What is the best P2P software available? Many to choose from (iMesh, Xolox, Limewire etc) but dont want to install them because of adware etc.

well i think eMule is good

i agree Emule Plus Rules!

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well when i used to use windows i think emule,kazza,bittorrent,and limewire pro were the best and i thought Shareaza was the worst but each to their own. Now that im only using my mac now i use IRC and Bittorrent.

BitTorrent all the way, baby.

Gotta love how you can get whole seasons of TV Shows there. Saves a lot of VHS costs. (I know, I could get a DVD Recorder, but hey... CDs aren't too bad either, and with a TV-Out on my PC, it is more than good enough.)

EDIT:
Oh, oh! And you can also get TV-Show which you'd be unable to get otherwise (cause they don't show in your own country for some reason or another..) - but I'm babbling.. this thread isn't about that.

1 part I've to fix
shareaza connects to edonkey network.
also downloads torrent links.
and if a torrent file exist on edonkey/emule networks it downloads
so shareaza all the way.
mp3's are okay. but I hate the fact that it doesn't, most of the time display the bitrates. and these new copyright stuff are annoying

ShareAza is the best - stick with it.
Upgrade to v2.0 of it, if you haven't already done so.

It kicks a**, 'cos it supports many P2P networks.
It supports Gnutella 1 & 2, eDonkey2000, BitTorrent, and is also a good download manager (for http/ftp files). And this is just the beginning.

shareaza is the best IMO
for the same reasons prathapml said

These P2P programs mentioned before... any spyware associated with them?

Hello All,

I downloaded emule and when it tries to connect, it says YOU HAVE A LOW ID check ur network/config settings??

What is a low id/??? and where and what to do?

Thanks and regards
take care all,
Mutahir

@mutahir: You know, you should really read the topic before you start posting stuff. I don't think posting about your eMule problem has anything to do with "Best Peer-to-Peer Software"

i can speak for Shareaza, it doesnt have spyware, not sure about the others cuz i dont use them

search

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Kazaa Lite K++ w/ Peer Guardian up and running - sweet combo, emule is just tooo slow

BITTORRENT

The best and most secure way i know to share files

|Drew|

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just be careful getting the brand new stuff, or the popular stuff. Especially in the US. I got a letter from my ISP that i violated teh DMCA because I started downloading the Friends Series Finale because I missed. I mean seriously, if it was on TV.....


I'd use Shareaza, but you may want to get a good IP blocker to keep out those naughty people that want money from you...

I use Kazaa Lite Resurrection, Emule plus and Shareaza together with Peer Guardian.

Kazza Lite ++ died due to Kazza Media shutting them down but its been Resurrected.

Kazaa Lite Resurrection 0.0.7.5 (Kazaa Lite K++ 2.5.5)

if you have a router you will need to forward ports:
4661
4662
4672
5555

If no router and you using xp take off the built in xp firewall, also if using norton, zonealarm etc, disable it for emule.

Check out emules site for more help

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I only use 6 programs for all my downloading needs:

IRC (how can you not?)
ReGet Deluxe (best download accelerator in the world for me)
FlashFXP (best FTP program I've found)
NewsBin Pro (best program to find pictures of EVERYTHING)
BitTorrent (great for those obscure things you can't get elsewhere)
eMule Plus! (best place to find those OLD songs that you can't buy anywhere - I have that happen a lot in Australia)

BitTorrent
IRC (not really peer to peer, but hey it does the job)
Bearshare
Direct Connect

IRC is peer to peer when you think your downloading something of someone else and not a website etc.

Peer to Peer is when you have data coming from more than one source, if all the data is coming from the same source (a la IRC) it is not true Peer to Peer.

My personal fave is Overnet which is part of the eDonkey network. Others I have used are: Direct Connect, DC++, WinMX, Bittorrent, eMule.

Your right sorry... Here is what I actually meant:

I have written a mIRC script that can download "parts" of a file from different sources via IRC. You specify what file your downloading, who your downloading from (one or more people) and then my script will calculate the file size, split it up and request sections from each of those people.

So yes, IRC itself isn't a true peer-to-peer but with a little help it can be.

Have you published that script? How does it work? Does it require fserves or does it require xdcc's? Does it support both?

There is still a few bugs with the script (been getting a lot of corrupt downloads lately) so I haven't published it yet. I might do that one day.

