| P2P vs. ISPs - eMule fights back
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| Written by HiVoltage |
Wednesday, 04 October 2006
We hear it all the time. "P2P is so slow.. how do I make it faster? Is it because I'm with OnVOL?" The reason why P2P is ever becoming slower is because ISP's have specialised software/hardware known as "traffic shaper" which can identify P2P traffic and give it low priority. Sometimes it is discriminated so much that it becomes impossible to download anything.
It turns out P2P application developers aren't living in a trance after all. eMule, a very popular application used to share files with other users on the Internet have recently released a new feature - protocol obfuscation. So what is it exactly? In normal cases, P2P traffic is very predictable. It works in a standard manner, and can easily be identified as such by rather simple means. Protocol obfuscation changes this by making the data used for P2P communications appear as random data which is unidentifiable to traffic shapers - or so is the eMule team claiming. At the moment, as this is a very new feature, only a small number of users have obfuscation support on their eMule client, and until everyone upgrades, this will work only with those users who have the latest versions. Also, this feature is not enabled by default, but those users who are suffering from low speed connections because of traffic shapers should simple enable it. We have not yet had the opportunity to test this out, but we would like to hear from you how this affected your speed.
For more information about the eMule protocol obfuscation, click here.
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| Last Updated ( Wednesday, 04 October 2006 ) |
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Posted By richieJ on 07-Oct-2006, 09:07 AM
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