Freenet 0.5.1 Released, P2P Network Stabilizing

**wessman** · March 19th, 2003, 02:07 PM

Freenet 0.5.1 Released, P2P Network Stabilizing
from the gonna-get-scary dept.
posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday March 18, @09:31 (internet)
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/18/1354244

mids writes "With version 0.5.1, [0]Freenet isn't only the most secure & anonymous P2P network, but also getting pretty fast! Reliable downloading of files as large as 700MB from Freenet at average download rates as high as 100k/sec on a broadband internet connection are sighted (which compares quite favorably to more conventional P2P applications)."

Links:
0. http://freenetproject.org/

**gnutellafan** · March 21st, 2003, 10:36 AM

This release really makes freenet a viable alternative to other p2p networks. Now if more users would just jump on board and be permanate/static nodes and share some decent disc space (give at least 1gb - come on hd space is cheap!)

**isus** · May 9th, 2003, 04:34 PM

i tried freenet back in the day... didn't work. at all. kept giving errors. so i gave up *shrug*

**MusikBeatz23** · May 9th, 2003, 04:55 PM

I tried it a while back maybe 3 months ago & i didnt like it but every P2P app deserves a second chance ill try it again... i gave shareaza a second chance and i liked it...

**evilmegaman** · May 9th, 2003, 05:21 PM

Originally posted by isus
i tried freenet back in the day... didn't work. at all. kept giving errors. so i gave up *shrug*

Isus.. back in the day, Freenet didn't even work :mellow

**crackerjacker** · May 9th, 2003, 05:44 PM

the indexing requires a key, by far the way to obtain it is such intolerable that i wouldnt use it again.
i mean sure it may work for you but back when this came out way long ago it required a set number of keys and no searching was allowed.
well good luck nice idea but not good for me hehe.

**endersgame21** · May 9th, 2003, 06:17 PM

Wow, although that is good to hear safety and anonymousity isn't really an issue for me. I personally think that the chances of me or anybody else that visits zeropaid getting caught are very very small. But this is good news because now we know that if safety does become a problem there is a network out there that is a viable option.

**isus** · May 9th, 2003, 06:19 PM

Originally posted by evilmegaman
Isus.. back in the day, Freenet didn't even work :mellow

lol. i will think about trying it again. does it still require java?

i only trust sun's java, and i don't have that installed... so if it requires java, then im sorry :-\ but i won't use it.

*watching the first matrix on fox right now... the fields of babies... lol*