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Re: 84 Gigabytes Per Month, Per Connection
by
TierNolan
on 06/05/2015, 23:01:02 UTC
The overall ratio of transfer will be much less than 1:1.

No matter how many full nodes you have on the network, each of them has to download every new block.  This means that the number of blocks downloaded divided by the number of nodes has to be at least 1.

It could be higher if some nodes download the same block from more than 1 node.

This is separate from the initial download.  Some storage nodes are needed for bootstrapping.