I am back here after a 3 year hiatus. So not really a noob, but certainly could use some advice at this time.
I worked for a large networking hardware company (huge bandwidth) many years ago, and was on the Napster, WinMX, DCC, and Limewire client for some time. But more recent issues (my own bandwidth and the record companies suing people) has meant that I have not been using a P2P client for a long time.
I want to start publishing music - what's the best client to use? BitTorrent seems to be a favourite.
Torrent's are definitely the way to go. Most of limewire, shareaza, winmx is full of junk. I would suggest using Azureus as a bit torrent client. It's the most stable. If ur not behind a router its quite easy. Just dl the latest version of Azureus, pick a TCP/UDP port nuumber for the program to run through ur firewall, in the 50000 range. Put this number in azureus(tools->options->connections) and in ur firewall exception list. Run the Nat test in Azureus tools tab, hopefully comes back "ok". Go to Torrentspy.com or a decent public site, find a torrent w/ lots of seeders and test it out.
If you plan on sticking with origional p2p, May I suggest IML Peanuts.
Quote:IML Peanuts is a new simple filesharing program. Peanuts includes many options convenient features to download media, but keeps it all simple.
With IML Peanuts you can search simultaneously on other file-sharing networks such as Ares, Fasttrack, Gnutella, OpenFT, OpenNap and iMesh2 network. This will give you more files, more sources, faster downloads and rare files!
I Posted this in another thread but check out shareaza at shareaza.com it lets you use download torrents, search and download off the Gnutella network, Gnutella 2 ( second gen. Gnutella network), and the eDonkey network. It is distributed under the General Public License and is completely clean of and type of "ware". Its fast even for a dial-up user like me 5mg in 15min. at 28.8 kbps!! now imagine how fast that would be with a dsl 100 kbps+ connection!!
