It's that time of the year again... P2P programs.

Joe Camacho · Post by **Joe Camacho** » Sat Nov 18, 2006 4:32 am

So, Ares, Limewire and Morpheus just don't cut it anymore. Fellow P2Pers, What programs still work, and if the said programs work for you..

How the hell do you have them configured? Thanks !

franpa · Post by **franpa** » Sat Nov 18, 2006 6:24 am

emule... if you have a router just forward the ports listed in the help file... its pretty much edonkey2000 without the ads.

Deathlike2 · Post by **Deathlike2** » Sat Nov 18, 2006 6:32 am

franpa wrote:emule... if you have a router just forward the ports listed in the help file... its pretty much edonkey2000 without the ads.

That's not a good solution if you want the popular stuff. That network is only good for hard-to-find stuff.

Torrents are the way to go these days.

AntoineWG · Post by **AntoineWG** » Sat Nov 18, 2006 8:57 am

Bit Che and Azureus work incredibly well. Bit Che searches a bunch of popular Bittorrent sites and Azureus is probably the most fully featured Bittorrent client around. uTorrent is also supposed to be good because it uses very little memory. You do need to forward some ports for any BT client to perform well, though.

Joe Camacho · Post by **Joe Camacho** » Sat Nov 18, 2006 11:49 am

AntoineWG wrote:Bit Che and Azureus work incredibly well. Bit Che searches a bunch of popular Bittorrent sites and Azureus is probably the most fully featured Bittorrent client around. uTorrent is also supposed to be good because it uses very little memory. You do need to forward some ports for any BT client to perform well, though.

Last time I used Azureus, it didn't have a built in search future.. But, would they let me download individual files? For example, mp3s?

Post by **Agozer** » Sat Nov 18, 2006 2:04 pm

BitTorrent and DC++. those are the ones I use.

Also, uTorrent is teh sex.

byuu · Post by **byuu** » Sat Nov 18, 2006 2:17 pm

uTorrent lets you select individual files from a torrent to download. But if the torrent maker stuck every file inside a ZIP, you're out of luck.

Get uTorrent. Stay the hell away from the official BitTorrent client, it has virtually no features, is buggy as hell, and constantly forces you to update it.

juef · Post by **juef** » Sat Nov 18, 2006 2:47 pm

byuu wrote:Get uTorrent.

Do that. µTorrent is dozens of times lighter than most BT clients, it's simple to use, and it works really well.

Oskar_Hanberg · Post by **Oskar_Hanberg** » Sat Nov 18, 2006 3:44 pm

Bitcomet. But use 0.70.. because the other versions experience random fuckups.

Also.. dc++ might work. But I don't use it much these days because various idiots mess up the hubs with pr0n and virazes.

AntoineWG · Post by **AntoineWG** » Sat Nov 18, 2006 8:57 pm

Oskar_Hanberg wrote:Bitcomet. But use 0.70.. because the other versions experience random fuckups.

Also.. dc++ might work. But I don't use it much these days because various idiots mess up the hubs with pr0n and virazes.

Bitlord and Bitcomet are blocked by a lot of trackers. DC++ was more trouble than it was worth the last time I tried it.

adventure_of_link · Post by **adventure_of_link** » Sat Nov 18, 2006 9:37 pm

I personally use BitComet (Windows) and Azureus (Linux) for my torrenting needs.

Demios · Post by **Demios** » Sat Nov 18, 2006 9:59 pm

Az also lets you select the files you want to download. Full of all the best features, just a memory hog, but how many of you are really using all that memory to it's fullest? I don't remember ever maxing out my 4 gigs or even going over two gigs ever.

funkyass · Post by **funkyass** » Sat Nov 18, 2006 10:10 pm

BF2 gets up there.

I use utorrent, and it lets me select files too.

ReRuss · Post by **ReRuss** » Sat Nov 18, 2006 10:25 pm

µTorrent if you need individual files (is able)

BitTornado is great

FrostWire is alright (but requires Sun Java , in case some hate Sun Java)

franpa · Post by **franpa** » Sun Nov 19, 2006 7:02 am

bitcomet and emule is what i use.

MisterJones · Post by **MisterJones** » Sun Nov 19, 2006 7:32 am

I keep switching between utorrent, kceasy and emule.

kevman · Post by **kevman** » Mon Nov 20, 2006 3:29 am

Another Bittorrent Client is what the official client should be: easy, small and nice. It can take about 40 meg of ram, though, which is about a third of Azureus (Java ftl).

But, damn, the official one sucks.

Best P2P system by far, is WTB.

fo real.

SquareHead · Post by **SquareHead** » Mon Nov 20, 2006 7:47 am

Just tried uTorrent. Goddamn its hard to believe how small it is and how well it works.

Post by **Agozer** » Mon Nov 20, 2006 2:15 pm

kevman wrote: Best P2P system by far, is WTB.

fo real.

Oh yes.

kode54 · Post by **kode54** » Mon Nov 20, 2006 3:08 pm

ReRuss wrote:µTorrent if you need individual files (is able)

BitComet does this, and also allegedly reports itself as a full seed to the tracker when it completes downloading the selected set of files. I only have hearsay from a few user accounts on a closed torrent site that recently banned it, and no objective tests to prove whether or not it does it. (Oh wow, so the server's torrent stats report a complete download that wasn't actually complete, which isn't so bad. Now, if it also reported this person as a seed in stats, or in scrapes by other clients, causing real seeds to leave... Moo.)

...

Still BitTorrent. And occasionally eMule for really old stuff. (PS. If you're feeling sneaky, you can configure your eMule client to use a different pair of ports for TCP and UDP communication, and you think your ISP is filtering P2P crap but isn't smart enough to use packet matching algorithms instead of throttling specific ports.)

And then there's this DC hub that some friends run that's always full of lots of stuff that I'm never overly eager to download, and sometimes I feel remotely guilty because I don't share anything. I don't use this or any other hubs with any regularity.

casualsax3 · Post by **casualsax3** » Mon Nov 20, 2006 6:52 pm

Soulseek, or Nicotine if you're in linuxland.

alexz721 · Post by **alexz721** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 9:08 am

utorrent for torrenting, eMule, DC++ when on campus, and occasional other sources.

lockharte · Post by **lockharte** » Wed Nov 22, 2006 10:20 pm

surprised no one has mentioned ares galaxy

Bent · Post by **Bent** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 1:38 am

lockharte wrote:surprised no one has mentioned ares galaxy

Original Poster wrote:So, Ares, Limewire and Morpheus just don't cut it anymore.

Clements · Post by **Clements** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 4:43 am

I just thought I'll add this here: I just tried Azureus 3 beta - what a shitheap. I am using uTorrent from now on.