Hashing

**yogaman** · September 17th, 2002, 20:43

okay... i think this is how the process is called used by emule and edonkey (i think) to ensure that the shared programs are the same in size and don't contain any errors. The problem is that I heard that using file sharing programs such as kazaa don't support it and therefore by downloading bigger file sizes there often turn out be errors.... I'm not really sure if it is really true but since I got a good connection now - and consider to download bigger files I'd like to know if it is a big deal and if frequent resumes mess it up...... also I'd be glad if anybody could recommend me any other program supports hashing

**Stezo2k** · September 17th, 2002, 20:49

yep its true, i downloaded the one a few days ago, and there was a slight glitch, a part froze media player, but i fixed it with divfix and it works fine

Stez

**Allnatural** · September 18th, 2002, 05:34

Hashing is used to identify files so that you can download from multiple sources even if the file names don't match. That in itself doesn't help to prevent errors as far as I know.

Except for eDonkey, I don't know of any P2P program that uses hashing, but I haven't used any others for some time.

**Stezo2k** · September 18th, 2002, 09:23

im sure it will be intergrated into something popular soon (i doubt kazaa, cuz they dont care about the users as long as their using it)

Stez

**mesman00** · September 18th, 2002, 15:34

is there any reason why i never connect to edonkey?? is there something special i have to do...i'm connected to a network at my university.

**iq_132** · September 18th, 2002, 15:36

They might have e-donkey blocked: some universities get a little upset about students using a ton of bandwidth...

**Stezo2k** · September 18th, 2002, 16:07

Originally posted by mesman00
is there any reason why i never connect to edonkey?? is there something special i have to do...i'm connected to a network at my university.

never worked 4 me either

and im 56k

Stez

**RPGlover12** · September 18th, 2002, 16:16

maybe ur firewall on i heard it may stop coz of the firewall dunno if thats true or not though

**Stezo2k** · September 18th, 2002, 18:41

mabie, i do have norton firewall 2k2, thats probably the problem, ill try it later, thanx

Stez

**iq_132** · September 18th, 2002, 18:43

Isn't the title of this thread a bit misleading?

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