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Which P2P program do you use?




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What do you use for your P2P filesharing pleasure?

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uTorrent v1.5 (BitTorrent Client)

Reply to CptDrake
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Same here.

uTorrent is the best and most resource efficient BT Client around to date.

Reply to Iscabis

I use 3 of them.
For torrents: uTorrent. Ultra small, light, and efficient. Simply marvelous.
For music: LimeWire. It finds almost anything I throw at it, and at a decent download speed.
For the rest: eMule! I would say the BEST P2P program ever! Ok ok, it may be a little slow at first, but give it a month, and you'll be able to see 100-150 KB/s download rates! :D

Reply to Multiplectic

On my 64-bit system, I use Ktorrent, and on my 32-bit box I use Azureus. Both are BT clients. Azureus is nicer than Ktorrent but the 64-bit version of Azureus always barfs when you try to run it.

Reply to MU_Engineer
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Use Ares, no spyware

Reply to g-paw
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For torrenting I use Azureus, can micro-manage pretty much everything and get an entire statistical rundown on anything. User friendly, and especially because it is a quick and stable means to directly transfer any kind of file to a single person instead of using an FTP.

Only other program I bother with anymore is eMule, simply because the ed2k network can have some of the oddest, oldest, or simply rarest things floating around... and there are plenty of linux distros and support pdfs/chms around on it ;)

Edit: Just read the article...

I have to say that sounded exactly like my experience with Shareaza... I tend to see them using ed2k only quite alot, and usually only downloading. I did even try the DMZ... Shareaza has been around for years, and while the GUI has improved immensely the downloading has not.

As for ed2k... with the closure of eDonkey things have gone downhill, but are still ticking. Several major severs were taken offline for massive copyright infringement, and quite a few fake servers were put up to catch illegal P2Pers using names of well known and popular servers... these servers would also filter search results or outright block them so the only results shown would be from people your individual eMule client is currently connected to that the server could not filter, or from eMules' built in P2P twin Kademlia, which is serverless and completely decentralized. It does tend to be slow unless it's a popular file... anything with only a handful of sources takes awhile, usually an hour or more.

Reply to Kougar
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I seem to recall an article done recently on a beginners guide to downloading Red & Blue....

Anyways, good thing you didn't include Usenet, since its more of a peer-server-peer scheme.

The real comment I have though is that who cares what program you use? I want to know what NETWORK you're using. Take, for example, eMule & eDonkey. Why are they seperate, its the same network? Why not include aMule or lMule? Different app, same network. Definetly should have been which P2P network do you use, and ed2k would be the choice. Then you get into the apps which use multiple networks, like Morpheus. It doesn't have its own network. It piggybacks on the ed2k network, the bittorrent network, gnutella network, whatever it can do. It's not revolutionary in any way shape or form, its a combination of previously existing things that anybody who is intelligent enough to use could have figured out before. I said it before, and I'll say it again, if you do not know how to use P2P don't bother finding out, you'll download foreign language files and movies you don't have codecs for, let alone the knowledge of how to find out what codec it uses and/or install that appropriate codec. For god's sake, its 2006, Napster started practically a decade ago (almost...sorta).

Reply to joex444

I have a Mac and a PC and I use Azureus on both with excellent results.

Reply to dbcanada

For torrents I use Azureus. I love the built in encryption. Lets me get past those annoying filters from my ISP. For music I use Soulseek. Completely void of ads and spyware, and totally free. I can find almost anything on Soulseek.

Reply to Gary_Busey

Ok, so i have a box setup in a DMZ that uses Bearshare. Should I be using something else?

Reply to MikeyP410
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same as u I used shareaza now bearshare. Now I think It's time to move to another

Reply to lolitha
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Is there really a P2P program called bittorent? I thought that was a network :?

Anyway, I use Shareaza as it can connect to Gnutella (Bearshare, Limewire), eDonkey (eMule) and Bittorent (uTorrent, bitComet, Azureus). Reason: ease of use. I don't have to run 3 programs at the same time. Plus, I can do a search on both the eDonkey and Gnutella network at the same time.

Reply to Dr_asik

I use utorrent normally but I never get that good speeds
as I have dynamic connection like most people in the uk. I mean
does that mean everybody here has a direct connection surely
that cost a lot. I wish I had a direct connection but I am sure my
computer would get infected more often.
Do all the internet providers in the US connect you to direct connection?

I would like to be able to use utorrent with full bandwidth campatibility, I know about port forwarding but that makes no difference for dynamic ip's.
does somebody know better ?
thanks

Reply to samzen06

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For torrents I use Azureus. I love the built in encryption. Lets me get past those annoying filters from my ISP.



Azureus is the best I've used to date for BitTorrent. Beats ABC and BitLord hands down.

Reply to Robovski
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utorrent comsumes less resources than azuresus i guess.

Reply to lolitha
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i use Ares

Reply to aur3n
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i use emule, when it is not under a firewall it' s the quickest for me

Reply to nicsim

I currently use UTorrent, a very fast torrent program to download, it's size is 291KB.

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Message edited by Sunny_12 on 08-30-2009 at 05:34:18 AM
Reply to Sunny_12

uTorrent.
It feels the cleanest to me.
Other torrent programs just look so unorganized, messy, and frankly, quite ugly.
uTorrent is sleek, sexy, extremely simple, and it works. Need I say more?

Reply to anamaniac

Definitely uTorrent. I even use it as my default bittorrent program on Linux under WINE because it's just that cool.

Reply to sciencectn
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I use Azureus Vuze.....Ares download too much spam and virus....Azureus is the best, IP filtering, and the best option WORKS REALLY GOOD WITH LINUX...

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