CONFIGURATION


Options

Selecting Options then Preferences as in the above example opens a configuration screen for frost.  Much of the configuration defaults will work fine for frost.  It is the author's opinion that one setting needs to be adjusted for a more effecient experience with frost:

Configure

The section in the above screen indicating Minimum HTL is best changed to 15, this is a default HTL setting for normal freenet retrieval.  I have set the Maximum HTL to 25 as HTL's beyond 25 at this time are not very meaningful in freenet.  Perhaps as the network grows using higher Maximum HTL's will be of a benefit.  HTL is called Hops To Live and refers to the depth with which a file is searched for in the system before the search is aborted.   Additionally, in the Number of splitfile threads section, if you are on a fast connection, having a fast computer, you can use a number between 20 and 30 to see some amazingly fast download speeds using frost. 

upload configuration

Click the upload tab next and use the above figures.  Some have suggested using Upload HTL of 25 for inserting.  If you find people are always not able to retrieve the files you upload you may wish to increase from 20 to 25, but this author is recommending 20 at the moment.  

news configuration

And finally clicking on the News tab and using the above values should give you reasonably good success with messaging retrieval/insertion in frost.  Once you make those  changes, you may click on OK and proceed with frost as normal.

Discontinue Auto Updating

One final consideration.  Click on the News heading on frost and look at the Automatic board update section which is highlighted in yellow here.  If it has a check mark in the box for that listing, click on that box to deselect automatic board updating if you are on a slow connection (automatic board updating works well if you are running frost 24/7 on a dedicated connection or if you are on a fast connection, so if one of those applies to you, you can leave Automatic board update checked).  We shall discuss updating boards in more detail inside of this manual.

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