Reviewer, 2008-10-30 08:24:00

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

Pros: Based on Azureus P2P, Artemis P2P is also a peer to peer (P2P) file sharing application. You can use Artemis to download any kind of files or content that you wish including music (mp3 and otherwise), movies, software, games, pictures and more. Artemis P2P 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 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 LimeWire). It is billed to be optimized for Windows and the smaller (as compared to other P2P applications) memory and CPU usage certainly seems to indicate that this is true.

Cons: 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 a uTorrent or other torrent 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 to 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.

Overall: At least 3 stars. 4 stars possible. Works fairly well, but there are some concerns, not least the poor interface. There are definitely better P2P applications out there.