<strong>My campus networked has blocked the use of Gnutella, so my question is does anyone know of any Gnutella alternatives? Thanks.</strong><hr></blockquote>
i think you can get around their evil anti-freedom muck, by connecting to non-standard port gnutella servents. also, set your servent to a nonstandard port (anything higher than 5500 and not equal to 6346.) if you search online you might find some active lists of gnutella servents, and possibly some on non standard ports. the way most of those firewall shits work is by blocking port numbers. gnutella was designed to weather the storm tho.
there arent many good alternatives to gnutella on macs tho.
New version just came out, so I have to try it, but the previous one (.61) worked very well (up the connections to 15-20).
It has a cocoa front end, so it runs very fast, but also makes it possible to only be run in OS X. It also lets you specify the port number you want to connect with.
New version just came out, so I have to try it, but the previous one (.61) worked very well (up the connections to 15-20).
It has a cocoa front end, so it runs very fast, but also makes it possible to only be run in OS X. It also lets you specify the port number you want to connect with.</strong><hr></blockquote>
It has a pretty crappy interface, and not many files on the network, but at least I can download something. As far as I can tell, it is one of the few programs that doesn't require you to share files, and it uses an irregular port (6669, I believe).
Just to let you know, I've tried each of these programs with no success: Acquisition, Carracho, Hotline, Direct Connect, iSwippe, KDX, Limewire, Neo, and xNap. Granted, my school's firewall may be different from yours, but that gives you an idea of what doesn't work.
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<strong>My campus networked has blocked the use of Gnutella, so my question is does anyone know of any Gnutella alternatives? Thanks.</strong><hr></blockquote>
LimeWire? or am I breing dim?
Dogcow, have you tried OpenNap? XNap is a client for that.
there arent many good alternatives to gnutella on macs tho.
<a href="http://www.xlife.org/"; target="_blank">Acquisition </a>
New version just came out, so I have to try it, but the previous one (.61) worked very well (up the connections to 15-20).
It has a cocoa front end, so it runs very fast, but also makes it possible to only be run in OS X. It also lets you specify the port number you want to connect with.
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<a href="http://www.xlife.org/"; target="_blank">Acquisition </a>
New version just came out, so I have to try it, but the previous one (.61) worked very well (up the connections to 15-20).
It has a cocoa front end, so it runs very fast, but also makes it possible to only be run in OS X. It also lets you specify the port number you want to connect with.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Acquisitoin is also just a gnutella client.
<strong>But it is a very good gnutella client.</strong><hr></blockquote>
It maybe be good, but it still doesn't work. Xnap will connect but not download files <img src="graemlins/hmmm.gif" border="0" alt="[Hmmm]" />
<a href="http://www.mysternetworks.com/"; target="_blank">Myster</a>
It has a pretty crappy interface, and not many files on the network, but at least I can download something. As far as I can tell, it is one of the few programs that doesn't require you to share files, and it uses an irregular port (6669, I believe).
Just to let you know, I've tried each of these programs with no success: Acquisition, Carracho, Hotline, Direct Connect, iSwippe, KDX, Limewire, Neo, and xNap. Granted, my school's firewall may be different from yours, but that gives you an idea of what doesn't work.