For a Peer-to-Peer program I am currently using K-Lite, with DietK & Kazoom added. I've also added DietK Firewall Booster since I'm stuck behind a firewall.
However, I've noticed that it's becoming increasingly more difficult to use K-Lite now a days. There are so many faulty links, that it gives me a head ache just sitting here and wasting my time trying to sort through what's a real link and what's not.
In any case, is there a better Peer-to-Peer program that I can use? What's the best one out there?
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I've tried out eMule and Shareaza, and they are very good. The good thing about Shareaza is that you can use it for BT, Gnutella, as well as ed2k (which eMule, eDonkey, and Overnet use). You may want to give those a try.
A site with a large number of P2P applications is ZeroPaid. There are reviews and download links for each of the applications. Some of the reviews there may not clear things up too much as you get the people who say "this app is the best ever", and then others who say "this is the worst P2P app ever".
I have tried shareaza alot of times becuase I see it gets good reviews but I can never seem to dowload anything, it just stays on queue. Whats your average download speed.
I use Emule to download videos but the download speed sucks. I also use Warez P2P.... its alot like Kazaa...
i personally prefer winMX, the UI isnt all the great but you can usually find and download what your looking for, AND it doesnt come bundled with any ad/spyware.
d/ls can be slow if your getting a file from someone who is on 56k but a lot of the users are on a faster connection from what i see.
You probably know this, but I'll say it anyway. I would recommend scanning each download for viruses before opening it, and don't download it to a 'shared' folder. There are a lot of shady characters out there.
I found one called ares and its the fastest I have tried yet but when you install you need to uncheck everything or it will install a toolbar. There is a bug in it that will make the uploads of partial downloads ignore the upload limit you set so it can hog your upstream bandwidth.
Shareaza is definitely the best, because it can combine sources of three networks into one download. Yes, it can be a bit slow, but it never failed to get me results (and I search for fairly obscure stuff).
just to let you know, klite is illegal because its an illegaly-modified version of kazaa w/o permission. it even says so in the liscence agreement.
ares is good, DC is ok, winmx is slow. ares isnt good at finding rare files, DC is. DC can be slow though because youre only downloading from one peer per file. ares downloads from mulitiple peers so its faster. WarezP2P is the same as ares, except it has spyware.
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I've started using AresLite and I'm having great success with it. I haven't gotten any false links, and my movies are downloading at great speeds. There are only two problems I've found so far, and they even aren't that big a deal.
1) when downloading a large file (ie movie), you'll get to 95% and then your bandwith will go down to about 15kbps. I don't know why? It just always slows down near the end.
2) it's next to impossible to find rare stuff. (ie. Sliders season 1&2 came out on DVD, and I couldn't find it. Plus with tv shows like enterprise and smallville, i have to wait 2-3 weeks after an episode airs, before I can find it.)
Those issues aside, Ares is the best program out there thus far. I would highly recommend it to anyone.
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