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NokiaDude

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I'm getting tired of Kazaa's slow downloads and junk files. Anyone care to share their favorite P2P program?
 
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Dedpuhl

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I rarely have problems with Kazaa.

If I begin to have problems, I'll probably spend my time in newsgroups and IRC.
 
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ProviaFan

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Originally posted by: GTaudiophile
Anyone use Freenet?
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Not here. It was too hard to use, extremely slow, and had few files back in the day when I tried it. I prefer eMule (based on the edonkey2000 network) for my legal downloads (not warez, not music, not movies, so don't ask... ;)).
 
Kadarin

Kadarin

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Nov 23, 2001
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Currently playing around with Overnet/Edonkey/mldonkey. In Windows 2000, Overnet or Edonkey crashes my system pretty regularly every couple of hours. In Linux, mldonkey is stable, but gets a lot of "your client is out of date and exhibits bad network behavior" messages, and downloads and searches are limited. Gentoo has a masked update in portage, but it's not compiling for me. I haven't tried the official Linux Overnet client yet.
 
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ProviaFan

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Originally posted by: Astaroth33
Currently playing around with Overnet/Edonkey/mldonkey. In Windows 2000, Overnet or Edonkey crashes my system pretty regularly every couple of hours. In Linux, mldonkey is stable, but gets a lot of "your client is out of date and exhibits bad network behavior" messages, and downloads and searches are limited. Gentoo has a masked update in portage, but it's not compiling for me. I haven't tried the official Linux Overnet client yet.
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You should really try Emule (but only if you're comfortable with fetching a custom server.met). Sometimes a relatively small file (100MB) can take days to download, but the nice thing about Emule is that you can set up ten or more files, and they will all download, slowly but surely. I've never had any problems with the stability of the Emule client.
 
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bandana163

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To share files with your close friends only, I'd recommend Emule (fast when someone uploads only to you, plus you can set private uploads) or DC (or LAN...). Share only the files you want to upload, or set their priority to max and let your friends enjoy the fast search mechanism of the network to find your files. Kazaa takes up to an hour or more to search the entire network sometimes, plus, Kazaa's hashing mechanism is pretty messed up, something goes wrong and probably you have an invalid file. Emule has very good hashsets and its intelliigent corruption handling saves helps, too. In emule, you can even copy your file's hashset to clipboard and send it to your friend, so no search is necessary. In DC, there is nearly no need for search at all because of few ppl/hub and personal lists of files.

Kazaa has a relatively slow search mechanism and there are tons of useless junk shared. Misnamed files, viruses to infect dumb users and such that hinder the search speeds.
Bittorrent is becoming more and more popular, for example 3D Gamers uses it as an alternative method to download files from them. Gamershell also started a such service not long ago.

Shareaza would be very good, but it is still not 100% complete. Merging the Donkey, G1, G2, BT and an easy to use interface would be really nice.
 
silverpig

silverpig

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Originally posted by: Astaroth33
Currently playing around with Overnet/Edonkey/mldonkey. In Windows 2000, Overnet or Edonkey crashes my system pretty regularly every couple of hours. In Linux, mldonkey is stable, but gets a lot of "your client is out of date and exhibits bad network behavior" messages, and downloads and searches are limited. Gentoo has a masked update in portage, but it's not compiling for me. I haven't tried the official Linux Overnet client yet.
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I did a format, installed overnet to try it, and then rebooted. I came back up and spybot found 15 spyware proggies, and norton av was flipping out. I didn't even get a chance to download anything with overnet. I deleted it immediately, but over the course of the next 2 weeks everything just stopped working. DX, then directsound... then half of my opengl games just stopped working.... viruses popped up here and there.

Reformatted again finally, didn't install overnet, and everything is solid and stable.
 
Kadarin

Kadarin

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Nov 23, 2001
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Originally posted by: silverpig
Originally posted by: Astaroth33
Currently playing around with Overnet/Edonkey/mldonkey. In Windows 2000, Overnet or Edonkey crashes my system pretty regularly every couple of hours. In Linux, mldonkey is stable, but gets a lot of "your client is out of date and exhibits bad network behavior" messages, and downloads and searches are limited. Gentoo has a masked update in portage, but it's not compiling for me. I haven't tried the official Linux Overnet client yet.
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I did a format, installed overnet to try it, and then rebooted. I came back up and spybot found 15 spyware proggies, and norton av was flipping out. I didn't even get a chance to download anything with overnet. I deleted it immediately, but over the course of the next 2 weeks everything just stopped working. DX, then directsound... then half of my opengl games just stopped working.... viruses popped up here and there.

Reformatted again finally, didn't install overnet, and everything is solid and stable.
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When I tested it with Ad-Aware 6 and the latest reflist file, no spyware gets installed, provided you uncheck the options for it in the Overnet install in the first place.

I'll have to look at Spybot and see if it comes up with anything.
 
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