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Posted by user on 08/16/06 10:39
"Big Bob Smith" <YouCantHandleTheTruth@nonya.net> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 15 Aug 2006 04:00:02 GMT, "Morton Davis" <antikerry@go.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>>"user" <user@localhost> wrote in message
>>news:44e0f545$0$7949$db0fefd9@news.zen.co.uk...
>>>
>>> "nascartrekkie3" <nascartrekkie3@comcast.net> wrote in message
>>> news:JeednfwWDtnnmUHZnZ2dnUVZ_tadnZ2d@comcast.com...
>>> > When running as a primary, if I switch my preferred peer cache from
>>> > one
>>to
>>> > another, do I have to disconnect, and then reconnect for it to go into
>>> > effect? What about the DL's currently going when I switch?
>>>
>>> Switching regions does absolutely nothing.
>>>
>>>
>>I can't understand why anyone would want to mess with that. I just use
>>whatever I get when the prtogram runs. Never had any problems with WinMx.
>
> It does make a significant difference............just like people
> being connected to different primaries...........it depends on who is
> conencted to who..........
>
> Big Bob Smith
Changing region does nothing though disconnecting (dropping all
primaries)/reconnecting (sourcing new primaries) does. If you perceive
regional differences then I think that's just going to be down to your own
perception and not actually based on any truth (that the underlying primary
protocol does not seemingly concern itself with regionalisation). The
client left to run of its own accord will just progressively 'spider' its
way around the WPN without regard for region as and when primary connections
come and go (when the P= value changes).
If any of the present caches used any sort of regionalisation (for
primaries), and I believe that they don't (KM/Ranma caches), then the only
effect it would have would be upon the initial query a user's client makes
to a cache server upon starting the WinMX application. Once the user has
connected to the WPN though the primaries that the client connects with are
sourced at random from communications the clients have with other peers.
Cache servers are not used again once the primary client has connected to
the network except, possibly, on the offchance some catastrophic failure
with the client/user's connection occurs (where it could potentially lose
all 'knowledge' of other peers on the WPN to connect to and so forced to
call back on a cache server for addresses).
If you know any better I'd love to hear it. ;)
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