Shareaza Betrayed Me!

[NotoriousBIC]

Originally posted by aserty@28 December 2003 - 21:11
Shareaza is faster then Shadows client for torrents because it downloads off of the other netoworks at the same time.

It cannot download from Bittorrent and Emule at the same time.
It's impossible due to the way Bittorrent works, as it's rather random in what parts of the file(s) it gets.

What it CAN do is RESUME from Bittorrent and vica versa.

So it's good for finishing those files where the tracker went upside-down or all the seeders left.

[Jonne]

it can, you just need to enter the right hash of the file (or get a torrent that was made with torrentaid). (but by the time you get to the end of the ed2k queue your download will already have finished...)

[Mavol]

shareaza takes years to connect to G2!!!

[Desert Eagle]

Yeah, Shareaza does suck. I tried it for a couple of days and then uninstalled it. KL is much faster. They may fool noobs into thinking they have great speeds with the kilobytes/kilobits thing, but I know better.

[BlacKnightSC]

It really depends on what files your downloading...some of my downloads on shareaza go like shit at times (especially when u try to download off of the edonkey network, will only use overnet for it from now on), but i was getting like 200-300 kb with this iso i was downloading through bittorrent. Course it also depends on other things like the torrent u get, ur settings, etc. right now im getting about 120kb per sec with 1 download off it.

Id say after 3 months of using it and comparing it to ABC for torrents, their both good and i sometimes get higher speeds through shareaza. No BS, and i know the diff between kb and KB for ur info.

[supernova]

Long Time Reader, 1st Time Poster........................!!!!!

SHAREAZA ROCKS 4 TORRENTS!!!!!

ps.
LONG LIVE KAZAA LITE

[supersonic]

I tried shareaza since klite was shutdown by shareman..
It all depends on the kind of server (ed2k) u connect to, the file(s) you request and your credit (how much uploading) you have...
Shareaza sucks sometimes, but other times I got some files that you can never find in kazaa. Sometimes the speeds are really high like 21.xx KILOBYTES. Again, it all depends on several factors that affect the speed. I never got a corrupted file in shareaza, where in kazaa I tried to download medal of honour 17 times (trying all of the available downloads) and none of them were Medal of honour(either Red Alert or corrupted .zips/.rars and .aces). I found kazaa really fast like hell in mp3,especially for new songs...I tried to get "out of control" of kazaa for 100 times, but they were all scr33Chy, where in shareaza I downloaded the song in minutes nad it worked from the first time, but it was G2 or G1 I think.
This is imo and I could be totally OFF.

[Stealthspy]

Originally posted by REALITY@2 January 2004 - 00:38
I have had torrents that were swarming with others on the G2 network as well. Though it may be that those same users would also be accessable while using another client as well. Where this may differ is that after completion of the torrent if it is left in the shared folder and the screen for shareaza has had the clear completed clicked then that file may now only be available to swarm with other G2 users.

However it appears shraeaza cannot access all sources for a torrent or has some limitation or bandwidth issues while downloading, perhaps it can only handle so many connections. I say this because I have never had a torrent on shareaza go beyond around 40KB (not kb). I have tested downloading the same torrents at the same time using shareaza and shadow, the shareaza torrents would max out at about 40KB if lucky while the shadow torrent was around 150KB, thats proof...

Yes, that bug is being looked into. It appears something happened with the optimized BitTorrent piece picker in 1.8.10.8. We are trying to fix that ASAP.

Ok, Kazaa Lite is faster, but I use Shareaza for software... It's a really good program to find working and virus-free warez!!! 

Unlike FastTrack, many excellent and reliable sites such as PeerWeb find the cream of the crop (the verified and fast downloads) on Shareaza's G2 Network. Try it out - I promise you won't be dissapointed.

Shareaza isn't a network, it's like trillian. There's no "trillian" network. It just connects to other ones... So if there is only one guy on Shareaza, he can still download, duh!

That's correct. Shareaza also gives you choice of which network you want to connect to.

It cannot download from Bittorrent and Emule at the same time.
It's impossible due to the way Bittorrent works, as it's rather random in what parts of the file(s) it gets.

What it CAN do is RESUME from Bittorrent and vica versa.

So it's good for finishing those files where the tracker went upside-down or all the seeders left.

No, that is incorrect. With aid.com]TorrentAid Torrents, shareaza can grab the tigertree/SHA1/MD5 and multisource. It is becoming increasingly common now.

Yeah, Shareaza does suck.  I tried it for a couple of days and then uninstalled it.  KL is much faster.  They may fool noobs into thinking they have great speeds with the kilobytes/kilobits thing, but I know better.

We don't "fool noobs". b is the standard way of measuring network traffic. B is the standard way of measuring file size. What's your internet connection rated in? Bits? Well, wouldn't you like to see how much of the Connection your download is untilizing? I know I'd rather see that at first glance rather than try to figure it out through B/s, which I do when I can't use b/s.

And I'll post screenshots of lightning fast MP3 downloads. Just do this for fast downloads:

Start up Shareaza and wait 3 minutes. Check to see if it is connected (home tab/network tab)
Now, Search for a good MP3. Be sure to search in the advanced view (and select search only Gnutella2).
Wait a bit, then sort by sources. Download the one with the most sources.

Have fun listening to the MP3! Probably took you less time to read this post!