From: david-sarah Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2010 05:26:07 +0000 (-0800) Subject: More specific hyperlink to architecture.rst from helper.rst. refs #1225 X-Git-Url: https://git.rkrishnan.org/FOOURL?a=commitdiff_plain;h=5ce5faf0af485eeb396e0044e7cf75fc069961da;p=tahoe-lafs%2Ftahoe-lafs.git More specific hyperlink to architecture.rst from helper.rst. refs #1225 --- diff --git a/docs/helper.rst b/docs/helper.rst index 19e210e5..a3fcb09c 100644 --- a/docs/helper.rst +++ b/docs/helper.rst @@ -10,12 +10,12 @@ The Tahoe Upload Helper Overview ======== -As described in the "SWARMING DOWNLOAD, TRICKLING UPLOAD" section of -``_, Tahoe uploads require more bandwidth than downloads: you -must push the redundant shares during upload, but you do not need to retrieve -them during download. With the default 3-of-10 encoding parameters, this -means that an upload will require about 3.3x the traffic as a download of the -same file. +As described in the `"Swarming Download, Trickling Upload" section of +architecture.rst `_, +Tahoe uploads require more bandwidth than downloads: you must push the +redundant shares during upload, but you do not need to retrieve them during +download. With the default 3-of-10 encoding parameters, this means that an +upload will require about 3.3x the traffic as a download of the same file. Unfortunately, this "expansion penalty" occurs in the same upstream direction that most consumer DSL lines are slow anyways. Typical ADSL lines get 8 times