Shareaza review - a better Peer to peer program

Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Sun Sep 12, 2004 7:32 pm

http://www.iceteks.com/articles.php?act=vi...e=shareaza&p=1&

With the RIAA terrorists crashing into file sharing, attacking Napster, Morpheus, KaZaA.... file sharing seems to have collapsed since then. Not to mention that allot of P2P programs now have spyware in them. Well Shareaza comes to the rescue and rebuilds the file sharing community! It is a great spyware-free program that will make P2P stronger.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Mon Sep 13, 2004 2:10 pm

Something to try.

I never heard of Azureus before though I'll have to give that a try too, and might even review it.... here's the new plan I should review all the p2p programs

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Tue Sep 14, 2004 5:00 pm

I just tried emule and it does not even connect.

It just says "connecting" and stays there.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Tue Sep 14, 2004 7:10 pm

Really I think there's probably not a perfect one out there. The problem is too many networks, somehow all the developers should get together and design one single network. It should be standardized the same way as HTTP is. There's many server and browser choices, but it's one protocol. That would solve allot of the major problems.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Fri Sep 17, 2004 3:16 pm

Actually I just tried emule and it is better then shareaza. Less features but it's still under development so hopefully more will be added. I just downloaded a trial of autocad 2005 in like a matter of hours. While shareaza is great for small files, it lacks stability for larger ones.

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Death · Post by **Death** » Wed Dec 29, 2004 4:22 pm

I enjoy Edonkey 2000, but that's only 'cause I got a hacked version. Cheers

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manadren_it · Post by **manadren_it** » Thu Feb 24, 2005 3:06 pm

EdonkeyEmule is better for large files or rare ones. Mind you in my experience it takes for bloody ever to dl something off of emule unless it's insanely popular. Kazaagnutella for smaller and more common files. They're a lot faster, but whether or not you get the file is somewhat more dependent on the whims of other users.

Bit torrent is somewhat the best of both worlds, but obviously there are issues about finding what you are looking for in the first place.

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Pyr-O-Rgasm · Post by **Pyr-O-Rgasm** » Fri Feb 25, 2005 12:52 am

I heard Shareaza sucked. I use to use Kazaa Lite K++. Now Kazaa is shitting out on me. It will start to download the files, I'll check back later and they disappeared, so naturally I'm like, "YAY! IT'S DONE!". Wrong. The file is no where to be found. BitTorrent is my favorite as long as you can find good sites.

R.I.P. www.suprnova.org.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Sun Jun 05, 2005 10:52 pm

Well it seems to have dived like most p2p networks. I have 20 downloads, all pending.

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jellyfish · Post by **jellyfish** » Wed Jun 22, 2005 4:14 pm

Emule downloads are based on a reward system, you have to have a high upload to download ratio in order to get alot of decent downloads, but once you do emule is brilliant- especially for programs, i downloaded a program last night at the speed of 70.

I like the file comment capabilities of emule aswell, it saves alot of time by not downloading corrupted files.

I use bit tornado aswell- my highest speed on there was 196.

I once downloaded 26 high quality music albums from emule in the space of 7 days...didn't like most of them so i deleted them, but that's not the point...rare stuff is there aswell.

soulseek used to be brilliant for getting rare stuff but now it just doesn't work for me.

[R.I.P soulseek.]

emule is good for downloading tv episodes- that's mainly what i download now (via: http://www.the-realworld.de/).

will be going off line now for ages as i'm moving house tomorrow but i'll be back soon with an 8MB connection...much fun will be had on bit tornado/Shareaza.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Wed Jun 22, 2005 4:44 pm

Oh wow 8mbit, that's almost LAN speed (well a slow LAN, but faster then most DSL/Cable services

). But don't expect to actually hit that though, Mine is a 5mbit connection but it's really about 1, at the most.

I don't think I've ever tried emule, I'll have to give it a try. I hope there's no spyware, I'll have to research first.

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jellyfish · Post by **jellyfish** » Wed Jun 22, 2005 9:29 pm

Emule doesn't contain any spyware but edonkey does (both connect to the same network).

here's the link to the 8MB deal i'm getting: http://www.bulldogbroadband.com/residentia...NP/XP/index.asp

My bit torrent speeds will increase at least.

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