can anyone tell me what is the best file sharing program?

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can anyone tell me what is the best file sharing program under Linux? to get mp3s+videos+animes...thanks in advance...
my priority is fastest download speed..
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arkane · l33t Joined: 30 Apr 2002 Posts: 918 Location: Phoenix, AZ

That's a rough one really...

Gnutella isn't that quick really, but it's MASSIVE. OpenFT is nice, I got some great speeds with it (cable modem) however it's kinda limited because of the amount of people using it right now. OpenNAP seems great for music, but not much else. I haven't used any of the others.

Youda · Posted: Wed Aug 07, 2002 1:13 am Post subject: Filesharing programs!

I use dc-gui and that works fine! Great speeds!

You could also try qt-dcgui!

happy emergeing! :wink:

gfunkmonk · Posted: Wed Aug 07, 2002 1:28 am Post subject:

I use Lopster, it can connect to the WinMX and OpenNap servers...

Tuxisuau · Posted: Wed Aug 07, 2002 2:13 am Post subject:

I like mldonkey. I have to limit its download rate cause it literally saturates my downstream.
If i had 10MB or bandwitch, i'm sure i would be able to download some movies at 10MB/s with this program.
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AutoBot · l33t Joined: 22 Apr 2002 Posts: 968 Location: Usually Out

I really dislike edonkey/mldonkey as they are the most impersonal way to share files, I like to use a p2p program that you can actually in an easy way talk to the person downloading from you or your downloading from.

Another vote for dctc/dc_gui, which by means of multi-threaded downloads can also max my 300KB/s download speed and still maintain some personality.

.: On a sidenote I hope your not an online gamer if you use edonkey/mldonkey, you get flooded with so many searches/connection attemps even after closing the program your ping/latency will in fact be doubled and sometimes tripled for extended amounts of time.
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pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20067

Anyone have any issues emerging lopster?
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delta407 · Posted: Wed Aug 07, 2002 3:55 am Post subject:

Wine + KazaaLite (KaZaA minus [spy/ad]ware).
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virus · Posted: Wed Aug 07, 2002 4:09 am Post subject:

I also like dctc+dc_gui... somewhat... they seem to be unnessesarily cpu-heavy though... when initializing fileshareDB or joining a hub (building userlist.... prolly some lame n² sorting etc.)

When I run it I usually have a total up/down netload of 1MByte/second.
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therobot · Apprentice Joined: 07 Jun 2002 Posts: 256 Location: Canada

For music, I throw in a vote for soulseek, there's a python version, although I can't remember what its called, just search on google.
But, I've been hearing that the soulseek network is down, but it's worth a shot...

Russki · Posted: Wed Aug 07, 2002 7:33 am Post subject:

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BonezTheGoon · Posted: Wed Aug 07, 2002 5:06 pm Post subject:

Well previously (but as I said I haven't used it in months now that I have been with Gentoo) it was just an instance of IE with tweaks. On my Win2K box if I had Kazaa up and killed explorer.exe in my tasklist processes the Kazaa died instantly. If Kazaa has actually made it's own client that can exist without IE I will be very happy to use it without IE, I guess I was just working from old information and assumed, incorrectly, that nothing had changed. Thanks for the info, again are you able to run Kazaa without native dll's now that it is it's own client apart from IE?

Thanks alot for the wake-up call!

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Lush · n00b Joined: 13 Jul 2002 Posts: 6

I like Soulseek for mp3s, although I use the Windows client since the Python version doesn't support uploading

For other stuff I use mldonkey. The multi source download feature works really well for popular files. Also it's pretty good at locating rare files.

line72 · Apprentice Joined: 13 Jun 2002 Posts: 212

openft rocks, i've been downloading stuff at 300k !! I love downloading a 700 meg file in an hour! It needs more people though !!!

strc · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 07 Jul 2002 Posts: 77

Well after reading some recommendations, I decided to try out mldonkey, but for some reason, that ebuild is masked (!) Does anybody know what exactly I should do to get this program (another edonkey frontend, perhaps?)

True · Posted: Wed Aug 07, 2002 7:51 pm Post subject:

I'm amazed noone's mentioned 'giFT'. Maybe it should've been kept a secret, oh well..

(BTW, remember to ogg)

klieber · Posted: Wed Aug 07, 2002 8:26 pm Post subject:

This has been discussed extensively here. Locking thread.

--kurt
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