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IPFS is especially heavy on bandwith if you plan to host IPFS at home and meanwhile do things on the internet then IPFS isn’t for you although it’d be a good

IPFS is especially heavy on bandwith if you plan to host IPFS at home and meanwhile do things on the internet then IPFS isn’t for you although it’d be a good excuse to upgrade your home network

salmonlogs 4y ago
That seems like an insane usability trade off that would limit adoption quite heavily
tamrix 4y ago
There's different profiles you can select from. You might have the server profile enabled. Powers save probably consumes the least abs you can opt out of sharing altogether. But the entire point is p2p.
musicale 4y ago
> if you plan to host IPFS at home and meanwhile do things on the internet then IPFS isn’t for you Is it possible to limit the bandwidth and queue depth for IPFS? I bet you could also lower its limit dynamically whenever web traffic is seem.
- ushakov 4y ago
  nope, the only real possibility (to lower bandwith usage) is to disable peering without p2p IPFS is nearly useless
  - musicale 4y ago
    So you're saying it's somehow impossible to deploy QoS management in your network to limit IPFS the same way you would limit anything else? Presumably one could also run IPFS (or Brave) in its own VM, container, or hardware server and to rate limit traffic in and out of it.
    - ushakov 4y ago
      IPFS content loads slow enough without rate limiting rate-limiting will only make the matters worse and again turn IPFS nearly useless they haven't managed to solve these issues for 6 years now
      - musicale 4y ago
        Am I understanding this correctly? 1. IPFS's bandwidth is so low that it is unusable. 2. IPFS's bandwidth usage is so high that it makes the network unusable.
        aftbit 4y ago
        Yes, that has roughly been my experience. The application throughput offered by IPFS is quite low while the packet throughput is very high. I was experiencing 5-15% packet loss over my internet connection while running IPFS. I'm not sure if a bandwidth limit would even help or if it is related to number of connections.
- carapace 4y ago
  "Implement bandwidth limiting" https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/issues/3065 https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/issues/3065 Going on six years now. You can use external tools (like "trickle") or your OS knobs.

IPFS is especially heavy on bandwith if you plan to host IPFS at home and meanwhile do things on the internet then IPFS isn’t for you although it’d be a good excuse to upgrade your home network

salmonlogs 4y ago

That seems like an insane usability trade off that would limit adoption quite heavily

tamrix 4y ago

There's different profiles you can select from. You might have the server profile enabled. Powers save probably consumes the least abs you can opt out of sharing altogether. But the entire point is p2p.

musicale 4y ago

> if you plan to host IPFS at home and meanwhile do things on the internet then IPFS isn’t for you Is it possible to limit the bandwidth and queue depth for IPFS? I bet you could also lower its limit dynamically whenever web traffic is seem.

ushakov 4y ago
nope, the only real possibility (to lower bandwith usage) is to disable peering without p2p IPFS is nearly useless
- musicale 4y ago
  So you're saying it's somehow impossible to deploy QoS management in your network to limit IPFS the same way you would limit anything else? Presumably one could also run IPFS (or Brave) in its own VM, container, or hardware server and to rate limit traffic in and out of it.
  - ushakov 4y ago
    IPFS content loads slow enough without rate limiting rate-limiting will only make the matters worse and again turn IPFS nearly useless they haven't managed to solve these issues for 6 years now
    - musicale 4y ago
      Am I understanding this correctly? 1. IPFS's bandwidth is so low that it is unusable. 2. IPFS's bandwidth usage is so high that it makes the network unusable.
      - aftbit 4y ago
        Yes, that has roughly been my experience. The application throughput offered by IPFS is quite low while the packet throughput is very high. I was experiencing 5-15% packet loss over my internet connection while running IPFS. I'm not sure if a bandwidth limit would even help or if it is related to number of connections.
carapace 4y ago
"Implement bandwidth limiting" https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/issues/3065 https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/issues/3065 Going on six years now. You can use external tools (like "trickle") or your OS knobs.