What are your P2P favorites?

[naren]

OK P2P freaks, I know your out there! Lets here your thoughts.

I have had a personal saga of disappointment and frustration with the various P2P clients and protocols available on Mac OS and I'm wondering what each of your experiences and preferences are? I toyed with Limewire but it bugged the heck out of me. I didn't get anywhere with Carracho. I had some good experiences with Acquisition but left it for giFT and Poisoned, which I swiftly discarded for XFactor, which has been my favorite for some time.
I am toying with the mldonkey protocol right now, trying to find the best client for the protocol, eDonkey2000 looks promising but is too much of a drag on my system and caused some strange app and system behavior, not to mention bringing my network to it's knees. Right now I think mlMac is one of the best but it needs an update.

What are your thoughts? :smokey:

[onlyafterdark]

I have been using Poisoned exclusivly for a while now since Im too lazy to find a better one. Maybe Ill try this XFactor and see how it is.

[Zodiac]

I've used them all, but aquisition is the favorite now.

[wyvern]

BitTorrent (using Azureus).

[InactionMan]

I still think Acquisition is the best. I only use BitTorrent occasionally.

[Brad]

You forgot an option. None. I'm adding it.

[ast3r3x]

I used to use poisoned exsclusively until a month or so ago I tried the newest version of acquisition. Needless to say, acquisition has surpassed poisoned. I seem to get more relaiable downloads, and the download faster. Plus the way they organize searches is wonderful.

Of course I also ahve BitTorrent (which I love so dearly) but it does tend to crash my computer...as in freeze it completely, so I try to only let one thing download at a time...no mattery, downloading at 320KiB (kilobytes right? or kilobits?) makes the wait not very long :)

[Brad]

KiB (kilobytes right? or kilobits?)
Kibibytes. The correct name for 1024 bytes.

[ast3r3x]

Kibibytes. The correct name for 1024 bytes.

Thankd, I know Kb and KB and kb and KB all the different variations, but BT was the first I saw KiB being used...never was positive, althogh I assumed it was KB

[Wickers]

Azureus for my BitTorrents. . . love that program.
And LimeWire for misc. downloads.

Java based apps seem to have grown on me.

[ast3r3x]

Azureus for my BitTorrents. . . love that program.
And LimeWire for misc. downloads.

Java based apps seem to have grown on me.

Yeah limewire isn't that bad, it's second only to shooting yourself in the foot!

LimeWire sucks.

[thuh Freak]

i use mutella, a command line gnutella client (ie, same network as limewire and many others). it also has a web interface, which is pretty cool. some times i'm at work and i think of a [legal file] i need to download. i open up firefox and hit my house's mutella server.

Thankd, I know Kb and KB and kb and KB all the different variations, but BT was the first I saw KiB being used...never was positive, althogh I assumed it was KB
miniscule 'b' is supposed to mean 'bit', and majuscule 'B' is byte. in networking equipment they often refer to bits, most everywhere else bytes. i'm pretty sure that kilo is supposed to be a majuscule 'K'. a lot of places they say refer to KB or kilobytes, when they mean 1024 bytes, forwhich a new term has been derived: kibibytes (KiB).

[Brad]

ia lot of places they say refer to KB or kilobytes, when they mean 1024 bytes, forwhich a new term has been derived: kibibytes (KiB).
Correct. :)

This whole naming thing actually spurred a lawsuit against hard drive manufacturers some time ago. If you'll recall, drives are labeled using the decimal system rather than the binary system. That's why a 100 GB drive doesn't format to 100 GB. The SI prefixes giga, mega, and kilo are powers of ten. In 1999, the IEC decided that the new prefixes kibi, mibi, gibi, tebi, pebi, and exbi are to be used when referring to binary (computer storage) because they use the correct powers of two that computers understand.

The OS is as guilty (if not more) than the drive manufacturers for misleading people because the OS should be using the Gi, Mi, and Ki prefixes.

But I digress... :\

[ThunderPoit]

i refuse to use those prefixes. it sounds too much like youre talking with a plugged up nose. "Ya, I just got a new gmail account w/ 1 gibibyte of storage space..."

