Gnutella usage tops 1M
p2pnet.net News:- Gnutella network usage has topped one million concurrent users, says LimeWire cto Greg Bildson.
“LimeWire has revised its crawling methodologies to allow for improved Gnutella network statistics,” he says, going on:
“It should have been fairly obvious that the network has been growing. Our combination of UDP crawling with the existing TCP crawl is giving back a better measure of the network.
“The numbers are still undercounting leaves of various clients and missing some peers, but the overall measure is getting closer.”
November 8th, 2004 at 11:17 am
If there is one thing you can be sure with Gnutella, – it’s that its developers are continuing to improve it. I think it won’t be long until Gnutella beats the likes of FastTrack and ed2k, both of which have not seen many improvements recently.
November 8th, 2004 at 7:34 pm
“If there is one thing you can be sure with Gnutella, – it’s that its developers are continuing to improve it.”
I’ve played with all the various P2P applications over the years, and while I’m admittedly no lover of the mp3 format, I have to say my recent experiences with the Gnutella-1 network (via the open source app Shareaza which also supports Gnutella-2, ed2k, and BitTorrent) have been overwhelmingly good. Speeds are very very fast, especially if there is more than one source (though even one source is usually fairly fast too). With a popular mp3 file (even a large one) that has at least 2 to 3 sources, downloads usually take only seconds on my DSL connection. Easily the fastest downloads I’ve ever seen. Not a great network if your looking for anything else though. But for all those Kazaa folks into sharing music who are looking for an alternative, this is certainly one really great option for them.