uh oh. Gnutella will not scale anywhere near the desired number of users.
On a slow day, a GnutellaNet would have to move 2.4 GB per second in order to support numbers of users comparable to Napster. On a heavy day, 8 GB per second.
but there’s more. apparently Gnutella is insecure as well. and they continue to tell us how hot P2P is going to be. my ass.
Gregor J. Rothfuss 