Hi As far as I know, it uses file hash as index to locate download URLs, when a client finishes downloading, it sends file hash and URL to Xunlei's server, so the server may associate a file hash to many URLs in different download servers, indecating that they are the same file. When another client download a file from a URL, it send the URL to Xunlei's server, and the server will return to the cilent other URLs it can download in parallel. Compare to downloading from a download server with multi-threads in parallel, downloading from many different servers with multi-threads at the same time will be much faster.
And now, somebody told me it has supported BT protocol, but I haven't used this function, and I don't know how it works. BTW: Newest version FlashGet is very similar to Xunlei, but the latter works better, I think because it has more users, that means it has more (file hash, URL) pairs, especially in China. 2006/12/29, David Barrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Can anyone describe what Xunlei is all about? The rumormill is suggesting Google is making a crazy huge investment into this Chinese P2P company, but I don't know anything about its technology. It sounds like it started out as a download accelerator (like FlastGot) and then added in some P2P download functionality, but I'm not sure what that technology is like. Does it use central indexing servers? DHT? Gnutella? Not sure. Has anyone used it and/or studied it, and can you give your impressions? -david _______________________________________________ p2p-hackers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers
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