P2P File Sharing

[RzrBlade]

Originally posted by lioness22
I use Kazaa Lite, it serves me pretty well. I just download music, not movies.

Soulseek sounds alright, I'm looking for quite a few rare songs that I have had dead ends on with Kazaa, if someone could post a link or something I'd really appreciate it.

Home page is http://www.slsk.org/

But I just checked it and for some reason it is down. I think they are having music companies taunting them close dwon on top of domain name issues

 

[essnickess]

why are my downloads on eMule waiting? is there aproblem or will they eventually start to download? first time use

 

[jim boy]

Originally posted by essnickess
why are my downloads on eMule waiting? is there aproblem or will they eventually start to download? first time use

ditto, seem to be uploading plenty though

 

[sgPanther]

Emule is a patience game.... for the first hour or so, not much will happen.. a bit if a trickle only..

If you double click on the progress bar, it will expand out and show you the queues that you are on and what queue no. you have got. The longer you are on, the lower your q, until you are eventually downloading. It will simultaneously download from many people.

After a few hours, you will get better download speeds. I have to admit though that when i first used emule in XP, i never got decent speeds. Eventually I gave up on XP and used another system i have with win2K and now I get download speeds up to 40KB-60KB/s regularly (depending on how long you download).

There are a heap of forums on emule for your reading if you want to know more. If you haven't got the patience, then one of the other programs is probably better, but emule is the best for people who download serious amounts of data.

One last thing, P2P and emule in particular work by people uploading as well as downloading, so you need to give a bit to get a bit..

 

[Paul0]

BitTorrent is good, but there's no search mechanism.

http://www.filesoup.com/index.html

 

[jim boy]

Has anyone heard if Shareaza is any good? It alledgedly accesses the bitorrent, edonkey2000, Gnutella and it's own G2 network. But is it a dud?

 

[RzrBlade]

Shareaza v0.28 is out, tis good i have heard, havent used it myself, but plan too check it out very soon.

 

[lioness]

Originally posted by RzrBlade
Home page is http://www.slsk.org/

But I just checked it and for some reason it is down. I think they are having music companies taunting them close dwon on top of domain name issues

Damn!!!! Still doesn't seem to be working. Thanks anyways for your help though!!!!!!!!

 

[jim boy]

Originally posted by sgPanther
emule-plus for me.

Got it going now.. averaging about 60kB/s but you have to leave it running for long periods to get it up to that.

It is best for movies, episodes of your favorite shows, software, PC Games, PS2 and XBox Games...

OK I've been runnig emule for about 3 weeks and it is slow, slow, SLOW. Got to about 15-16 Kb one day and that was pretty exciting, but generally it runs at a bout 2-3 Kb, although my up transfer rate is always at the max. And I do let it run all day.

With Kazaa I usually don't have problems hitting 30 Kb.

 

[Mr Eagle]

Originally posted by Jim Boy
OK I've been runnig emule for about 3 weeks and it is slow, slow, SLOW. Got to about 15-16 Kb one day and that was pretty exciting, but generally it runs at a bout 2-3 Kb, although my up transfer rate is always at the max. And I do let it run all day.

With Kazaa I usually don't have problems hitting 30 Kb.

Also depends on the relative availability of the file. The eMule system is deliberately designed to spread the love as widely as possible - whereas Kazaa focuses on uploading to fewer people in a quicker time.

If you're after popular files on eMule, increase the max number of sources you are latching onto at any one time to 1000+. Get enough sources going and you can soon have 10 active downloads of 2-3kb/sec each, making for your ~30kbps.

 

[sebastien]

I used to use iMesh, now Kazaa, Emule and Win MX
IMO Kazaa is always reliable, Emule is just too slow and Win MX is not bad with its speed and many features. Personally I prefer WinMX for music

 

[thewhippersnapper]

I have downloaded a few things on Kazaa that dont work and thats only software. For Music and Video Clips etc I have never had a problem.

eMule is ok but I think Kazaa is probably better.

Kazaa Lite that is.

 

[Smokin_Joe]

i use kazaa and i downloaded a 'speed up file' and i get 180-200 kb/s most the time.

My worst speed is usually 20kb/s

 

[thewhippersnapper]

Originally posted by Smokin_Joe
i use kazaa and i downloaded a 'speed up file' and i get 180-200 kb/s most the time.

My worst speed is usually 20kb/s

Whats this speed File that you downloaded?

 

[jim boy]

Originally posted by BomberAUS
Whats this speed File that you downloaded?

Sounds like a speed multiplyer, doubt it does anything more than move the decimal point on the speed display.

 

[Former]

On the weekend I was asked to get some P2P software for a Mac. Unfortunately every site that I visited that seemed to have Mac P2P software came up as a string of random characters on IE5 for Mac.

Any ideas?

 

[jim boy]

Originally posted by Groves
On the weekend I was asked to get some P2P software for a Mac. Unfortunately every site that I visited that seemed to have Mac P2P software came up as a string of random characters on IE5 for Mac.

Any ideas?

Buy a PC






or if that is a totally stoopid suggestion, try using safari or opera instead and have a look at http://www.mac-p2p.com/