view)
> link contracts will time out "relatively soon".
> 
> Low BW, as a percentage of total NELB BW, should minimize "obtrusive
> slowdowns due to the overlay net", again, from the end user
> perspective.

The limit case is an early 1990s modem link or slower, e.g. 14.4kbps
or less than 2KiB/s.

With a UDP packet between 0.5 and 1.5KiB, we might be talking about 1
packet per second.

The types of comms activity suitable for such a network are limited,
as some will recall - basic text based web pages, SMTP/POP, etc.

In this limit case, an overlay network as today's users would think
of that, is not practical (since neither is "normal Internet surfing
by today's standards"),

BUT, IQNets ought actually optimize such networks - with user (at the
UI/GUI) insight into the types of traffic he wants to xfer, and
design for certain high latency + low b/w text comms, an IQNet node
may be quite a bit more practically useful than a plain W98 TCP stack.

1.5KiB/s ~= 126MiB per day, or about 3.5GiB/month.

Could we implement a useful high latency, low b/w text messaging
overlay network in 3.5GiB/month?

Of course we could - which was likely the point of the early
cypherpunks email mixnet experiments etc.




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  This secret you hide, a hint may I glean?

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