A Good Filesharig Program Besides Kazaa?

[sam71]

Originally posted by The Knife Thrower+22 May 2003 - 15:29--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (The Knife Thrower @ 22 May 2003 - 15:29)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin--MadDog-2000@21 May 2003 - 19:25
The biggest file sharing community is still the Direct Connect network. They have more files than FastTrack and Gnutella combined&#33; If you don&#39;t fint it on there, you can&#39;t find it anywhere else&#33; Both clients are spyware free but are not as easy to use as KLite.

DC++ 0.24 :
http://dcplusplus.sourceforge.net/

Direct Connect 1.0 :
http://www.neo-modus.com/

Both of those are shit. I haven&#39;t found any good files on those networks. [/b][/quote]
Why is it that I have more people downloading off me then me downloading off them on kazaa, or dc.=(

[Ardor]

Originally posted by sam71+25 May 2003 - 21:25--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (sam71 @ 25 May 2003 - 21:25)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>

Originally posted by -The Knife Thrower@22 May 2003 - 15:29
<!--QuoteBegin--MadDog-2000

@21 May 2003 - 19:25
The biggest file sharing community is still the Direct Connect network. They have more files than FastTrack and Gnutella combined&#33; If you don&#39;t fint it on there, you can&#39;t find it anywhere else&#33; Both clients are spyware free but are not as easy to use as KLite.

DC++ 0.24 :
http://dcplusplus.sourceforge.net/

Direct Connect 1.0 :
http://www.neo-modus.com/

Both of those are shit. I haven&#39;t found any good files on those networks.

Why is it that I have more people downloading off me then me downloading off them on kazaa, or dc.=([/b][/quote]
because the Direct-Connect World is based upon some important rules.

1) you must share&#33; When using DC++ , many hubs require that you open 1 slot per hub, and share a minimum amount of files. There is also no setting to control upload, to prevent leeching.
2) the protocol is not designed that well for some connections. As your upload increases, the download starts to suffer. This often happens with cable/dsl connections.
3) DC does not support multiple source downloading, unlike kazaa. So while you benefit from the collective speeds on kazaa, you do not on DC, which can result in slower speed.

I&#39;m sure there are more reasons, but that&#39;s what I came up with...

[nostalgia]

I tried Shareaza, beautiful interface but al lot of queing. E-mule and E-donkey? very slow and you&#39;ll have to wait in line for a long time. As a sort of back-up I&#39;m using WinMX. Spywarefree, adwarefree. A little tricky to configure but I managed and sometimes a song I need is there to grab.
Clean I-mesh wasn&#39;t so clean after all and Clean Limewire was good but you couldn&#39;t see the progress in Kb, only in %.

[nanotek]

direct connect rocks so does sloulseek :found some really old techno stuff there