Xunlei

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Thunder

Developed by	Thunder Networking Technologies (a.k.a. Xunlei Networking Technologies)
Latest release	5.8.6.600 / 2008-09-23
OS	Microsoft Windows
Available in	Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese
Type	Peer-to-peer file sharing
License	Adware
Website	Xunlei website

Xunlei or Thunder (Chinese: 迅雷; pinyin: Xùnléi; literally "Thunderbolt")^[1] is a popular Chinese download manager and file sharing client that supports BitTorrent, eDonkey, Kad, and FTP. It is mainly used in the Mainland China and the software is only available in Chinese, although recently an English translation has been released. The client is developed by Thunder Networking Technologies, a Shenzhen startup formerly known as Sandai Technologies (三代科技).

They also offer download accelerating services which have been downloaded and installed by over 80 million users. Xunlei's websites attract over fifty million hits per day^[2].

Operation Mechanism

Xunlei accelerates downloads by accessing its proprietary P2P network in addition to the given HTTP download. By default it scans the user's computer and automatically shares all files across the Xunlei network, and often exhausts the user's upload bandwidth as it does not provide a real upload speed limiter. The user has no means of limiting what to be shared or not to be shared.^[3]

Google Investment

On January 5, 2007, Google acquired a 4% stake for a reported $5 million in the company that developed Xunlei, with hopes of expanding Google's market base in China. Contrary to rumours earlier in the year, Google did not purchase a majority stake in the Chinese company.

References

External links

• Xunlei website
• Xunlei download
• Google to invest in Chinese video website - Bloomberg - brief report on the Google investment
• How to Block Xunlei - IMFirewall - information of ports used by Xunlei
• English language pack for the Xunlei Client