Hermes is a peer to peer file sharing application for downloading all kinds of files: music, movies, software, games and more.

Features: Based on Azureus P2P, Hermes is also a peer to peer (P2P) file sharing application. You can use Hermes to download any kind of files or content that you wish including music (mp3 and otherwise), movies, software, games, pictures and more. Hermes runs on the BitTorrent PRO decentralized peer to peer network.

To basic file sharing it adds some interesting features: something called fast-resume enables quicker resumption of incomplete files (before the application has fully loaded, plus the application loading time is shorter than for say a Gnutella based utility such as LimeWire); automatic port mapping; disk caching which improves performance and reduces resource usage (it has a smaller memory footprint); and previews of incomplete files (this seems to work better than a lot of other clients of this type, especially for incomplete Torrent files which typically don’t work with a lot of torrent clients). It is marketed as being optimized for use on Windows and the low resource usage and small memory foot print as compared to other P2P application seems to confirm this.

Overall: This is a decent peer to peer file sharing tool. Although it runs on the BitTorrent Pro network it doesn’t seem to perform very well for Torrent downloads. To download Torrents the best approach is still to do an Internet search (or use a Torrents website) and then use a “.torrent” file that will then download the file using the standard uTorrent / BitTorrent client. The interface is not very well designed and it is hard to get as much functionality as other typical peer to peer applications.

This may not matter much for some users, but it will turn off users who tend to use P2P file sharing extensively. Faster download claim is not backed up by actual download speeds, but this may be due to the fact that fewer results seem to come up in the first place.

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