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Hi everyone. I just got started with eMule a couple of days ago. Just learned about PeerGuardian minutes ago. Have been in p2p for a few weeks now. Hope I installed PG in time. Seems like a great program although it had to take over my computer's cpu and massive bandwidth for a minute while it updated. Then went into background. Cool.
Ok, as I said I'd been using p2p for a few weeks - specifically WinMX 3.31 as I haven't heard of or found spy/ad/malware or even been hit by much in the way of virus attacks (free a/v software found two infected downloads, they are gone poof and only a few misnamed files). Haven't heard of any major industry incursions, but... I am wondering. It sure seems to be used by a lot of people to be ignored.
So after reading Della's "mini"-faq (all 14 pages of the thread my head is still spinning) about eMuleI became convinced to take the plunge. Seems like a great program although it seems a little(!) slow at downloading, 27.3 k/sec at this moment (10.8 uploading). I understand "patience, Grasshopper" and that things will pick up as files complete or time passes or the moons of Saturn line up or something. I can handle that.
So I have been doing hit or miss searches and have discovered there are several other options, which may or may not work together:
eMule I am learning this one and so far it looks cool. Does it connect to all servers in my list at the same time? Or do I need to figure out how to rank them according to their transfer speeds and their usefulness to me (ie, types of files I am looking for and in English as I am a poor cripple-headed American)?
Overnet Know nothing about this but have read the term in several messages here and there about eMule. Is it a p2p client? A p2p server? Umm, is it like IRC (is this still considered Internet Relay Chat? I tried it a few years ago when I found out about mIRC client but a couple of days later my computer melted and never got it figured out. I guess some kind of chat network but people talk about it like it is p2p? Are there two different things called irc?)? I am clueless on this one.
DC++ I have read here (in threads about eMule) that it is really fast and "current" but you "need to be invited to join a hub" or something? What is this one all about? Sounds kind of elitest to me but I would like to know more.
XSClient Don't know anything about this one either, the place I got PeerGuardian from mentioned it. Anyone?
Ok, that is all the p2p programs I desire to know about right now. I have long looked at programs such as bearshare, limewire, kazaa, etc. with utter distaste. Who cares if you can now download a version without ad/spy/malware? That's like buying beef from "Bills Poisoned Meats" because his new ad slogan is "Now a version available WITHOUT poison", I mean I guess it is a philosophical thing with me, but although everyone is entitled to es opinion, I have made up my mind. WinMX seems great, fast searches and lots of people to download from (lots before I found out about the numbers that eMule deals with, anyway). But my speeds only average 12-80k/sec. and have never gotten over 188k bytes/sec. And everyone has convinced me to try one of the "All Grown Up Now" versions of p2p. I have a feeling I'll still be using WinMX from time-to-time, but it may fade as I learn.
Thanks in advance for your help (& patience). I have always believed that the only stupid questions are the ones a person asks over and over after es has received the answer to. So I will try to digest any helpful info I receive and not keep asking over and over just because the answers expect me to think a little bit. And I will try to use any knowledge I gain to help others. (In the old days that went without saying but that was before the terms "flame" and "troll" were even invented, so, well, I am saying it now. Progress is a wonderful thing but sadly, not all change is progress.)
Thanks again,
Luvs His Ex
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