The development process seems to be heating up at neo-modus.com with them finally picking up the pace. Their newest build has a few major protocol additions, namely support for Tiger Tree Hash Exchange (THEX). This is something Direct Connect has always needed and recently has kept it behind the current generation of p2p applications.
Straight from the neo-modus.com site:
Today’s a big day for Direct Connect. We’ve released a new weekly build that brings a great new feature into the client – Tiger Tree Hashes. Most of you won’t, don’t and shouldn’t know what this is. What it lets you do is what matters. Tiger Tree Hashes allow Direct Connect to find alternate sources for the files in your queue. These alternate matches are based on the content of the file, rather than its name. So, if two people have two copies of the same file, but with totally different names, and you start downloading from 1 of them and they leave, Direct Connect will automatically find the other copy and start downloading!
The feature required quite a bit of work to integrate, but make sure to try it out by right clicking on files in your queue and choosing ‘Auto Complete’ or ‘Find exact copy’. If ‘Find exact copy’ isn’t in your menu, it means you started downloading the original file from a user who did not support tiger tree hashing – no worries, as more people start using this build, the feature will become more prevalent.
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