[Windswept]

i refuse to use those prefixes. it sounds too much like youre talking with a plugged up nose. "Ya, I just got a new gmail account w/ 1 gibibyte of storage space..."
:lol:

[Koodari]

Azureus (BitTorrent client), mlMac and Poisoned on the Dock.

I like BitTorrent, that's the only P2P network I use to transfer big files. Usually this means unlicenced anime. Both mlMac and Poisoned have bad interfaces IMHO, and the networks themselves are impossibly slow. I don't really use Poisoned at all, and only use mlMac to look for PDF books (fact not fiction). The books are only a few MB at most so even a slow network can deal with them.

[Wickers]

Yeah limewire isn't that bad, it's second only to shooting yourself in the foot!

LimeWire sucks.

I hardly use it, but it works for what I need it for.

I mainly use BitTorrent

[goldfish]

I only use Soulseek for music (via VPC), as it's the only source for new music I've found to steer clear of mainstream shite and head more into the realms of obscure electronica and the like... it's not perfect but it works.

been thinking about trying BitTorrent for live gigs though... is Azureus a Mac client?

Simon

[ShiggyMiyamoto]

been thinking about trying BitTorrent for live gigs though... is Azureus a Mac client?

Simon

Yeah it is. It's written in Java I think.

Anywho, my p2p client of choice is Direct Connect. ^_^ It's better and more stable than any other p2p'r out there. I'd suggest you try it out.

[Spart]

Yeah it is. It's written in Java I think.

Anywho, my p2p client of choice is Direct Connect. ^_^ It's better and more stable than any other p2p'r out there. I'd suggest you try it out.

Direct Connect used to be good, but you can hardly connect to any hubs anymore with the Neo-Modus client. DC++ isn't ported to the Mac in a usable form yet, so DC is out for me.

I've been using Acquisition with great results. Used to get really slow downloads with other versions, but it appears that problem has been fixed.

On a side note, what apps do you guys recommend for Windows? My friend needs something other than KaZaA...requirements are that there has to be no spyware, the program must be freeware, and it must be easy to use.

[ShiggyMiyamoto]

Direct Connect used to be good, but you can hardly connect to any hubs anymore with the Neo-Modus client. DC++ isn't ported to the Mac in a usable form yet, so DC is out for me.

I've been using Acquisition with great results. Used to get really slow downloads with other versions, but it appears that problem has been fixed.

On a side note, what apps do you guys recommend for Windows? My friend needs something other than KaZaA...requirements are that there has to be no spyware, the program must be freeware, and it must be easy to use.

True dat.. but there's a client called DCGUI which is almost as good, though DC++ is a must.

I'd recommend DC++ :D lol

[Wickers]

Or BitTorrent. . .

I mean, common the community is strong in numbers!

[scratt]

I agree Limewire is frustrating. :grumble:

But strangely after trying them all... that is the one in my Dock.

The reason is this...

I started with LimeWire and knew no better.

I tried MacDonkey / mldonkey and found that a lot of the time I got nothing coming down... occasionally really fast... but it was unreliable.

So I went back to Limewire.

I tried Bittorrent some time ago (BUT I WILL COME BACK TO THIS) and was again dissapointed.

So I went back to Limewire.

I tried MacFilez and IRC and within 30 seconds of being connected I was 'kick'ed off and banned for life! Apparently some asshole on there didn't like my handle or something and I have never been able to re-connect or get any of the cowards running it to answer an email! As you all know nothing can be done by anyone but those that run MacFilez to sort out my being permanently banned!

So I went back to Limewire.

OK... so it is not the fastest... but you can just leave it there in the background trucking away... It doesn't always have the most recent / relevant stuff... but that way you know what you are getting is 99% solid.

So... what do I have in my dock... LimeWire.

All the best,
scratt.:p

To refer to BitTorrent... I just recently used it to pull down a demo of X-Plane... and was stunned... simply stunned by how fast it came down!! So fast in fact (my ISP has a MB limit each hour) I had to pause the download and restart 20 minutes later! Never had to do that before... so I will be looking at BitTorrent a bit closer in future...

But Limewire is still in my dock and I don't expect it to go anywhere! :)

[greyfire]

I've been using Poisoned here at home for the summer, but my college blocks pretty much all P2P traffic, so I DL from newsgroups, which I find sufficient for almost everything, unless I'm looking for something obscure.