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by dark-star
23 days ago
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The problem with Gnutella was that it was always slower than the direct competitor, EDonkey (aka EMule, aka ed2k, aka Kademlie later, etc.) Searching took ages (if you got any results back at all), and when you tried to download something it took ages to even start, dripping through your dial-up internet like molasses. EDonkey on the other hand was quick. The first search results usually arrived within seconds (granted, it took equally long to get all search results), and usually downloads started (slowly) after a few seconds to 1 or 2 minutes. I don't know if this was because of popularity (more peers in ed2k so faster download speeds) or if it was a particular problem with dial-up internet (Gnutella worked better for people with fast internet, like at universities etc., at least from what I heard back then) |
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