the best P2P programs

irishguy

what are the best P2P file sharing programs???personaly i use kazaa but i want to try a few more so i can find some rare tunes

zAbbo

www.winmx.com, kazaa is bloatware and its ghey - fact

Kali

Soulseek isn't too bad depending on what kind of music you're into. Great for indie, half-decent for hip-hop.. really have to get into the respective channels to find the hard to get stuff though.

daveirl

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l3rian

kazaa is bad program which puts gator spyware on your pc

my personal favourite - www.neo-modus.com
- apparently there is a petabyte of data available
- no spyware
- you can browse through anyones files they are sharing - can be up to 120gb
- One disadvantage is that some hubs require you to share a lot, over 20gb for some, but if you share a dvd disk thats your first 4gb

irishguy

i find Kazaa is the best for out right speed as i have a 512K connection i can download off up to 10 ppl which gives me very good speeds also nearly everything is avalible on kazaa but u have to know the the ringt name or code or else its very hard to find.Direct connect is very good for browsing if you dont know what you want as you can look at the files a person shares ,it can be very slow but alot of ppl are online 24/7.I was just realy looking for a program to get music mainly new release dance/trance ect i know the names and mixs of the stuff i want its just so hard 2 find on kazaa,its mainly just mainstream and pop music.

STaN

kazaa media desktop is now at v2.0

www.kazaa.com

sceptre

Overnet can be good at times. Don't know if it's a Kazaa clone or not.

byte

Just got Netsystem satellite internet working last saturday but alas, they have somehow throttled Kazaa and other P2P applications which was the whole point of higher speed internet. Anyone know of P2P app that works with Netsystem?

IRC downloads seems to be throttled too.

Raskolnikov

Originally posted by bazH
www.winmx.com, kazaa is bloatware and its ghey - fact

Winmx is pretty good, although i hate the way that almost everything is queued. Then again KaZaA is the same too

trunks

I was working on Gnutella when I was in collage , and I did allot of research of the diffented P2P networks, basically what it boils down to is you need to be searching about 20,000 clients too get any good search results.

if the Gnutella network was set up properly each client would be connected to at most 7 other client and the TTL of the search packet was 7 hops that meant the relative size of the network was 7pow7 = 5764801 that's a good max size

but most Gnutella clients connect to only one or two other client
which meant it would string out, and the relive size of the network would be allot smaller,

like it or not to get good file sharing you need a large centeraised server

I know i sound realy boring but it might give insight

DiscoStu

kazaa lite great for music
edonkey2000 is only really viable if you have broadband because the connect and waiting times are huge
dc++ is only for the l33t 100gb+ divx whores
irc if you know where to look is pretty good to.

Kali

Installed winmx the other day for the first time in about 18 months or so.. my god its absolutely terrible for music.
Stay away. If you want dodgy movies or something fine but for hard to get music its woeful... I didn't get one single result from about ten searchs on the trot.

oneweb

Gnucleus
It's based on the Gnutella protocol. I like it
Healthy results if you leave it connected over time.

I'm not saying it's perfect!

rob1891

trunks, your research parallels my experience of gnutella. I only every seem to find good sources for downloading when I'm using a very fat connection, connecting to maybe 15-20 other clients and wasting about 100KB/sec on that general network traffic. (Actually when I had that connection I used to tell it to connect to ~30 clients/200KB of traffic, do my searching and then throttle back to 10-15 once I'd found some hosts to download from.)

I've also read how wasteful the gnutella network is, part of its reliability is based on the fact that it grows randomly, taking out nodes has little effect on it (I guess this has changed somewhat with supernodes). But this means the connections you make aren't necessarily close to you geographically or in terms of the network structure. So, when downloading you could be crossing many networks and national boundaries, which cost your isp significantly more than say sharing with another user on the same isp or same country. One of the reasons they don't like it so much!

.... anyway .....

Anyone got good clients for *nix? Something that doesn't need a whole lot of resources, I'm thinking of silencing my old 100Mhz pentium and letting it download nighttimes. I've used commandline apps like mutella and gnut on the fat connections above, but neither of them have seen any development for some time, so no multithreaded downloads & other handy stuff. I can't imagine they would be so reliable on dialup.

I see kazaa does linux, can they put adware on a linux box!! Is it a killer on the cpu? Are there any commandline clients still being developed and maintained?

rob

[edit]perhaps kazaa used to do linux, it's not mentioned on their website anymore anyway ... oops[/edit]

KdjaCL

DC for general stuff.
Good as hubs are like communities well the one hub i use is.

Emule (variation of edonkey)
for the umm umm well you know whats that for DSL a must tho.
Full albums im lazy like that ,one file one dload it will take as long as it taks attitude is needed.

Kazaa lite
For rare music tracks.


Winmx is terrible.
Never tried gnutella or any other psp program
Kdja

l3rian

thanks Muirthile
dc++ is a lot better than direct connect, multi hub connections and searchs, better layout no adds and i like the way you can right click and close windows, also dc++ is 10 times smaller file than direct connect

you know the way napster and others died via lawyers, is it possible that p2p programs in general could be banned?

Kali

you know the way napster and others died via lawyers, is it possible that p2p programs in general could be banned?

I heard an interesting story this morning that someone (in dublin) had been threatened with legal action by NTL over sharing a file named lord_of_the_rings.avi ..
Apparently NTL had been contacted by AOL/Time Warner.

