I was just on the KaZaa network (shame, shame, I know, but not sharing & with KaZaa Lite)....

And suddenly it struck me.
When you download something on Fasttrack, you're added to a download cue on the server machine....

That's a lot different than on the Gnutella network where the server is just 'busy'.
When you encounter a 'busy' server the client searches other servers and checks back in every 30 - 60 secs.

Doesn't that generate a lot of extra network traffic?
And isn't extra network traffic a bad thing?

My Idea is to have a cue on the server where the client ads itself on and then when there is an upload slot availible, the server gives a "I'm ready, here you have your file' message.
And if you've allready finished your download before the other servers can help you, the client just sends out a 'plz get me (with $this_file) off your cue.

How's that for a 5 sec. Idea?

See http://rfc-gnutella.sourceforge.net/...ella_queue.txt

Well, as they say...gr8 minds think alike.... (And still can't spell...)

So that brings me to my next question...why isn't this implemented yet in all the major Gnutella clones?

Well, if this is going to be part of Cultiv8r, then I think I know which Gnutella client I'll be using.......