Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by e12e 4491 days ago
So, lets assume every viewer can broadcast to three others, so the first one reaches 3 that reaches 9 etc. You'd be "behind" 7 others for "up to" 2187 viewers. This is assuming no "super hubs" in between. Or am I missing something? Even if every peer on average is only able to reach two "new" peers, that's still just 10 hops for 1024 users...?