P2P Clients?? which is the daddy?

Rollo Tamasi

Hi guys,

I entered the wonderfull world of file sharing about 6 months ago, in that time i have only used soulseek and more recently bear share. What is everyone else using, eh?

I mainly download dance/house music and so far have heard that soulseek is the best for that kind of tripe, however the figgin service pack 2 thingie on XP is messing up my ability to use soulseek, complete nightmare. What client do you recommend, and i don't want no spyware either!!!

Shiny

DC++ (google)

Once you get used to resuming and finding the best hubs
then you will like it.

It will take you about a week to get used to it.

bounty

dc++ is ok if you have patience

personally i find news groups to be the best, if your lazy like me, and want speed and convenience, but are willing to pay

i use a combination of newsleecher (application), newzbin (message id .nzb files £1 for month) and usenetserver ($3 for 3 days)

TerrorFirmer

Ive been using Win-Mx for years. Very user friendly.

Ares is also pretty good but there is like a crisis with regards to incorrectly named files :mad:

radiospan

Soulseek.

Try to sort out those SP2 problems (switch off the Windows Firewall).

snappieT

Well I don't use P2P, because I'm a good boy who pays all their royalties, but my friend says Bearshare is the best.

hostyle

Tsk, you silly kids. IRC is for the real men. IRC - helping cheapskates download illegal stuff since 1992.

RE*AC*TOR

hostyle wrote:

Tsk, you silly kids. IRC is for the real men. IRC - helping cheapskates download illegal stuff since 1992.

Yes, IRC is no good for newbies though. YOu have to know where to go for the good Fserve stuff. Using something like ircspy or packetnews for xdcc shows you a very limited impression of what's available.

To original poster: Emule is the way to go. It can be slow at times, but you can get anything on it.

clint_silver

Limewire. Hands down. Have never not found a song on it (ahem, to listen to before buying the album). Have tried kazaa, shareaza,bearshare,filedonkey, soulseek and none compare.
Havent tried DC++ though.

Also use "bitlord" with "peer guardian" and use isohunt.com for the torrents (when looking for the video of the popes inauguration).

Whats with the newsgroups? any links?

Willymuncher

Soulseek - best p2p proggie out there for music, its the only one i use now

Khannie

I'm so sick and tired of telling people not to go on about illegal stuff on this board. Next person that explicitely stats that they download stuff illegally (or through reasonable inferance) gets a ban. That's it.There are two instances of people explicitly stating that they download stuff illegally in this thread.

I'm one twitch away from closing this (otherwise very useful) thread. :mad:

dregin

http://www.aresgalaxy.org/
tbh

RE*AC*TOR

http://www.slyck.com/

That's all you need - tells you everything you want to know about nearly every P2P application.

Go nuts.

Infini

Bittorent's the best one.

Turner

Bitlord.

The Biz.

MrVestek

clint_silver wrote:

Limewire. Hands down. Have never not found a song on it (ahem, to listen to before buying the album). Have tried kazaa, shareaza,bearshare,filedonkey, soulseek and none compare.
Havent tried DC++ though.

Also use "bitlord" with "peer guardian" and use isohunt.com for the torrents (when looking for the video of the popes inauguration).

Whats with the newsgroups? any links?

Wow, I'd hate to do a Spyware scan on your system. You do realise, with the exception of perhaps Soulseek, that you have just mentioned about the highest P2P offenders in relation to installing a hell of a load of spyware on computers?

Let us prey for this guy's pc's health. n00b.
For me DC++ works a treat but it can get a bit tiresome trying to find someone with a decent T1 or T3 to get good speeds from. Bittorrent would be my next port of call but not the default client... get something like BitComet.

Limewire indeed... hahaha.

Turner

Yeah id advise downloading Microsoft Antispyware and leave it running constantly.

Lump

Fairly illegal tbh.

John

delly

Brings up that whole can of worms about having some form of discussion about P2P, while not crossing the line.

quarryman

newsgroups piss all over p2p imo.

hi-speed. no uploads. file quality. direct download.

p2p is for cheapskates looking for the most recent Britney track etc

RE*AC*TOR

that's true to a point. newsgroups content retention is where it suffers - yes its great for the latest x, y and z, but for rarer stuff look to emule or bittorrent (if you're lucky).

bounty

RE*AC*TOR wrote:

that's true to a point. newsgroups content retention is where it suffers - yes its great for the latest x, y and z, but for rarer stuff look to emule or bittorrent (if you're lucky).

even with 30 day retention, newsgroup's selection far exceed any p2p

quarryman

RE*AC*TOR wrote:

that's true to a point. newsgroups content retention is where it suffers - yes its great for the latest x, y and z, but for rarer stuff look to emule or bittorrent (if you're lucky).

you're right about that. Retention is a drawback. When i'm looking for something obscure or rare i often have resort to p2p.

For large files, ISOs (linux) etc. newsgroups win out for me.

