I propose to organize some community stress tests once we have the global (test) network up and running. We’ll pick a relatively long HD video, upload it, and then pick a timeframe in which we’ll try to get as many people to watch that video in full. We’ll ask everyone to confirm in one thread that they’re participating in the test, so we’ll have an estimate on the number of particants involved. Other stats like vault address density will let us estimate the amount of online vaults in the network, and provided that the network is still relatively small, we should notice a measurable increase in bandwidth consumption on our vaults during that time frame.
This could provide very valuable input for the design of SAFE’s economic algorithms. If we find that the network is likely going to be very short on bandwidth, we may want to design algorithms in such a way that they dissuade uploads and/or downloads of huge files somehow.