It only suppots XDCC's at the moment. FServes may be a little harder to code into it.

Its a pain finding the file you want, yet finding 2 xdcc's with the exact same file? get outta here...

You just need to know where to look.

Ive found Shareaza to be the Best =D

KazaaLite
WinMX
LimeWire

No spyware

I have been using Limewire now for about 2 months. Only glitch i can see is if your trying to get a large file (i.e. over 100 meg) it tends to disconnect and be super slow. But strangely enough if you get large files simultaneously it seems to speed up and not drop out. I have seen sustained dl speeds up to 125kb/s. Average is probably closer to 25 or 30 kb/s. I wonder why almost no one has mentioned limewire in this post, complete junk or havent tried it?

I'v been using limewire pro for few months now and i can say it's truly best p2p applications for mp3 sharing. Searches are quick and responsive, has some rare music files that are hard to find and the speeds are maxing out. The applications is a bit slow, so is any other java program out there. Maybe they should write it in some faster language such as c. Lastly limewire is the only p2p application i have installed besides bit torrent.

Am I the only one here that uses DC++?

emule, bar none.

emule Plus...

WINMX!

I personnally use BITTORNADO! The only simple (well i tried 2 before this one)bittorent client. Just click the torrent link and it starts up, very fast downloads. Just wait for the convenient tray icon to turn from gray to white and download is done. Don't forget to stay on longer after file transfert is finished if you want to help share the wealth!

Since I'm very unlucky at finding bittorent files appart from suprnova (I really don't rememeber the url, justdon't put an e to supr) I have been using eDonkey for a long time. It gots lots of good stuff there, like albums in .rar or .zip format, which is so much better then looking for each song (there is so much bands with only 1 hit and an album that sucks a**), but for some people, including me, since version 1.0 was released I'm having serious speed problems, often uploading a full day without downloading a byte, i'm also "lowid"ed even if i done all the steps to resolve this (it occured only after installing v1.0) so if you can find the old 0.53 installer (maybe I should rollback... ) DOWNLOAD EDONKEY v0.53b else try v1.0 if it works or wait for an update!

Should I try Shareaza? Well there is a new 2.0 version, and I'm afrait of new things (like I regret trying the new edonkey version...) so anyone know it it's good?

this is also a good download mananger MediaGet.
http://www.mediaget.com

Using Azureus and Emlue Plus right now, will have to check out Shareaza later though.

i just found out about warezp2p program, the interface looks like kazaa's
has about 1M users
otherwise I use dc++, azureus, shareaza, emule...

whats a magnet dl? shareaza has it but i've never seen a link to magnet.

A magnet is for downloading bittorents i believe. that was what it told me when i put in a bittorrent. (don't pin me on that though)

Using Emule ofcourse
Shareaza 2.0

Mostly i use Emule cause i'm very familiar with it, and a lot of good iso's can be found there although lattely a lot of Noob's have found it and the best webpage is down already for so long so yeah time to find a better one that the NooB's don't understand

@ Mr. Spok,

I agree, I love emule, and I have learned to use it very efficiently, but these Noob F**ks ruin everything. First ShareReactor, the Shareconnector, and I have benn tring Filedonkey, even that is down. I hate Noobs. I love Emule, slow but never had a bad download, ever, and have been using it for over a year now, best content on one network I would say, you just need a good indexing site for ed2k links to get the best content out of it, but the searches within the program are good as well.

Kazaa lite : Music
E-donkey/overnet : rarities,or hard to find thing
Irc + Ftp: Movies


Since the Major will put down the Price of cd-dvd's

@ ChunkDog

that's the difficult part of a indexing page. I have run for a long time the www.donkeynl.com page but we have been taken down
And sins that a lot of page's have followd cause of the fact that the strait start to come with laywers and stuff.
I can't pay a laywer that's good inof to take it up agains M$ for instance.
So when you want to have a very good index page for ed2k, then you need a few things.
1. A good webhost that have no problem with it.
2. about 20g bandwhite
3. A very good laywer.

The guy who was the webmaster of sharereactor is still having a lot of problems and is still in a battle with court and others

hey guys! The Answer is simple, just look my hit parade

1- DIRECT CONNECT
2- BIT TORRENT
3- EDONKEY 2000

have fun

I hate Shareaza!

I Love Bittorrent. I use Azureus.

eMule
ares lite
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