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Re:In Argentina, cheap government-issued netbooks sparked a ... by Scoundreller on Thursday June 17, 2021 @04:34PM (#27544262)
Does IPFS do a good job of intermittently-online mostly-offline nodes with potentially non-linear updates?

Been spitballing the same concepts but with mobile phones (on a person or stashed on aircraft doing their weekly freight/mail run) where unused space is the bandwidth. Can move hundreds of gbs at zero cost but meh latency, as you’re imagining.

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Re:In Argentina, cheap government-issued netbooks sparked a ... by viraptor on Thursday June 17, 2021 @07:26PM (#27545597)
Not by default. You need to figure out how to connect to the network, which works great if you know how to reach other nodes - but in the small cell scenario? I don't believe they have a reliable local network discovery.
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Re:In Argentina, cheap government-issued netbooks sparked a ... by swiley on Thursday June 17, 2021 @08:38PM (#27546069)
I haven't seen anything IPFS does better than bittorent.
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Re:In Argentina, cheap government-issued netbooks sparked a ... by viraptor on Thursday June 17, 2021 @09:26PM (#27546422)
It can reference separate files and repackage existing files into new directories. For some kinds of usage, that's a massive benefit.
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Re:In Argentina, cheap government-issued netbooks sparked a ... by StavrosK on Thursday June 17, 2021 @05:29PM (#27544674)
In my experience, IPFS doesn't even do a good job of fully-online updates. Maybe my setup was bad, but I couldn't get it to reliably and quickly discover content on other nodes that were definitely online.
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