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> Skynet's speeds rival centralized providers and surpass all decentralized offerings. A typical Skynet download starts in under 500 ms and can stream at rates as high as 1 Gbps!

I tried to download the PDF sample on the frontpage and the download never actually started. It kept waiting for the server to begin transmitting the file...



Tried the mp4. After a wait of 30 seconds or so, it started downloading at about 15 MBit/sec on a 200 MBit/sec broadband connection.


1 gbps us if you are running your own node, when you are on a public node you are sharing the speeds with hundreds of other users


Didn't download for me either


It worked and was essentially instantaneous for me.


Europe servers are struggling, US servers are doing fine. We're still building out our load balancing strategy.




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