Network speed when it grows

30 HOPS at max with 1 billion users, what I remember from this topic. But if 75% of all data is like what we have on BitTorrent and Popcorn-time now, caching would kick in and maybe that data is only 4 HOPS away on average. Let’s assume we have 2GB. we want to request from the network. That’s 2048 chunks. So the client requests data form the first 40 chunks, some chunks will come in after 2 seconds, others will take maybe 5 or 6 seconds, but a client can’t download all that stuff at once. So the slower chunks will be cached by our close nodes as they wait for our node to fix downloading the fast chunks. That’s how I see it.

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