Kazaa

[katana]

I tried Shareaza, but it slows my computer to a crawl. It also seems to be downloading stuff when I've not even set it to download (as evidenced by watching 'Bytes Received' on the Connection Menu). Not sure quite what its doing.

[stumonster]

"According to the network population stats at slyck, FastTrack (home of Kazaa) is no longer the most populous filesharing network. Top honors now belong to edonkey, a network of German origins. (Most edonkey users connect with emule, a gpl client for Windows)."

http://www.slyck.com/

eDonkey

eMule

[Mr_Happy]

Takes awhile to establish hub connections because it hooks to several different P2P networks gotta be a bit patient may take a couple hours to start going good. I've hit 700Kb/s. But you do need to run it on a current machine at least a 2.0 Ghz cpu. On a 1Ghz machine it used about 50% cpu power

[kabal1234]

Takes awhile to establish hub connections because it hooks to several different P2P networks gotta be a bit patient may take a couple hours to start going good. I've hit 700Kb/s. But you do need to run it on a current machine at least a 2.0 Ghz cpu. On a 1Ghz machine it used about 50% cpu power

You get 700 kb/s? How did you manage that? What's your speed per file? I average only about 5 kB/s What's your ISP

[Mr_Happy]

sometimes as high as 100kb/s per file but not always, seems like the torrents have the best performance consistently 20-30Kb/s. I'm on a true DSL 2.5MB/s that connects at 6.1MB/S , 640KB/s up (I must be pretty close to the switch )

[Mr_Happy]

clarify 700 kilo bits per second not KB make sure we are not talking apples and oranges

[MadFrankie]

what speeds are you guys gettin with the P2Ps (bit torrent) @ the moment? I've just been away for 10 days and previous to that I was gettin 100/120k a sec, now I can only get 30/40. Im on the 1mbit service

[Mr_Happy]

About the same as that depends on the time of day alignment of the moon

[MadFrankie]

About the same as that depends on the time of day alignment of the moon

nice one, when did you guyz systems begin to download SP2? Perhaps the speed problems that people have been having are due to MS adding thailands scope to the SP2 rollout ?

[Mr_Happy]

SP2 does negatively effect P2P performance, theres a hack that fixes the problem.

[simey]

I've just changed from kazaa to emule - it's a lot slower to start but after the qeueu wait I get high speeds and I leave the connection (adsl) running overnight to download, then run the stuff the next day. Seems quick enough, although you really need a cd burner to get the best out of it (for the bin and iso files).

[MadFrankie]

SP2 does negatively effect P2P performance, theres a hack that fixes the problem.

you have a link for the patch? just installing SP2 atm so, hopefully it wont get any worse.. I meant trues overall international network performance rather than client performance

[MadFrankie]

I've just changed from kazaa to emule - it's a lot slower to start but after the qeueu wait I get high speeds and I leave the connection (adsl) running overnight to download, then run the stuff the next day. Seems quick enough, although you really need a cd burner to get the best out of it (for the bin and iso files).

theres a program called daemon tools that you should find usefull

[Mr_Happy]

http://forums.shareaza.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=25701

info on SP2 affect on P2P programs...

[simey]

theres a program called daemon tools that you should find usefull

don't have the disk space for all of them, and cd-r's are so cheap it's easy to use them as storage and delete off my disk when necessary.

[withnail]

has anyone used the unlimited connections crack is it worth it and more importantly is it reversable I don't want to screw up my pc.

also is there a link

[MadFrankie]

has anyone used the unlimited connections crack is it worth it and more importantly is it reversable I don't want to screw up my pc.

also is there a link

aye, d/led and installed it and afaik it hasnt done any damage.. Had no chance to test it yet tho as my connection is totally ######ed with true