Audiogalaxy Satellite

***BETA*** VERSION 0.608

July 26, 2001

http://www.audiogalaxy.com

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Preface about programs possibly installed along with Audiogalaxy Satellite (webHancer, Gator, eAccelerator):

Audiogalaxy is here to help you explore music. Our focus is to make your time at

Audiogalaxy.com an enjoyable experience. As everyone is aware the ad market for websites

is down. We used to stay in business by deriving 100% of our revenue from this, but this

is no longer possible. We were faced with a choice - close Audiogalaxy, charge users,

deploy pop-up ads, or explorer other revenue generating options. We believe we have

found a compromise by including other company's software in the Audiogalaxy Satellite

bundle. When you install and run these programs Audiogalaxy receives revenue which

allows us to grow Audiogalaxy and maintain our current server farm.

We make sure that the programs we offer you during the Audiogalaxy install are worth your

time and either enhance your WWW experience or save you money at e-commerce sites. We

sincerely hope you install and support these companies as they are also helping to

support Audiogalaxy.

Quick break down of the install process:

*Gator.com installation program is installed if you choose it (opt-out). It is never

fully installed by Audiogalaxy, but slowly downloads the contents of the real

Gator.com install over a period of time so your internet connection will not be

bogged down. After the installation is downloaded from gator.com you are given

a choice if you wish to proceed with the installation.

*eAccelerator - you are given a Yes / No choice during installation. We highly recommend

eAccelerator as it will speed up your browsing of Audiogalaxy.com and other internet

websites by employing advanced caching techniques

*onflow - www.onflow.com -> media player for your web browser

No longer bundled

*webHancer is installed on everyone's machine - it can be uninstalled by going to

control-panel add/remove programs (webHancer reports network latency about

websites you visit - they throw away your IP address BTW so its anonymous)

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We HIGHLY recommend that if you wish to remove everything from you system (including

Audiogalaxy Satellite) that you use the Add/Remove feature in control-panel. Using

programs like AdWare by Lavasoft have been know to crash systems because they improperly

remove programs.

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Notes:

* We have released the user interface portion (ui.dll) via the GNU Public License.

If you have already designed a user interface before for the agent there will not be many

changes. It will also be easier to control events and misc other material. It is available at

http://www.audiogalaxy.com/downloads/AGSatellite-Win32UI-source.zip

* You might noticed something like this when you type netstat:

TCP you:2892 localhost:50000 ESTABLISHED

TCP you:50000 localhost:2892 ESTABLISHED

This is how AGSatellite.exe and UI.dll communicate (wait for release of source code to see more). This was done

to make it cross platform between Win32 and Linux.

* This linux version does not currently support a GUI, but one can easily be constructed. If there

is interested please post messages on the discussion board so that we can release a GUI ready linux

version.

Why use this?

Features:

1. Audiogalaxy servers automatically pick the closest non-busy person that has the file you want to minimize

traffic and bandwidth abuse. Example: if your neighbor across the hall in your dorm has the file you want,

you will get it from him/her at a very high speed.

2. True web-based system allows you to download files to your machine even if you are not physically

there. ie: If you are at work and want to download files to your home, just jump on the web at work and login

with your home Satellite account.

3. Unique transaction based queuing system with auto-resume - once you select a file to download from

somebody you are told the status of it: Looking for a match, All matches are busy, or No active matches.

If somebody logs who has a file that you wanted and is in the "no active matches" state you will automatically

start getting the file. NO MORE 95% downloaded files due to nifty auto-resume!!!

4. This system is designed to handle millions of files with more than 1,000,000 people online at once

5. The satellite has been re-written so that