What
is Shareaza?
Shareaza has features that are unheard of in
other file-sharing applications, from ghost ratings
to a completely user-configurable queue area
to multinetwork support. Shareaza originally started
out as an Gnutella client, but recently branched
out and developed Gnutella2, a completely
open and documented network. Boasting 50,000 users,
Gnutella2 is well on its way to the top. In addition,
Shareaza supports the eDonkey network
and BitTorrent. Shareaza's interface is easy-to-use
yet powerful, and fully skinnable.
Shareaza's download core was purpose-built to
provide optimum performance from any number of
sources. Shareaza can manage your download
queue automatically, or you can take charge and
modify the status of files or even individual
physical transfers and sources.
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About P2P
A peer-to-peer (or P2P) computer network is a network
that relies on the computing power and bandwidth
of the participants in the network rather than concentrating
it in a relatively low number of servers. P2P networks
are typically used for connecting nodes via largely
ad hoc connections. Such networks are useful for
many purposes. Sharing content files (see file sharing)
containing audio, video, data or anything in digital
format is very common, and realtime data, such as
telephony traffic, is also passed using P2P technology.
A pure peer-to-peer network does not have the
notion of clients or servers, but only equal peer
nodes that simultaneously function as both "clients"
and "servers" to the other nodes on
the network. This model of network arrangement
differs from the client-server model where communication
is usually to and from a central server. A typical
example for a non peer-to-peer file transfer is
an FTP server where the client and server programs
are quite distinct, and the clients initiate the
download/uploads and the servers react to and
satisfy these requests.
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