Napster and Gnutella Measurements

belswick writes "UW has posted a paper titled "Measuring and Analyzing the Characteristics of Napster and Gnutella Hosts" at Washington in PDF form. Interesting reading for those who implement P2P software, with actual measurements, tools, and topologies. You 3l33t H4x0rz are ACM members, R1gh4?" You can get a cache of the PDF and view it online as well.

Comments

You think that's bad...

[jargoone]

My company's intranet has all of our insurance claim forms on the web. They had recently redone the site, and I needed a claim form. I tried to do it from work, but seeing how I have an Ultra 5 and a client with a very restrictive software policy, I couldn't view the Word document posted. I figured it was the form itself, so I waited until I got home. When I did, I opened up the document, and was astonished to find that the document contained one line: a link to the insurer's website.

I would like to get my hands on those developers... luckily they're 300 miles away.

is it me or...

[boogy nightmare]

Do you alter the phrase from 'peer to peer' to 'idiots to me' in the privacy of your own head :)

Does anyone care?

[AKAImBatman]

27 comments and not one actually on topic. Does anyone care about these statistics? Or know what to do with them? For that matter, has anyone successfully read the paper without their eyes glazing over? I'm sure its a fascinating paper to someone, but I can't get past the first two pages without loosing all concentration. And I'm weird enough that I usually like this stuff!

Re:For those of you who despise PDFs for simple te

[AKnightCowboy]

...here's the HTML Version courtesy of Google.

And here's the text summary from the researcher:

Stop using P2P clients you fscking pirates, you're wasting all my pr0n bandwidth at the university.

Re:Shame they didn't consider Freenet

[sjwt]

from http://freenetproject.org/index.php?page=download

"Download Freenet
Important note for first time users
When you first start Freenet your node will know very little about the network - it could take up to several minutes or longer to open a website. Keep trying, because the more you use Freenet, the faster it will get. "