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.
learn more about p2p
A peer-to-peer (or P2P) computer network is a
network that relies primarily 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.
Some networks and channels, such as Napster,
OpenNAP, or IRC @find, use a client-server structure
for some tasks (e.g., searching) and a peer-to-peer
structure for others. Networks such as Gnutella
or Freenet use a peer-to-peer structure for all
purposes, and are sometimes referred to as true
peer-to-peer networks, although Gnutella is greatly
facilitated by directory servers that inform peers
of the network addresses of other peers.
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