On 27 Sep 2014, at 02:18, Mike Perry mikeperry@torproject.org wrote:
If we were willing to tolerate 10% directory overhead this would allow for 5 times as many users. In other words, 100M daily connecting users.
We would still need to find some way to fund the growth of the network to support this 40X increase, but there are no actual *technical* reasons why it cannot be done.
One thing there isn't an automatic answer to is whether our current users and our would-be users are differ in their usage pattern. Currently, my intuition would be that most of our users are responsible for a relative small amount of traffic, whereas we have some users who pull a lot of data. I wonder what happens with Netflix, youtube and other services. We might at least want to try and figure this into the equation by estimating our average daily bytes sent/received per users, and comparing that to the bytes sent/received by our target group.
Cheers Sebastian