P2P

[1984]

Emule or Bit torrent. Which in your opinion is a better system? Which bit torrent is best? any other file sharing apps that are good? thanks!

[rridgely]

I use bittorent to download some things(all legal). I download thing like podcasts and free software with it because if there are a lot of people seeding the file then its faster than a downloading it any other way.

 

I like azureus because out of all the ones I tried(about 6) it was the fastest.

http://azureus.sourceforge.net/

 

I do have utorrent on my jumpdrive though just because its so small and dosent require an install.

http://www.utorrent.com/

[1984]

Ok, so here is another question.

 

Could I have on my website a link to a p2p download, and give the exact file, so if i want people to download files from me, i could use the P2P instead of holding the file on a server/website/cyberspace or whatever?

 

Im not sure if that is a clear question. What i am hoping to do, is store files on my computer, and allow people to upload them via a P2P program. This way, i dont need alot of storage for a website. i think it will help keep costs down on a site, or if small enough, i can use the one my internet provider gives me.

 

was that clear?

[rridgely]

yeah you could use bittorent to seed the file and let people download it. The only problem is if you have 1 seed and 20 people downloading it will be sloooowww. But if you can get the people who downloaded the file to seed it then you should be alright.

[Eldmannen]

eMule might be easier to use as you can just search from the application.

With BitTorrent you need to find the torrents.

BitTorrent heavily uses swaming to multi-source download, hence it can get very fast downloads.

 

I like alot DC++.

[JohnDemolition]

eMule sucks for a lot of reasons. mainly because it's SLOOOOOOOW. BitTorrent is quite nice though. ?Torrent would have to be the best BT client out there.

[TheTOM_SK]

Bittorent is great fo downloading big files (CD and DVD images, videos, software).

Emule is nice for searching and downloading small files (music, short videos, pictures).

[Eldmannen]

Bittorent is great fo downloading big files (CD and DVD images, videos, software).

Emule is nice for searching and downloading small files (music, short videos, pictures).

 

Yes, I agree. BitTorrent is more suitable for large files while eMule more suitable for smaller files.

 

The BitTorrent client that I use is ABC [Yet Another Bittorrent Client]. It is an free, open-source BitTorrent client for Windows. Written in Python using wxPython (wxWidgets GUI toolkit).