Comments on: Italians love eMule

By: plagio

plagio — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Not to mention that over here in Italy one of the most fast and popular DSL provider (fastweb) uses a NAT network were all the people shares the same IP towards the internet. This means that they are quite stuck with torrents since they are not directly reachable BUT there is this really famous eMule mod called adunanza wich connects all fastweb clients using the kademilia protocol. This gives these users only eMule to share but with really fast downloads.

By: soulxtc

soulxtc — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

interesting.

By: Christoph

Christoph — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Pardon?Telecom Italia is making this?

By: plagio

plagio — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Nope not telecom Italia. Fastweb. They were the first to offer a DSL without any phone monthly fee to pay. With telecom if you want the DSL you have to take the phone contract too.
Thing is that the phone line that connects all Italians was made by the goverment (which use to own telecom Italia) for most companies to build a parallel cable line was too expencive. Fastweb did it and in some big cities with fiber cables.
Anyways people with fastweb uses emule adunanza mod. Everybody else are too layzy to learn to use torrents/usenet or whatever else is out there. Not to mention that the common knowledge of the internet is not as high as in most civilized coutry and last but not the least not many Italians speak English. English language torrents are quite useless over here (not for me I do speak the lingo).

By: Christoph

Christoph — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

we have millions of german torrents here…most people download over here german torrents also if they are fluid in english!