How to use the eXeem beta.
So if your here, you were obviously selected for beta
testing eXeem. First, lets start off with
what eXeem is. This is NOT Bittorrent, but a
Peer-2-Peer program based off of BT.
QUOTE(suprmedo)
And yes this is P2P client and yes it is
Bittorrent client joust because you cent see actual
.torrent doesn't mean it isn't there. It was already
said in one of the post that actual torrent will be
hidden for the most part from users, but this doesn't
mean that its not used.
Let's talk about configuring the beta. First, go to the
configuration panel. Options/Configuration....
On the listen port, choose whichever port you would
like. It is recommended to choose something outside of
the normal BT port ranges. Mine is set at 6123. If you
have a router, make sure that the port is forwarded. You
can do this by using Judge Dredd's how to here.
http://www.suprnovaforums.net/index.php?showtopic=602The username (mine is set at LocK) is what is shown when
you post a comment on a file. Note that there can be
more than 1 person with the same username, so try and
choose something out of the ordinary if you don't want a
ton of people with the same name.
Next, we have the downloading tab. This should all be
self explanitory. The download folder is where all your
downloaded files will go. The finished download folder
is where the files go when they are done. There is an
option to move files to the finished download folder
after they are done. Mine is turned off.
The max download/upload rate is just what it says. It
will cap your download and upload rate at that amount
per torrent.
The seeding tab has a per seeding torrent settings. This
will allow you to give the maximum connections, maximum
upload slots, and max upload rate for any files you are
seeding. I left mine the same as download limits.
As of Beta .2, auto-stop seeding hasn't been enabled.
When it is, I will update this how to.
The global limits tab just allows you to set the global
limits for the beta. To get the best speeds, it is best
to set your max upload rate at 80% of your full upload
rate. That will give you the best download speed, while
still keeping you from being a leech. smile.gif
Okay, so you've gotten the beta configured,your ports
forwarded, and your ready to download. There are a
couple different ways for you to download using the
beta. The first way is the "new torrents" tab.
Choose the catagory you want to find the new torrents
in, and hit refresh. You can also choose all catagories.
This will give you the latest files that have been
published. The seeds/peers colum shows you how many
people are currently connected to that file, and the
catagory tells you what type it is. Double click on the
file you want, and it will start downloading in your
"transfers" tab.
Searching with the beta is simple, and much like kazaa.
Just type a keyword, select a catagory, and hit search.
The transfers window shows you which files you are
currently seeding/leeching. It also shows the amount of
peers, and your seeding ratio. Right cilcking on a file
will give you the options to Pause, Resume, Cancel, or
Description.
When you click on description, this will come up.
The rating is a new feature that has been added to
reduce the number of fakes. You can select a rating,
post a comment, and view the description.
In the description, the origional publisher can give
information about the release. This is where you could
add what codecs are needed, what the password to a file
is (if you absolutely feel the need to upload a
passworded rar sad.gif ) and any other information about the
release. In the comments section, users can post their
comments about the release. Please don't post comments
asking why the download is going so slow, or "w00t, I'm
getting 100kB/s!".
Finally, lets get into how to publish a torrent. Since
this is the beta, we're going to want to try and use as
much bandwidth as possible, so publishing torrents is a
must.
When you look under File/Publish torrent; this screen
will pop up.
Publishing a file on eXeem is incredibly easy.
Simply choose the path of the file you wish to publish
by either browsing for a file or a directory, select a
name for the published file, choose a catagory, and
finally write a brief description. After you have done
all that, just hit Publish. The beta will automaticly
submit the published file to the new torrents list, and
everyone should be able to start downloading from you.
Note that you do not publish a .torrent file; just the file or
directory you wish to share.
Common questions:
How are fakes going to be delt with?
There is a rating and comment system. This will help
the user find out if the file is fake or not. Also,
suprmedo had this to say about the beta's relationship
to Kazaa.
QUOTE(suprmedo)
The main problem with kazaa is that it
doesn't have hash system which means that if you make
MP3 with same name and same size that's already on the
network and someone downloads one part of this file from
you the MP3 will be corrupted. (This is exactly what
RIAA did to kazaa). And since people don't delete bad
MP3's from their computer you have more and more of this
files in the network. And here is where our client is
different you wont be able to corrupt files in the
network because they have hash.
One more difference from kazaa is that we wont have
entire folders of files on the network only those that
will be manually uploaded from users. Kazaa has so many
viruses because users don't even know they have them on
there computer. So I personally think that we will have
a lot less fake files on our network and we also plan to
implement rate system so that if people find fakes,
viruses, spyware in one of the files they will vote it
as bad so hopfully not many people will download that
file.
What we are trying to do is bring best of P2P world and
best of bittorrent together.
Any other ways of making sure I won't get fakes?
QUOTE(suprmedo)
And for those that will need to be sure
what they are downloading there will always be magnet
links so your friensds that already downloaded the file
will give you link too it so there will be no chance
that you will get fake.
Think eDonkey. smile.gif
If this runs on the Bittorrent protocol, how does work
around the tracker?
QUOTE(suprmedo)
Our system will use swarms as tracker
which means everyone is connected to everyone. This
eliminates need for one central tracker since there will
be 1000 of swarm trackers every torrent will have
one.
I'll try and update this how to as newer versions of the beta come out, but I figured its probably best to write up a quick one so that all the new beta testers don't have hundreds of threads asking the same thing. smile.gif
Also, there are currently 2 different subforums; Bugs, and Suggestions. If you find a bug, please look through the subforum before posting, as we don't want 4 threads with the same bug. Thanks. smile.gif
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