If you really want to do that, you should download the whole blockchain on a computer with a faster network connection and put it onto a memory stick, then use that to give your node a head start.
Downloading the complete blockchain (a bit more than 12 GB) over your 640Kb/s link would take a little less than 2 days if you used the whole bandwidth all the time. In practice, if you let your node fetch blocks from peers it will take quite a bit longer.
Ask yourself whether doing this just out of curiousity is worth the effort and time.
Onkel Paul
Topic: Running a node on a low-bandwith link (Read 442 times)
Why would you want to do it anyway?
For testing purposes only, to see how things work and possibly understand something more about bitcoins.I would not have an appropriate HW to mine anyway.
Thanks for your reply.
It's probably possible but could maybe saturate the link.
Why would you want to do it anyway? For mining, pools are preferrable. Some wallets such as bitcoin-qt require the blockchain to be present, but other such as Multibit don't, so you could use a local wallet without being a full node. I think that would be the best option for a low-bandwidth situation.
Onkel Paul
Why would you want to do it anyway? For mining, pools are preferrable. Some wallets such as bitcoin-qt require the blockchain to be present, but other such as Multibit don't, so you could use a local wallet without being a full node. I think that would be the best option for a low-bandwidth situation.
Onkel Paul
I know this might have been already addressed on this forum, but I have not found any specific post.
I'm based in Italy and have a really slow network connection 640 Kb/s download and 256 Kb/s upload.
Any chance to run a node on that link ?
Anybody has already attempted that ?
I'm based in Italy and have a really slow network connection 640 Kb/s download and 256 Kb/s upload.
Any chance to run a node on that link ?
Anybody has already attempted that ?
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