Connecting to a P2P Network - ANts p2p and ANts p2p version 2 (kerjodando)

Port Needed to Connect to Ants p2p and Ants p2p version 2 (kerjodando)
Your Enviroment			Can You Connect?
Your Port	Port on Firewall Open?	Port forwarded?	YOU can connect TO OTHERS	OTHERS can connect TO YOU
443	Yes*	Yes	Yes	Yes
443	Yes*	No	Yes	Once you have connected to first user then others can connect to you.
Other Port	Yes	Yes	Yes	Once you have connected to first user then others can connect to you.
Other Port	Yes	No	Yes	Once you have connected to first user then others can connect to you.
Other Port	No	No	No	No
*This port is always open in firewalls;

Feedback From Testing

Good:
Downloads fast
Uploads Fast
Loads of Content

Bad:
Lots of new users could not connect


Connection is the most important part of p2p. Once web gui is done and application made much small so quicker to download the next big priority is connection.

Currently you should have no probs if use port 443 and make sure that this is forwarded.

If you use another port (even if forwarded) then no one will be able to connect to you. You can only connect to others.

If you are behind a firewall or proxy and don't use 443 then you will not be able to connect.

So use port 443, make sure it is forwarded.

Use the proxy option if you're behind a corporate or university proxy like websence.

Tell you friends about it. Then you can make sure that you have someone to connect with and share with.

Dargens File Sharing on TV

See latest look and feel here. Still a lot of work to be done. Now Chinese New year is done we should make faster progress during the year of the Boar (pig).

If you want to download MP3s or videos try Dargens share your life, share your files, be intimate.

itsDargens.com Person to Person Download Service Back Online

ItsDargens.com is back online.

Looking to have new look and feel up by end of Tuesday Chinese time.

Then sort out bugs and get working Beta by end of week.

Aim of the site is to allow people to download files from their old or new friends person to person rather than via internet.

This will make transfers quicker and more private.

The site will also list groups of people and the type of files they are sharing in both a public and private searchable index.

Anonymous P2P in Work Place and University | Websense bypass | Web proxy avoidance

As an experiment I tried to use kerjodando p2p file sharing client in my work place behind the firewall and a websense proxy.

A difficult environment for p2p file sharing similar to that faced by many university students.

Kerjodando p2p (an ANts p2p mod originally developed by Italian student Gwren, Roberto Rossi) connected and I could upload and download files.

Moreover the connection was secure, encrypted and "anonymous" (friend to friend so IP address hidden as file location not linked to IP address as in ordinary file sharing applications).

Generally, to connect to a p2p file sharing network you need to meet three conditions:

1. Your IP address needs to be externally visible to the internet
   
2. You need an open communications port
3. You need access to the internet to upload and download
   

Kerjodando p2p met these three contions as follows:

1. When you click on a swarm "start" link at the swarm index site http://www.itsdargens.com/ the p2p client automatically downloads and sets up your external IP address even if you're behid a firewall, NAT or proxy.
2. Kerjodando p2p spoofs SSL and uses port 443. So if you can surf the internet then it will connect and you can file share. Port 80 and 443 are used for web surfing.
3. Again if you can surf the internet via a browser you can file share. You just need to set-up kerjodando p2p in the same way that the browser was set-up. In my case I looked in the Options|Advanced|connections and found the proxy port and address. I then entered these into kerjodando's proxy setting.

The great thing about this is that while you're file sharing it looks like you either using VOIP, SSL FTP or a secure connection to a website.

So all those students at Zeropaid.com who think that they have been locked out of file sharing now can do it in a secure way.

I am currently testing kerjodando p2p on this page click START KERJODANDO to download the Java client and connect to the test swarm.

You can also set up your own swarms to test.

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