10 Top Peer to Peer P2P Applications for Sharing Files in the Internet

Posted by Ali Qayyum Saturday, July 25, 2009

10 Top Peer to Peer P2P Applications for Sharing Files in the Internet

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A peer-to-peer distributed network architecture is composed of participants that make a portion of their resources (such as processing power, disk storage, and network bandwidth) available directly to their peers without intermediary network hosts or servers.[1] Peers are both suppliers and consumers of resources, in contrast to the traditional client-server model where only servers supply, and clients consume.

Peer-to-peer was popularized by file sharing systems like Napster. Peer-to-peer file sharing networks have inspired new structures and philosophies in other areas of human interaction. In such social contexts, peer-to-peer as a meme refers to the egalitarian social networking that is currently emerging throughout society, enabled by Internet technologies in general.[via]

After Searching the Safe and 10 top sharing software for you.In this category, we review the Internet's best free P2P file sharing programs. If you happen to stumble across an outdated link, we'd very much appreciate it if you could report it.

One of the best and most popular file distribution applications utilising the peer-to-peer environment. To access software, games, music, films and videos on the BitTorrent network, you'll need to download the BitTorrent client, which is available in over 20 languages. Once installed, you'll be able to harness a community of over 70 million users and generate incredibly quick downloads of any available files.

Download BitTorrent

Ares is one of my favorite p2p program. Its completely free from viruses, spywares and adwares. I haven’t got any infected files or corrupted installer. Ares List is used more then normal Ares client because of its low size, speed and performance. Supported Operating system: Windows XP, Vista

Download Ares for Windows

BearShare's free edition is a useful and feature-rich P2P file sharing application, most commonly used to share audio sound files (MP3s, WAVs, etc.) BearShare uses the Gnutella client protocol and is connected to a central server that controls connections to the BearShare network. This program also integrates an instant messenger, so you can chat to other users on the network who are sharing files.

Download BearShare

iMesh another popular and spyware, adware free p2p file sharing with application multi language support. iMesh claims to have over 15 million FREE songs & videos Over 2 million original high quality songs licensed from the record labels.

Supported Operating System: Windows XP, Vista
Download iMesh Client for Windows

eMule is one of the biggest and most reliable peer-to-peer file sharing clients around the world thanks to its open source support and based on edonkey2000 client.eMule is free from spyware, adware and its completely free. eMule is also available in portable form to run from your USB derive

Supported Operating System: Windows XP, Vista

Download eMule Client

This was one of early p2p program when p2p was still new concept. It supports wide variety of networks like Gnutella, Gnutella2, EDonkey Network, BitTorrent, FTP and HTTP network protocols and which can handle magnet links, ed2k links, Piolet links, and the now deprecated Gnutella links.

Shareza has billions of users and uncountable numbers of files shared across shareaza network

Supported Operating System: Windows XP, Vista

Download Shareaza Client

This free and popular P2P file sharing program is one of the best we've seen with its simple setup process and number of features. Using LimeWire, you can search public folders for MP3s, documents, software, videos and more. Some of the features offered here include: unlimited simultaneous searches, "swarm downloads" from multiple hosts, family filters, integrated chat and advanced search options (e.g. by artist, title or genre).

Although LimeWire is free from spyware, adware and other bundled software, we still recommend caution with programs of this nature since publicly "shared" files are not guaranteed to be safe. You should ensure your computer has adequate anti-virus protection before attempting to download files from a P2P network.

Download LimeWire

Soluseek central server type of P2P file sharing application. Soluseek is good old p2p file sharing program best of sharing music files. i haven’t tried soluseek ever but have heard that soluseek is best of music, audio, Mp3 files download.

Supported Operating system: Windows XP, Vista

Download Souleseek Client

KCeasy is client based on giFT peer to peer file sharing protocol. This protocol improves the overall usability of peer to peer network, ability to downloads single file from multiple peers simultaneously.KCeasy supports multiple networks for file sharing.

Supported Operating System: Windows XP, Vista

Download KCeasy

uTorrent is lightweight efficient bittorrent client with lot many features like RSS downloader, Multiple simultaneous downloads downloading, Bandwidth configuration and IPv6 support.

Supported Operating System: Windows XP, Vista, 98, NT

Download uTorrent Client

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