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eMule Guide No, it is not an english title: eMule Guide stands for "many italian guides on eMule project". At dawn of May 13th 2002 a guy called Merkur was dissatisfied with the original eDonkey2000 client and was convinced he could do better. So he did. He gathered other developers around him, and eMule Project was born. Their aim was to put the client back on track where eDonkey had been famous before, adding tons of new features and a nice GUI. They couldn't imagine what impact this decision would have ... As of today, eMule is one of the biggest and most reliable peer-to-peer file sharing clients around the world. Thanks to it's open source policy many developers are able to contribute to the project, making the network more efficient with each release. From release v.42.1 on eMule features two different networks – the classic server based eD2k network and a completely new server less topology based on Kademlia. In essence both networks have the same functions. They both provide a separate means of finding other users or files you are wanting to download. It is important to understand that the actual downloading in eMule is not affected by the choice of the network. The network topology is only related to searching for files and finding clients that are sources to a file. Once a source has been found, your client contacts it. The source then reserves a queue place for that specific download. When you reach the first queue place after a certain waiting time you are entitled for receiving data. All files are given a hash value. This hash is a combination of numbers and letters to uniquely identify the file. Numerous filenames may be associated with a file, but this does not change anything about file’s hash value. This allows each user to find all sources to a particular file no matter what file name each user has given the file. In addition, the files are broken into 9.28 MB of parts of data. Each part is also given a hash value. For example a 600 MB file would contain 65 parts. Each part is then given a hash value. Then the file hash is created from these part hashes to be used in the networks. eMule works with all Windows versions after Windows 95. A P2P application uses many network connections and thus needs a stable network implementation. Windows 98 and ME have a very poor network implementation impairing eMule's performance. More recent operating systems like Windows 2000 or XP are better suited. Do not use the registry patches for Windows 98 which promise to raise the possible connections. They do not work properly and may make your system instable ( www.emule-project.net ). For different platforms, please see aMule. aMule is an eMule-like client for the eD2k and Kademlia networks, supporting multiple platforms. Currently aMule ( officially ) supports a wide variety of platforms and operating systems, being compatible with more than 60 different hardware+OS configurations.
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