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people,
the p2p discussion is going like real hot these days. most of the topics have started in a totally different topic and have ended in a big discussion on p2p softwares
here i am giving some of the popupar ones.
am giving a poll option for everybody to give their views.
some of them:-
1) limewire
2) kazaa (which is supposedly going into extinction)
3) edonkey
4) emule
5) torrent
6) morpheus
7) warez
8) imesh
9) bearshare
10) k-lite
11) winmx
am sure people have more of them around.
cheers
What about sharezza? IMHO one of the better p2p clients to use if you absolutley must use something. Allways good download speeds and multi network acsess
SFTP via predefined users? Torret, I suppose, for blind sharing due to the community nature of it combined with the natural interface/protocol simplicity for widespread use.
If the material isn't sensitive, torrent. If it is, try http://waste.sourceforge.net/
I prefer torrents.
and so am i :)Quote:
is it true that file transfer is faster in torrents than with other softwares. went to the site and it claims this. as for me i have been using winmx and limewire for sometime now. cant say that i am not satisfied. but anything faster is always better.
I'm always surprised that Ares doesn't make lists like this. It's been my old standby for a few years now.
I've been using p2p software for a while... It's actually how I came to enjoy a lot of internet functions... how I discovered IRC and all the joys surrounding it, including running my own server and eventually Linux...
If you are interested in the community surrounding P2P technology, check out http://www.p2pchat.net/
As a side note, I currently use Limewire on my Mac, and I also use xfs on irc... Which hasn't even been talked about and has been running for a very, very long time. You can't shut down individuals! [well you could... but I imagine it would be a very long arduous, expensive process...]
Hi
The file transfer speed largely looms over the amount of your bandwidth and the distance between the source from where the transfer is done and your pc. Both p2p and torrents are governed by these facts.
In torrents the client software on your pc firstly allocates the space for the download and then fills it with data. With torrents the data transfer is taking place from all the sources where the data is present in complete form and from the users who are currently downloading it. So if the no. of users are more who are downloading that file then you will get a higher speed. If content being downloaded is new then you will see more people downloading it.
In p2p networks the download takes place from users who have the full copy of the data. So if there are more users online with the thing you want then you will have more speed.
Overall torrents have an advantage that a user can download form the other users downloading that file.
so the torrent software runs more or less like kazaa. it uses the same function, downloading bits from everybody. but then the problem rose of the spyware and the adware which came with it. it then rises to such a level that it almost distroys the machine. also the virus protection given with kazaa was also crap.
but kazaa, on the other hand, helped me start a new hobby-collecting viruses.(those major ones)
checked out ARES also.
i have been downloading stuff for quite some time now. movies, games, lots of music that i have is shared. was using winmx but currently i am using limewire. its ok and one can easily differentiate between the corrupted files and the good ones. and more importantly i can transfer the downloaded file into another folder(of course, once its downloaded). didnt get that option with imesh and bearshare.
ARES seems to be a good option for games and music too (am still looking into it now)
Hi
A very good and effective torrent client software is Azureus 2.3.0.6
This client for torrents provides good speeds for downloading.
Azureus == java && java != speed
If you want torrents and speed, try libtorrent and the rtorrent frontend http://libtorrent.rakshasa.no/
Now that is speed..
How they do it..So it won't work on Windows right now.. just the NIX's..Quote:
The library differentiates itself from other implementations by transfering direcly from file pages to the network stack. On high-bandwidth connections it is able to seed at 3 times the speed of the official client.
This is what we are using in the test versions of our Broadcatching (RSS+BitTorrent) app SwarmTv
I do not realy like p2p's but torrent is good for downloading from some sites that have it as an alternative.
I'm suprised that e-mule didn't get a mention in the Poll, so i had to choose the last option..
anyhow e-mule is located HERE
that's if anyone's interested.. ;)