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Must stay up all night and develop first DataChannel based P2P BitTorrent style file sharing implementation tonight..

hazelcough 14y ago
Make haste! People on Canary had a head start :P. Also note that currently DataChannels do not support reliable transfer and have a small MTU, so sending enormous files does not yet work. With PeerJS you can send smaller files, but larger ones will take an unreasonable amount of time.
- dbaupp 14y ago
  And it's been in Firefox for a while too. (Nightly only, maybe?)
  - dveditz 14y ago
    It is currently enabled in nightly (Fx22) and Aurora (fx21). No promises it won't get turned off in Fx21 before ship but that appears to be the current target release.
- ninjay 14y ago
  I always thought it would be cool to do distributed cache in browsers with this technology. It would be like an organic CDN, automatically making the internet faster.
  - DanielRapp 14y ago
    That's precisely what I'm building https://github.com/DanielRapp/peerbalanced https://github.com/DanielRapp/peerbalanced ;)
  - JulianMorrison 14y ago
    Cache poisoning with spam in 3, 2, 1...
  - jychang 14y ago
    Might want to check this out: https://github.com/PeerKit/peercdn https://github.com/PeerKit/peercdn It's written with PeerJS, by one of the other creators of PeerJS, same as OP.
    - DanielRapp 14y ago
      Looks neat, do you know if they're planning on open sourcing the server implementation as well?
- erbbysam 14y ago
  There is a hack to get around this (in Chrome) by increasing the SDP channels transfer rate (I think), still doesn't solve the MTU/reliable issue though. I originally found it via ShareFest - https://github.com/Peer5/ShareFest/issues/10 https://github.com/Peer5/ShareFest/issues/10 & have it integrated (in library form) here - https://github.com/erbbysam/webRTC-data.io https://github.com/erbbysam/webRTC-data.io I haven't tested this yet on Chrome Stable though.
mtgx 14y ago
I was surprised Bittorent was working on a plugin for the browsers, instead of using this. Same for their live streaming tech. It would be much better if you didn't need extra software/plugins to install to use it.
rohansingh 14y ago
While it's not BitTorrent, I have a simple file sharing implementation and slides about data channels here: http://rohanradio.com/rtc-p2p http://rohanradio.com/rtc-p2p
hacliff 14y ago
Feel free to fork mine: https://github.com/hcliff/ampere https://github.com/hcliff/ampere It's the only one I've seen that abides to the bittorrent spec (where possible). BEP 9 and 10 support incoming. (Demo's broken, need to push a fix :()
samg 14y ago
check out http://peercdn.com http://peercdn.com

Make haste! People on Canary had a head start :P. Also note that currently DataChannels do not support reliable transfer and have a small MTU, so sending enormous files does not yet work. With PeerJS you can send smaller files, but larger ones will take an unreasonable amount of time.

dbaupp 14y ago
And it's been in Firefox for a while too. (Nightly only, maybe?)
- dveditz 14y ago
  It is currently enabled in nightly (Fx22) and Aurora (fx21). No promises it won't get turned off in Fx21 before ship but that appears to be the current target release.
ninjay 14y ago
I always thought it would be cool to do distributed cache in browsers with this technology. It would be like an organic CDN, automatically making the internet faster.
- DanielRapp 14y ago
  That's precisely what I'm building https://github.com/DanielRapp/peerbalanced https://github.com/DanielRapp/peerbalanced ;)
- JulianMorrison 14y ago
  Cache poisoning with spam in 3, 2, 1...
- jychang 14y ago
  Might want to check this out: https://github.com/PeerKit/peercdn https://github.com/PeerKit/peercdn It's written with PeerJS, by one of the other creators of PeerJS, same as OP.
  - DanielRapp 14y ago
    Looks neat, do you know if they're planning on open sourcing the server implementation as well?
erbbysam 14y ago
There is a hack to get around this (in Chrome) by increasing the SDP channels transfer rate (I think), still doesn't solve the MTU/reliable issue though. I originally found it via ShareFest - https://github.com/Peer5/ShareFest/issues/10 https://github.com/Peer5/ShareFest/issues/10 & have it integrated (in library form) here - https://github.com/erbbysam/webRTC-data.io https://github.com/erbbysam/webRTC-data.io I haven't tested this yet on Chrome Stable though.

mtgx 14y ago

I was surprised Bittorent was working on a plugin for the browsers, instead of using this. Same for their live streaming tech. It would be much better if you didn't need extra software/plugins to install to use it.

rohansingh 14y ago

While it's not BitTorrent, I have a simple file sharing implementation and slides about data channels here: http://rohanradio.com/rtc-p2p http://rohanradio.com/rtc-p2p

hacliff 14y ago

Feel free to fork mine: https://github.com/hcliff/ampere https://github.com/hcliff/ampere It's the only one I've seen that abides to the bittorrent spec (where possible). BEP 9 and 10 support incoming. (Demo's broken, need to push a fix :()

samg 14y ago

check out http://peercdn.com http://peercdn.com