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Old July 13th, 2001
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Post Re: speed problems
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The reason GNet is so slow is that the pings and pongs take up almost 50% of the total network bandwidth. The people at LimeWire have made up a pong caching strategy to prevent excess broadcasting and forwarding of pings, you can read the article here.

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