Best P2P Program
 

What do you think is the best P2P program? Personally, I like Shareaza (http://www.shareaza.com) because it connects to the Gnutella 1, Gnutella2 and eDonkey networks, and has a bunch of cool features such as remote access.

What about you? Please don't say "Bittorent".

bittorrent.





ok now, seriously, i use kazaa lite resurrection if anything... and that's because i didn't bother to uninstall it for so long.

i haven't actually used any of the other programs since a year and a half ago. i remember bearshare being pretty horrible though.

I like BCDC++ for DC++ things. I will occasionally use DC++, because the good hubs aren't littered with complete crap. Of course, that being said, most good hubs have insane share requirements, defeating most good that could come out of them for me. (That is, I don't have 80GB of stuff readily available to share.)
I don't really like Kazaa/Limewire, and Shareaza is unbelievably slow for me :\

As far as BitTorrent is concerned (which is essentially the most versatile and solid P2P network), µTorrent is the way to go.

Probably the best program I have come across is mIRC. It's not a normal p2p program, and its fairly hard to use, but once you know how to use it, you can get anything you want, just about. So if your up for it, here

I mainly searh for torrents (uTorrent) primarily, then if I can't find what I'm after, then I'll look around on Gnutella/eDonkey with shareazaa. If I still can't find it I'll look around IRC.

Also don't forget http - RapidShared and Megauploaded have gotten me quite alot of neat stuff.

Finally if I still don't have what I'm after, then I'll either give up, or try GFF Requests forum / FTPs as a last resort.

That's probably becuase Shareaza relies heavily on the edonky network, which is notorious for day-long ques and slow speeds. However, If you just let them sit for awhile, they will pick up a decent speed within a day or two.

If I can't find it using BitTorrent, I'll use DC++. But since it's not always reliable, I'll head to soulseek. Not the best, but decent as a last resort and generally has what I want.

Bittorrent all the way. I've been using Emule lately and I'm very satisfied, you can get good stuff there, so it's my second choice.

I used to hang out at GFF Hub but it was kind of boring. Ares is my third option when it comes to individual songs, you know the classic escenario: "Dude, do you remember that song from the 90's... *goes download*"

I meant the application itself; I know that any download is bound to take time.

It's worth adding that, with mIRC, you'll need to know IRC servers and, therein, appropriate channels in which things can be found.

But sites such as www.ircspy.com and www.packetnews.com do let you do a pretty comprehensive XDCC search, provided the channel is registered on those respective sites I think, and its simply a click and paste job to download your file. Although I'm not entirely sure on the amount of channels they actually search.

Makes using IRC all the more hassle free though.

In my opinion I'd go:

1) Bit torrent.

2) DC++.

3) Limewire.

4) Emule.

5) IRC.

Do people actually still use shareaza? To me that is like so old school.

I use BitTorrent for the most part, although for single songs I just use Limewire.

How is Shareaza in any way "old school"?

And for those of you who use mIRC or IRC, what servers/channels whatever do you go to to get files?

I use torrents for any TV shows I need.

I pretty much exclusively use IRC for music, since it is easier to get older stuff there. Plus, it is still the safest way to download music, not that it seems like the RIAA is going after anyone anymore. It takes just a little bit more work.

I pretty much just use #mp3passion and #mp3_collective on Undernet.

My main OS being Linux, I use BitTornado to grab current and aMule for older stuff. P2P is off limits for my Windows install, for obvious reasons.

Besides Bittorrent, I usually use Limewire. It has always worked wonders for me..

I use uTorrent for all my P2P needs. No massive RAM usage BS and the fact that I can easily download a little and then continue later is a major plus. If they made BT anonymous, I'd be using it all the time...

For BT I use azearus (sp?). It's a RAM hog, but I can live with that.

I thought it was a RAM hog too, but it seems to work fine on Server 2003 without the massive slowdown I encountered when using it on XP Pro. Of course, there are evident reasons for that being true.
Azureus, despite memory useage, remains the most full-featured client.

BitTorrent, currently I'm using ABC and BitLord. (Well, BitLord is banned from some trackers, so thats when I use ABC!) I used to use LimeWire, but I gave up on it a long time ago.

DC++ is best and IRC is really great,and i hate Bittorent

What hub list are you using for DC++?

I'd use IRC, but I never took the time to learn how to use it and probably never will...

Limewire is pretty good. Then emule is probally the best for finding really rare files

IRC all the way. If you know where to go you can get just about anything you need.

I never quite got into fileservers on IRC. Could you recommend a guide that isn't mIRC oriented?

You guys do know that IRC is about as much a P2P system then our My Stuff forum, right?

Emule.

Yes, but I don't know what servers/channels offer files. Same goes for DC++. I need a good hub list.

try to get Invision 2.0 Build 3515 and will get very easy to dl from it

I'm using default Hub list but you need share alot to can enter and hubs you want

DC++ is a lame p2p program. If you dont share alot of files, you cant enter a room/hub.

Just stick with emule folks and of course B.T.

You could visit pretty much every channel on Efnet I'd say.

My point was that IRC is not meant for file exchange, it just has the possibility of setting up a DCC server from which people can access your files, and mirc will advertise the trigger to that server in the channel you set it up to. Which is about as much P2P as the people in our My Stuff forum who set up their own FTP server and then drop the link in that forum. Except that most IRC clients have some kind of DCC server function built-in. It's a one-way file transfer, not true peer to peer file exchange.

Well I suppose this isn't officially a P2P service, but for all my download needs I use binary newsgroups from giganews.com and a program called Thoth. Sure, you have to pay a bit, but it's definitely worth it.

torrents, IRC, and newsgroups.

Yeah you'll have to pay for the newsgroup access, but the speed and plethora of information is more than worth it.

Well, you'll have to pay for good newsgroup access. For example, my ISP provides newsgroup access, but it's often incomplete or slow.

I used to do this, for about a week, until I got fed up with one day retention of 1,000,000 half loaded files.

I use bittorrent, but another good choice is Limewere easy to search file, better that other p2p program just like emule, etc.

I like how people are continuing to confuse P2P clients with networks despite the warning issued in the first post.

Use microtorrent .... its got pretty much everything azureus does and uses only like 6mb's memory max. Anyone who uses it doesn't go back.

This is more proof of how bad the riaa's campain against filesharers is... people don't even realize they're still suing people, because its not even news anymore when they do. However, the riaa recently (as in this month) sued 750 more people and they've been doing it continually since they started.

Oh yeah and to answer the thread

1. Bitorrent (utorrent)

2. BCDC++ and revconnect... whatever one i feel like

3. Mirc

4. Emule