BitTorrent client: eXeem « alex.moskalyuk

BitTorrent client: eXeem

eXeem Public Beta is available for download. Coming from the guys who brought the world SuprNova, eXeem is an attempt to re-organize the BitTorrent protocol into a Kazaa-like network of nodes, where each node is both a publisher and consumer of shared files. BitTorrent protocol by default supports the concept of tracker – a central computer where the information about the file is located, and where the original file is usually shared initially. Bram Cohen’s idea was never to build a Kazaa look-alike, he was aiming for software and music publishers who wanted to distributed their works online, but also wanted to keep track of how many copies have been downloaded. Hence the tracker would initially help with file distribution and at any point provide valid info as far as how many users were downloading.

Naturally, if the content distributed is illegal, it makes it easy for the copyright owner to find out the location of the tracker server and shut it down. Regardless of the number of users actively engaged in download, the file sharing would not resume in the absence of trackers. eXeem’s solution? Make everyone a tracker.

One thing you’d notice after launching eXeem is that it takes a while to connect to the networks. The software shows reasonable speeds, comparable with other BitTorrent clients, including the official one, when you have the torrent file ready, so all that’s needed is to connect to the tracker and start downloading. I used a file from Legal Torrents to try out the default download speeds.

However, if you want to launch searches using eXeem, you’ll have to give it some time, as right away the software does not connect to the peers. The search quality was pretty good, but nothing extraordinary, with most of the popular files fetching 2-3 results. However, the downloads started almost right away, which is definitely an improvement over original SuprNova.

According to FAQ, eXeem works without a problem on Windows XP SP2. It also works on Windows 98, ME, 2000. If it does not want to run on 98/ME or 2000, try installing Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Runtime files from Service Pack 6. There are currently no versions of eXeem™ for Linux or Mac.

Download eXeem beta
Visit eXeem SuprNova site
Read about BitTorrent overtaking eDonkey, Kazaa FastTrack and Gnutella

Posted Saturday, January 29th, 2005 under BitTorrent clients, New software releases, Review.

http://eXeems-support.no-ip.org Nev

eXeems is now in public beta 0.24 which gives a far more stable network and (obviously) fewer bugs. eXeems DOES NOT CONTAIN SPYWARE OR MALWARE OF ANY SORT, but does contain ads within the software. The best solution to this, is to do a full install, then run adaware to remove the ads (this doesn’t effect the running of eXeem). eXeem itself is not just a BitTorrent client, in fact, the BitTorrent client is just a bonus! – It has it’s own network (similar to Kazaa) with it’s own format for links. These “links” can be found either by using the built in search engine (not very effective I’m afraid) or by going to http://www.eXeems.com and searching there. There is also a support site at http://eXeems-support.no-ip.org that offers full support and help for the product. They also have their own forum community which is currently expanding to include news and reviews on games and applications for the PC and consoles. Well actually just the PS2 and XBox, are there any other consoles worth writing about?
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