On Tue, May 20, 2003 at 06:21:51PM -0700, Ian Clarke spake thusly: > Amuzingly many of the BitTorrent indexes have gone down due to > slashdotting. This may be a good time to advocate Freenet as a > more-or-less Slashdot-proof BitTorrent alternative with the added bonus > of anonymity.
I have friends who are really into bittorrent. bittorrent does not have the problem of data falling out of the network so easily (ie. much more reliable), having to deal with java, and it is generally faster. I downloaded some "video and audio content" the other night at 140k/s for one stream and around 70 for another. I have seen freenet get up to 90 but not lately because I haven't been able to assemble a full splitfile of any size in a month or two. Freenet clearly has bittorrent beat on anonymity and being decentralized and overall I think freenet has the potential to be better technology for even just plain file transfers but it has quite a ways to go. -- Tracy Reed http://ultraviolet.org -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 240 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20030521/4e87c562/attachment.pgp>