So I don't think it's a case of them targetting the software makers but rather the actual users now.. presumably they have the odd bot or two on the more popular filesharing networks looking for copyrighted material and noting ip addresses in the process.

rob1891

I've read that the DSL types in the states get these letters quite a bit. It's usually the ISP caving to RIAA (or whatever) and their demands for a customers details (they would provide assigned IPs & login times etc). One wonders about data protection and the courts .... but then again ISPs aren't particularly fond bandwidth hogging p2p users either so why put up a fight on their behalf.

Usually they get the letter from ISP or RIAA or whatever and you decide to leave the bastards for giving out personal information without a court order (or just cause they're fvckkers for ratting you out) and move on to a more liberal, freethinking, lefty ISP that doesn't mind you stealing from the rich and giving to the ... well, yourself, you middle class little brat! AND you're too cheap to actually make a stand and take it to court, feckkers sicken me :P

Freenet is what some have started using, developed by an Irishman! It's quite anonymous, or something ... I can't remember, have a gander at the google thing ....

"Freenet is free software designed to ensure true freedom of communication over the Internet. It allows anybody to publish and read information with complete anonymity. Nobody controls Freenet, not even its creators, meaning that the system is not vulnerable to manipulation or shutdown."

I logged on to it a year ago perhaps, found books and political essays a few mp3s (classical stuff as I recall) and some more disturbingly named files such as rape0001.jpg etc .... To me it looked like the people who were using it at the time were either freedom of speech/information activists and other such enlightened individuals or sick bastards. Hear no evil see no evil, I didn't download anything, however their faq mentions child pornography:

http://freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/twiki/view/Main/FAQ#ControversialA)

They take freedom of speech very seriously. hmm, I guess everyone should, though we don't usually have to consider helping build a medium for paedophiles and terrorists to operate and communicate in ...

Haven't been back there since. But I will check to see how it's grown when I get the chance. It's aimed at people who can provide an always on connection and even diskspace to cache files, so whatever condition it's in, I don't think we shall be using it for a while.

rob

KdjaCL

Just to add most ISPs in US block the ports used by Emule /Edonkey (4661 i think) so users cant use them.

If there was amajor crackdown on P2p ,DC will win in the end as it can change ports and because a user is hosting the actual server


Kdja

Squall

Ive always been partial to grokster meself. Usually has what im looking for.

www.grokster.com

ringzer

I find DC++ excellent for downloading music. I've downloaded so much music recently, couple of gigs in about a week. Its cool that you can download whole directories and albums because with Kazza lite you have to download individual files.

But Kazza is very good for divx/xvid movies and software because if its a popular file, then there are multiple people sharing it with you which means faster downloads.

I'm using cable internet while I'm over here in NY doing an internsthip and since I got it about 2 weeks ago, I reckon I've downloaded about 30GB of music, movies and software. Its great. I'm gonna be soo annoyed when I get back to the land of dial up in Ireland though

Ciaran

DMT

Dragging up old posts makes baby Jesus cry...

po0k

Bit-Torrent

Zascar

Shareaza - Free, Open Source, No Adware/Spywear, searches all the main networks. It's the best one I have used...

edit: only saw that Dragginp up old posts card now... sorry

youcancallmeal

DC++ is still the best way to go.
Takes a while to get the hang of but once you do you'll never use any spyware riddled crap again

edit: i like old posts

pickarooney

let it go for another year and drag it up again
can a thread get a a DNR notice?

shelsfan

Bearshare is another good one.

sci0x

I use Warez P2P. Find it excellent.

Willymuncher

Soulseek for music, and BitTorrent

melekalikimaka

emule...so long as your willing to leave your pc on for a few weeks at a time and in no rush ya get anything...eventually. Audiogalaxy ofcourse was the best ever for music

Khannie

sci0x wrote:

I use Warez P2P. Find it excellent.

My mate installed that and it absolutely ruined his computer with spyware.

I broke my bollix laughing at him. He downloaded a program called "warez" from "warez.com" and expected his computer to be ok afterwards. HAHAHAHAHA. Brilliant.

sciox....you had any spyware problems?

Personally, I wouldn't feel safe typing anything after installing that software. Especially 16 digits in a row if you catch my drift.

Wigertoods

Bittorrent and emule (slow but reliable)
imho

zep

Try Limewire
Seems to be quite good.

Zep

oneweb

Zascar wrote:

Shareaza - Free, Open Source, No Adware/Spywear, searches all the main networks. It's the best one I have used...

I came across that recently and it's great! Open source too (Notice the extra A - ShareAza)
Was using gnucleus before that which, tbh, pales in comparison.

Gone West

kdjak: most Us isps don not block any ports at all. You must be mixing it up with universities and schools blocking ports through their router. Ive had no trouble with any ISP ive used here.

I use irc, because I download movies, usually. Most nights I leave it on, and I can max out my connection (600Kilobytes/sec) *thats right bytes, not bits!!*

Khannie

FuzzyLogic wrote:

my connection (600Kilobytes/sec) *thats right bytes, not bits!!*

*cries*

It's just so beautiful.

Show em my motto

(sprite ad with the dispenser in yer mans gaf)

gurramok

Zascar wrote:

Shareaza - Free, Open Source, No Adware/Spywear, searches all the main networks. It's the best one I have used...

Yep, its connected to the eDonkey network like emule which i use constantly.
If I want something fast, i use either IRC or BT

ZENER

Limewire's great on the Mac.

ZEN