In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Adam Back <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >And gnutella is not able to resume a transfer that dies part way >through which is very bad for download reliability. FastTrack/Kazza >(but no longer Morpheus since the Kazza / Morpheus fall-out) on the >other hand can resume, and in fact do multiple simultaneous downloads >from multiple nodes having the same content so that it gets the >content both much faster and much more reliably. Also helps cope with >different link speeds as a group of slow nodes or asymmetric bandwidth >nodes (like cable with fast down but limited up) can satisfy the >download of cable and other broadband users.
Wait; as far as I know, Fasttrack's and Gnutella's file-transfer protocols are *identical* (but not their search protocols). If Gnutella doesn't support resuming downloads and grabbing from many people at once, that's just a client-side issue, not a protocol issue. [That being said, grabbing from multiple people at once requires you know *who's got* the _very same file_. The FastTrack protocol supports "search by hash value", but Gnutella doesn't seem to. Should be easy to fix, though.] - Ian
