Peer To Peer

[Arumakani]

Which is the fastest and safest P2P ?

[Fingernail]

lord knows, but I use emule from time to time and it does the trick.

[Arumakani]

How fast have you d/led on emule? I get really slow d/l's. Also the servers seem dodgy on it.

[Fingernail]

it varies

 

does that answer your question?

 

just kidding, it depends greatly on the popularity of the stuff - emule has a load of obscure stuff but it's usually quite slow to get - days even, as it goes on and off, if it's only being shared by a couple of people.

 

On the other hand, I have had speeds in excess of 20kb/s which although is not fast, is certainly fast enough for the kind of thing I usually get (relatively rare mp3s, the odd bit of sheet music, some software)

[Arumakani]

Thanks. It's just way too slow for me. Pity there aren't faster ones.

[Fingernail]

There may be, I know people who use DC++ or whatever it's called.

[demagogue]

Which is the fastest and safest P2P ?

 

Uh, real life?

[Dram]

Uh, real life?

 

...and your reason for being an ass is?

[Ishtvan]

No p2p is truly safe. You can always get corporate agents who pretend to be peers and then hit your ISP with complaints if one bit of copyrighted information passes from you to them.

 

Real life is okay, but I always get slowdowns at around 50% complete.