RE*AC*TOR

not wanting to get a banning here, but it depends on what you want. For example if I want a particular linux iso from 1972 or something - I would be relying on someone to have posted it to usenet in the last 30 days. Or if i want an linux iso album that is a bit obscure.

Haivng extensively used newsgroups, I do love them. The ability to download at 4MB/s is great (note big "B"). But for rarer stuff emule.

Bittorrent has a tendency to group things together. So if i wanted an entire season / series of linux isos then that would probably be the best.

So in summary, yes usenet has a huge selection of stuff. 99.5% of which I have no interest in.

hostyle

quarryman wrote:

newsgroups piss all over p2p imo

Provided you can actually access them. Can name one free irish news server with alt.binary.* on it? Or non-irish for that matter.

Gegerty

RE*AC*TOR wrote:

not wanting to get a banning here, but it depends on what you want. For example if I want a particular linux iso from 1972 or something - I would be relying on someone to have posted it to usenet in the last 30 days. Or if i want an linux iso album that is a bit obscure.

Haivng extensively used newsgroups, I do love them. The ability to download at 4MB/s is great (note big "B"). But for rarer stuff emule.

Bittorrent has a tendency to group things together. So if i wanted an entire season / series of linux isos then that would probably be the best.

So in summary, yes usenet has a huge selection of stuff. 99.5% of which I have no interest in.

Bittorrent groups things together but if you have a decent client you can pick and choose what files you want to download. Use Azureus.

RE*AC*TOR

i know that. I'm merely saying if i was interested in something... for the sake of completion...

bounty

hostyle wrote:

Provided you can actually access them. Can name one free irish news server with alt.binary.* on it? Or non-irish for that matter.

yes, you gotta pay

newshosting, usenetserver and giganews are good

jayneemac

Achilles wrote:

Limewire indeed... hahaha.

Limewire Pro has no spyware!

Win-MX is complete garbage - que up a file & you might get it a month later.

Sort out SP2 & continue using Soulseek

Khannie

RE*AC*TOR wrote:

not wanting to get a banning here, but it depends on what you want. For example if I want a particular linux iso from 1972 or something - I would be relying on someone to have posted it to usenet in the last 30 days. Or if i want an linux iso album that is a bit obscure.

<snip>

So if i wanted an entire season / series of linux isos then that would probably be the best.

OMG.

The only reason you're not getting a banning is that I'm pissin' myself here.


Seriously though...funny or otherwise....next offence (by reasonable inference) gets a banning.

clint_silver

Wow, I'd hate to do a Spyware scan on your system. You do realise, with the exception of perhaps Soulseek, that you have just mentioned about the highest P2P offenders in relation to installing a hell of a load of spyware on computers?

No, I didnt know that. Ive been using both (limewire and bitlord) for quite some time and have no spyware. At all. In fact the last time I did it wasnt from using P2P. Limewire has not had spyware since version 3, its at least over a year since it went to 4, currently at 4.8.1, and even when at version 3 the spyware was easily unbundled if you knew what to do. Did you not know that? n00b.
(cant speak for the other software I mentioned as I stopped using them after I didnt like their performance)

Let us prey for this guy's pc's health. n00b.

You dont need to prey for me at all. My pc is fine because I keep it so. Does one only stop becoming a n00b when they know everything? I didnt know I was in such exalted company.

For me DC++ works a treat but it can get a bit tiresome trying to find someone with a decent T1 or T3 to get good speeds from. Bittorrent would be my next port of call but not the default client... get something like BitComet.

Or indeed another alternative client, bitlord, which I suggested in my first post.

Limewire indeed... hahaha.

I use Limewire because Ive never not been able to find something on it. Ever. Its also now recognised as the most used client on the gnutella network.

However, each to their own and if DC++ rocks your boat then fine but provide some evidence as to why you feel you need to laugh at others.


<have just read Khannies post on banning and have tried to deliberately not mention downloading by inference or otherwise, although its a bit like not mentioning driving when talking about whats your favorite car. Im probably running a fine line but had to defend myself>

Rhyme

I am also a Limewire devotee and before i got the good, albeit ironic, idea to use Limewire to download Limewire Pro, Adaware was always running on my pc to keep it tip-top... and it still is

RE*AC*TOR

Rhyme wrote:

I am also a Limewire devotee and before i got the good, albeit ironic, idea to use Limewire to download Limewire Pro, Adaware was always running on my pc to keep it tip-top... and it still is

ensmallen your sig man.

Rhyme

RE*AC*TOR wrote:

ensmallen your sig man.

Done and dusted... ill make a smaller one later

Khannie

Rhyme wrote:

I am also a Limewire devotee and before i got the good, albeit ironic, idea to use Limewire to download Limewire Pro

Right. THAT'S ******* IT.

One ban coming up.

Edit: I'm also closing the thread, like I said I would. Enough is enough. You are all putting the whole boards.ie community in danger by explicitly discussing illegal activity.