P2P

formelyknow as cybruinformelyknow as cybruin
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in Mac Software edited January 2014
Ok, i know some of you are touchy on this(record company workers perhaps) but which is the best P2P client for OSX? I've tried direct Connect, its ok but i want something that allows me to search without scrolling through tonsa of users first. Limewire is just pants so any URLS would be a nice xmas pressie.

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  • Reply 1 of 19
    proud ibook owner 2k2proud ibook owner 2k2 Posts: 1,011member
    [quote]Originally posted by formelyknow as CybRuin:

    <strong>Ok, i know some of you are touchy on this(record company workers perhaps) but which is the best P2P client for OSX? I've tried direct Connect, its ok but i want something that allows me to search without scrolling through tonsa of users first. Limewire is just pants so any URLS would be a nice xmas pressie.</strong><hr></blockquote>



    By far i think that Direct Connect is the best and its the fastest. Limewire is Java based and it sux.. so... thats my input,
  • Reply 2 of 19
    cubedudecubedude Posts: 1,556member
    <a href="http://xlife.org/acquisition.php"; target="_blank">http://xlife.org/acquisition.php</a>;



    Acquisition, all you need.
  • Reply 3 of 19
    ibrowseibrowse Posts: 1,749member
    Some people have had problems with Acquisition, myself included, but Direct Connect works fine (for me) You don't have to scroll through a huge list of users, you can search in DC and it searches all Users connected to all the Hubs that you are connected to, and displays the results in a way somewhat similar to how the search in Finder (Jag) works.



    EDIT: Pirating is bad. Remember that.



    [ 12-24-2002: Message edited by: iBrowse ]</p>
  • Reply 4 of 19
    trevormtrevorm Posts: 841member
    [quote]Originally posted by CubeDude:

    <strong><a href="http://xlife.org/acquisition.php"; target="_blank">http://xlife.org/acquisition.php</a>;



    Acquisition, all you need.</strong><hr></blockquote>



    Acqusition is quite promising but I have no such luck. I last used it a few months ago and it was no good.



    has it improved?
  • Reply 5 of 19
    trevormtrevorm Posts: 841member
    [quote]Originally posted by Proud iBook Owner 2k2:

    <strong>



    By far i think that Direct Connect is the best and its the fastest. Limewire is Java based and it sux.. so... thats my input,</strong><hr></blockquote>



    Its funny but I used to have fantastic luck with limewire. It actualy worked really well, but havent been sucsessful for a long time.
  • Reply 6 of 19
    formelyknow as cybruinformelyknow as cybruin Posts: 31member
    cheers for the info, i'll give Acquisition a try and see how i get on with it.

    direct Connect is quick, and i see from some of the listings its a handy way of using warez i'll be giving that another shot.

    Anyways Have a happy christmas all.
  • Reply 7 of 19
    formelyknow as cybruinformelyknow as cybruin Posts: 31member
    Just tried Acquisition and it works for me.

    nice little P2P client.
  • Reply 8 of 19
    tigerwoods99tigerwoods99 Posts: 2,633member
    Acquisition sucks ass. Limewire is light years better. Direct Connect serves most of my P2P needs.



    Also check out KDXClient & KDXServer.
  • Reply 9 of 19
    emaneman Posts: 7,204member
    [quote]Originally posted by TigerWoods99:

    <strong>Acquisition sucks ass. Limewire is light years better. Direct Connect serves most of my P2P needs.



    Also check out KDXClient & KDXServer. </strong><hr></blockquote>



    I think you've got it wrong. Limewire sucks ass. Acquisition is light years better.
  • Reply 10 of 19
    idudeidude Posts: 352member
    I've been using Acquisition for a while. I seem to think the previous versions were better. Many files I try to download hang up at 97.7kb. I also have a hard time connecting to servers. Two versions ago, I connected to a MINIMUM of 50 servers. Now I am hard pressed to connect to 10. Still better than Limewire. I've never tried Direct Connect.
  • Reply 11 of 19
    ghost_user_nameghost_user_name Posts: 22,667member
    [quote]Originally posted by iDude:

    <strong>Many files I try to download hang up at 97.7kb.</strong><hr></blockquote>That's a problem with the recent networking code for Limewire. Rather than opening a steady connection, Limewire now opens brief windows of 97.7kb when downloading. The newer versions of Acquisition work around that.



    See the xlife forums here for info on more recent builds:

    <a href="http://www.sciforums.com/f72/s/forumdisplay.php?forumid=73"; target="_blank">http://www.sciforums.com/f72/s/forumdisplay.php?forumid=73</a>;
  • Reply 12 of 19
    t'hain esh kelcht'hain esh kelch Posts: 1,274member
    I used MacPhex a year ago and it was quite good at results, but had a very slow GUI..



    But now I only use Xnap, and I must say that this is the best thing since Audio Galaxy.. I can find almost anything I want, sometimes better than on the old AG, and the gui is fast for a java app..
  • Reply 13 of 19
    thuh freakthuh freak Posts: 2,664member
    if a body is willing to go through manually hacking at source and building dcgui/dclib, i think that is a pretty sweet program. it goes into direct connect. the reason i prefer it over the official neo-modus release is spidering; never underestimate the power of a spider. [spidering is the ability to download the same file from multiple servers at once, resulting in quicker download speed; 100 megs from 1 person @ 1MB/s is 100 seconds. 100 megs from 10 people @ 1 MB/s is 10 seconds.].
  • Reply 14 of 19
    cubedudecubedude Posts: 1,556member
    [quote]Originally posted by trevorM:

    <strong>



    Acqusition is quite promising but I have no such luck. I last used it a few months ago and it was no good.



    has it improved?</strong><hr></blockquote>



    It's great. I'm still using 0.65, as I just upgraded to Jaguar and haven't updated it yet.



    Acquisition can take a while to find others, but once it has everything moves smoothly.
  • Reply 15 of 19
    emaneman Posts: 7,204member
    [quote]Originally posted by Brad:

    <strong>That's a problem with the recent networking code for Limewire. Rather than opening a steady connection, Limewire now opens brief windows of 97.7kb when downloading. The newer versions of Acquisition work around that.



    See the xlife forums here for info on more recent builds:

    <a href="http://www.sciforums.com/f72/s/forumdisplay.php?forumid=73"; target="_blank">http://www.sciforums.com/f72/s/forumdisplay.php?forumid=73</a></strong><hr></blockquote>;



    Thanks for the link, Brad. I have to try the latest build because the last version of Acquistion hasn't been as good.
  • Reply 16 of 19
    ghost_user_nameghost_user_name Posts: 22,667member
    If you do get the newer versions of Acquisition, EmAn, be sure to note that the developer strongly recommends using the Java 1.4.1 DPs. Download the Java update from <a href="http://connect.apple.com"; target="_blank">Apple Developer Connection</a>.



    [ 12-26-2002: Message edited by: Brad ]</p>
  • Reply 17 of 19
    spartspart Posts: 2,060member
    I'm surprised no one pointed out that this actually belongs in Software, not GD.
  • Reply 18 of 19
    apap Posts: 29member
    How does Kazaa work on a mac running Virtual PC? Since Kazza is not a very heavy program it should be usable on VPC or what?



    ap
  • Reply 19 of 19
    ghost_user_nameghost_user_name Posts: 22,667member
    KaZaA works just fine in VPC. You are right that it doesn't use a lot of resources.



    True, Spart. Moving to Software...
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