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P2P on Internet2

A new P2P boom has began to spread on the super-fast Internet2, the research network used by several universities around the world. The network can't be accessed directly by any of the regular ISPs, but is still available for most of the students who have broader Net access rights on universities with Internet2 connections.

The new form P2P seems to be growing around the mega-popular DC++ P2P software that is widely used in "traditional Internet" as well, but the difference is that all of the users are connecting to a hub that is located within the Internet2 -- a restricted zone from "outsiders", people who can access only the good old Net. Transfer speeds can, and often will, reach to levels where the HDD speed is the limiting factor, not the Net connection.



More information:

i2hub.com
News.com

Written by: Petteri Pyyny @ 30 Apr 2004 15:27

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• 8 comments

• Dela

  Ok lets just sit back and watch the RIAA response to this!

  30.4.2004 15:43 #1

• seamonkey

  whoa......
  .. .....
  
  i want..
  perhaps i'll have to go back and get my masters in philosophy after all.. hehe...

  30.4.2004 16:53 #2

• fartpoop

  yeah its all about "free trade" i tried that dc++ i thought that people was kinda greedy, so i dont bother using it. and the RIAA can do what they do best
  spend money.

  30.4.2004 20:54 #3

• leo8013

  how do i get this

  30.4.2004 21:00 #4

• RockGrlMN

  Hey can someone help me out what is a dat file in my shared folder on kazaa it is like download39204837565208934 you know something like that. What does it mean? Please help I am at kitkatbabemn at yahoo dot com thanks a whole lot!
  -k

  30.4.2004 23:20 #5

• dRD

  It seems someone wants to get banned..

  1.5.2004 09:16 #6

• zombieman

  Thats a incomplete file download. No reason to get banned for that, after all, we dont know what the file is until its complete.

  1.5.2004 09:47 #7

• Toiletman

  What dRD really meant was that he should get banned because he's still using a Kazaa, a piece of shitty software that can be counted as bad as a virus. Let's hope it's Lite. ;)

  1.5.2004 20:43 #8