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Best P2P?
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alpsig
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16. March 2006 @ 04:43 |
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What is the best P2P Program to use?
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16. March 2006 @ 09:15 |
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For single musical tracks, i'd have to say limewire the one i'd recommend. It is clean and still free of spyware, and is very fast. You can find out more info & a download of Limewire through this link.
http://www.limewire.com/english/content/home.shtml
For rare songs, I suggest you take a look at soulseek, which works in a different way from your usual run-of-the-mill p2p client. The inteface allows you to meet & chat with people with similar music taste, and swap tracks. Only downside is that it's music only, so if you are looking for an all-in-one p2p client, this probably isn't for you. Another con is that you are only ever downloading from one peer, which means you rarely get decent speeds, but it is rewarding if it is a hard-to-find track (which is often the case when downloading from soulseek ;)
Info and downloads of the soulseek client can be found through this link.
http://www.slsknet.org/
For videos & applications/games & full albums, I use torrents. You may not be familiar with Bittorrent, but here's a quick starter.
Get a client;
My personal recommendation is uTorrent. It is a very 'light' client, meaning it is small, and easy on your compy's resources.
Info & download can be found at uTorrent's mainsite.. http://www.utorrent.com/
Get peerguardian2 - **essential**;
In the words of AfterDawn, it is a tiny IP blocker program especially designed for P2P software users, but also to anyone who is concerned about the investigations that corporations and authorities perform on the internet. PeerGurdian blocks connections for the configured IP ranges and logs the blocked connections. It uses blocklists for the blocking, but IP ranges can also be configured manually. Pre-cofigured for blocking are RIAA, MPAA and many others.
PG2 - http://www.afterdawn.com/software/download_splash.cfm
Finally, you need to search the torrent sites to find the softwares/videos/music etc that your require.. (all legal, of course ;)
Here are some of my favourites..
http://www.isohunt.com/
http://www.torrentreactor.to/
http://www.torrentbox.com/
http://www.thepiratebay.org/
http://www.torrenttyphoon.com/
There are many others, including 'invite only private sites'. You may be able to grab an invite to a private site in this thread..
http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/271926
Once you have found a particular torrent you wish to download, you need to open it with your bittorrent client (i.e. uTorrent) to begin downloading..
Have fun..
This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 16. March 2006 @ 09:19
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alpsig
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16. March 2006 @ 09:40 |
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If I just used something simple like Limewire, should I still download the Peerguardian 2?
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alpsig
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16. March 2006 @ 09:44 |
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Also, does it take long to download a video file using torrents? A couple of years ago I use to use iMesh to download stuff, whether it be movies, music, etc. But I have not done anything with P2P in a couple of years. Anyway, when I would download video files using iMesh, it typically would take a good 30 minutes or more to download a file.
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16. March 2006 @ 10:09 |
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If I just used something simple like Limewire, should I still download the Peerguardian 2?
Yes, I suggest you use peerguardian when filesharing, no matter what the method.
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Also, does it take long to download a video file using torrents? A couple of years ago I use to use iMesh to download stuff, whether it be movies, music, etc. But I have not done anything with P2P in a couple of years. Anyway, when I would download video files using iMesh, it typically would take a good 30 minutes or more to download a file.
That is a very vague question.. depends on number of seeders/leechers / size of file / connection speed etc.. You need to be a little more specific..
But, generally speaking, on well seeded torrents, you can easily reach optimum speeds..
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alpsig
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16. March 2006 @ 10:23 |
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Since my computer runs through a router, will the router allow the connection that needs to occur whether it be using a P2P or Torrent? Years ago when I used P2P, I did not have a router. But I have read that routers and P2P's do not get along very well.
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17. March 2006 @ 04:19 |
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AferDawn has loads of threads on forwarding ports and how to increase d/l speeds with a router, go for limewire (pm me for how to get Limewire pro) you'll be fine.
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But I have read that routers and P2P's do not get along very well.
No, i spose you'll be fine, you may get slow speeds but theres ways around that.
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