i2hub

i2hub offers university and college students with tools that enable them to share files.

i2hub was a peer-to-peer file sharing service and program designed and intended primarily for use by university and college students. The program was created by Wayne Chang, a student at University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Wayne Chang had previously worked at the original Napster while attending high school in Haverhill, Massachusetts. The main advantage of i2hub was its utilization of Internet2, which was a special network that connected universities around the world. It allows for data transfer rates much faster than typical Internet connections. Because of this, download speeds through i2hub were usually much faster than through other peer-to-peer networks. The service gained traction quickly.