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Subject: Re: 6men egtb which server?

Author: Christos Gitsis

Date: 21:26:11 02/07/06

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On February 07, 2006 at 22:15:17, Kirill Kryukov wrote:

>Hi Josh,
>
>You can connect to any server, it does not matter much. The aMule client will
>use all servers you have in list, when it will try to find files.
>
>This is how eD2K network works - there are many servers, and everyone is
>connected to just one server. Servers collect information about the files each
>person shares (even partially). When someone searches the network for particular
>file, the eD2K network client (aMule in your case) will ask all servers one by
>one, if they have anyone sharing that file. After that the client will try to
>connect to those peers directly, perhaps enter the queue and wait for some
>while, and finally will be able to download some parts of a file.
>
>Best,
>Kirill

I would like to add that this is true if you select to do a "global search". If
you do a "local search" (which is the default in aMule), then only the server
you are connected to will be searched for files.

Regards,
Christos.





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