No downloads on full node

Our recent testing cycles involved uploading pieces to nodes that still have space and then redownloading them. If your node it already full, you will not get download traffic from those tests. You may get some egress from our first real customers if your node is holding some of their data and they decide they need to download some files. Your full node will still get paid for storing the pieces it holds, so this data is not completely worthless. We should be doing other types of testing soon to also download pieces from already full nodes. Real customers will probably have different usage patterns, but we still don’t expect them to generate huge amounts of download traffic at least in the beginning when they are just exploring the functionalities of the network. As we get closer to production, I would expect that our test data will start getting deleted slowly from full nodes to make room for real customer data as demand increases. Again, I would not label the test data as worthless, we do not expect higher download rates from real customer data at production release than what our tests are currently providing.

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