How About a Web-Based Peer-To-Peer File Sharing Service?

Until now, the peer-to-peer file sharing technologies were based on downloadable technologies which were supposed to be installed on users' computers in order to be accessed by the consumers. But from now on, a brand new project modifies the concept of the file-sharing market. Using PipeBytes, you can send files to any other Internet user, straight from your browser, without installing software. And all of these for free! Although it's still a beta service, the technology works pretty fine with some exceptions but we'll talk about them later.

Here's how it works: user number one, a.k.a. the sender, goes to PipeBytes and, using the browser button to select a file, generates a random link provided by the service. The link must be then entered by user number two, a.k.a. the receiver, in the browser address bar and he must choose a location on his computer to start the download. After the connection is established, the download is started with no additional operations.

Please note that PipeBytes doesn't store any of your files because it only establishes the connection between two users without requiring the sender to upload the files on its servers. Although the download speed was supposed to depend on the connection of the two users, it seems like the service somehow influences it (this is one of the exceptions I was talking about). I tested the service with one of my colleagues and it worked pretty slowly for a peer-to-peer technology. So let's hope improved download speed will come with the final version of the product.

If you still don't get it, you're able to send any file you want without any limitation. No size limitation, no file sharing requirements, no nothing. Just send the file to your friends.

Now, if there's anything else that I want to see in PipeBytes, it's only the resume downloads function (this is another exception). Imagine that while sending a large file, one of the computer reboots or its Internet connection is turned off. There's no resume option so all you can do is restart the download.