The beauty of emule low id in throttled p2p realm?
Mar 22nd, 2009 by fairx
I used to write in lowyat about the usage of low id trick to get many Asian (or any other popular) movies using emule. I think it was 1-2 year ago.
In the old days before p2p become mainstream, which later throttled heavily by ISP, emule is the best network to grab anything that already expired on bittorrent, be it no longer available or no longer seeded. I also called ed2k network as “poor man’s binaries”. It practically share everything; from popular movies to rare applications to games.
However, there is a catch; you need to have and maintain High ID to be allowed to have descent download speed. Download might took days or weeks before completion, but once you maintain our sharing & upload then things start to get interesting. Download speed increasing, completion gets better and you start addicted to it.
Yet emule is still considered as an elite p2p app that only few could tolerate (at least here in Malaysia).
However, since p2p become heavy burden to ISP thanks(?) to global bittorrent boom, packet inspection & bandwith shaping were being introduced to cater the problem (simple greedy solutions instead of upgrading their network).
and suddenly emule is dead
Over the years, emule and ed2k network are still very tempting with their vast collection of asian dvd-rips. I’ve tried many emule variation that offer tweaks and minor upgrade that tackle leeching issue but none of these fix the throttle problem. The low download speed is still the major problem. The introduction of obfuscation feature are highly welcomed and praised but still failed to penetrate the heavy throttling by ISP.
Then came tweaked emule from China called EasyMule that add something clever (I don’t really know the complexities of the function, how they’e embedded or the origin of the tweaks though..). It enables Low ID users behind firewall or closed port to communicate with each other directly allowing them to transfer files.
The beauty of this emule Low ID transfers are the fact that, somehow, they’re immune to ISP throttle or shaping.
Hence the answer to slow downloads are by blocking the connection ports intentionally, instead of opening them as suggested. Meaning, Low ID’s are better in this case.
The method are not quite foolproof though, since them amount of Easymule users are mainly from asian countries. You need the same client (at least in my knowledge) to perform the miracle of low id trasfer.
However, if you only interested in the large amount asian dvd-rips shared amongs easymule users, then the late adoption from popular clients might not be the issue.
Is this a call for standard feature all emule clients? You bet.
get Easymule here: http://www.easymule.com/en-us/
