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Peer5 Downloader: Peer-assisted file downloads using WebRTC

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One annoying aspect of it, is that my firewall is asking me to allow every single peer connection. Would it be possible to use a single port for UDP that I can whitelist?

Interesting, no one mentioned it when using sharefest, it is possible to tell the STUN server to restrict which udp ports are being used so you can specify 65500-65600 and whitelist them What firewall you have on your comp that fires that?

I'm using little snitch and only have TCP ports 80, 443, 8080 and 1935 (flash) whitelisted for Chrome.

If you'd like to learn more checkout Peer5's open source projects [1] for pure p2p file sharing, And [2] for a flexible AJAX api built on top of the same stack. [1] github.com/peer5/sharefest [2] github.com/peer5/P2PXHR

Sleek simple solution, just like bittorrent.

Wonder if it can be used to peer-to-peer other stuff, other than file downloads. CDN boosting ? Ajax broadcast content ( e.g. NewsFeeds, live marketing notifications )?

Yeah, for that you would want to use the general purpose API (which is AJAX like). See https://github.com/Peer5/P2PXHR. It's still a little under-documented, so let me know if you're having trouble hacking it...

Looks interesting but if this is a product then what's its price?

It's currently for free, at least for the beta. Plans will be announced soon. Promise!

I downloaded a 200MB file and 94% were downloaded from peers? Is that what you're saying? That's crazy

Yes, that's what you got exactly, but I have to admit that this is quite extreme, and you should not expect to download so much from peers every time...

Demo Fail: When I tried to download the 200MB file, Chrome is reporting server errors...

You may have some warnings on XHR expirations if you're coming from a slow connection. What is the error?

We have a business-class 100Mbps connection.

Chrome shows "Failed - Server problem" with chrome tools showing the request as "Method: HEAD - Status: (canceled)"

What's your Chrome version and OS?

Windows 7 running the latest version of chrome

Works great for me :-|

very very fast

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