I hate eMule.

[Az]

I've never EVER EVER been able to download anything from it. As I enter, I share, like a good boy, all of the stuff I've got. And what do I get in return? Nada.

[muxec]

Ming why do you close my warez thread while this one is still open...

Azazel, i can download and burn it on CD for you

[Az]

Because I am not talking about copyright infringement here, silly boy.

Muxec, this is a matter of principle.

Here kids, take all the stuff you need!

[Zero]

emule sucks, but if you know a *certain site* than its not that bad.

Besides, that *certain site* is the best place for finding burnable console/PC games... so you really have no choice but to use eMule.

[muxec]

Use eDonkey instead

[Kassiopeia]

Like Asher said in that another thread, eMule is not for instant gratification. If you don't have the patience to wait, say, a week for a file, don't bother. The trick is putting several files on download at once, so that all those small trickles combine into a continuous big stream of bytes.

[Az]

well, **** it, then.

What other p2p software is around?

[Paul Hanson]

Originally posted by Kassiopeia
Like Asher said in that another thread, eMule is not for instant gratification. If you don't have the patience to wait, say, a week for a file, don't bother. The trick is putting several files on download at once, so that all those small trickles combine into a continuous big stream of bytes.

Now, I'm a patient man, but there is no way in hell I am sitting for a week waiting for a 200mb file to download, when my broadband connection should be capable of downloading it in a few hours, tops. I find it amazing that, even with several hundred sources for a file I'm trying to download, that I can never get more than about 0.5k/s out of eMule.

[Solver]

Edonkey is the same system as Emule, and you will get the same results - only the GUI is differnet.

I have only used Edonkey on rare occasions, and I found that, for a download to begin it might take an hour or two, and 7-8 hours to get to normal speed. My usual numbers are like 5 kb/s down, and 300 kb/s up - people love downloading from me, I trust.

And yes, it's annoying to wait for so long. I can get a megabyte in under 10 seconds normally.

I can recommend DC++ for p2p - I have switched to it in the recent months. Upsides:

1. No queue system, and pretty much free will for you to do what you want.
2. A ton of content. By this, I don't mean the latest pirated games or software. DC++ is actually great for getting rare and legal content. I have found some interesting pictures and docs there... and quite a number of "gems". For instance, some of my favorite Soviet movies produced ~35 years ago in decent DivX format. Also, I am now the proud owner of the USSR Anthem MP3.

[Az]

eMule v0.29a Statistics
Transfer
Session ULL Ratio: 30.84 : 1

[Kassiopeia]

Session ULL 1:1.30
Cumulative ULL 1.1:10

Edonkey is the same system as Emule, and you will get the same results - only the GUI is differnet.

And it's bloaty, and it's got ads (iirc), and it's closed source. But the results shouldn't vary, yes.

Now, I'm a patient man, but there is no way in hell I am sitting for a week waiting for a 200mb file to download, when my broadband connection should be capable of downloading it in a few hours, tops.

I usually download several ~200 megabyte files simultaniously, and if I have 10 downloads at 2.0 kB/s, my bandwidth is quite taken. Yes, it takes a week or two, but I _will_ get them sooner or later, and when I do, I'll have several files finished.

[Locutus]

Originally posted by Paul Hanson
Now, I'm a patient man, but there is no way in hell I am sitting for a week waiting for a 200mb file to download, when my broadband connection should be capable of downloading it in a few hours, tops. I find it amazing that, even with several hundred sources for a file I'm trying to download, that I can never get more than about 0.5k/s out of eMule.

Exactly

I just use Kazaa. I don't get why people seem to complain so much about it. Works brilliantly for me (though I admit I don't download much).

[Zopperoni]

Originally posted by Azazel
What other p2p software is around?

Try Bit Torrent.

[Locutus]

Originally posted by Kassiopeia
if I have 10 downloads at 2.0 kB/s, my bandwidth is quite taken.

At 20 kb/s your bandwidth is taken? I can usually handle 20 times that amount and still have some room to spare for other apps...

I thought Finland was ahead of most of Europe in ICT...

[General Ludd]

eDonkey is something you should leave going in the background while you do other things. Leave it on 24/7 if you can, and have a dozen downloads going at once. The longer it's running the faster it'll go, as you slowly work your way up the queues. I just started up eDonkey for the morning and I'm geting about 10kb/s By the end of the day I'll probably be geting atleast 50kb/s, and posibly upwards of 160+ (that's what I was geting last night, but I finsihed a couple downloads since then) I don't leave it on 24/7 anymore because I sleep in the same room as my computer now, but I do have atleast half a dozen files going at any one time, and I finish something every day.


It also depends on how many leeches have attached themselves to a file, and how many dedicated sharers there are. New releases usually go really fast, because there's alot of people sharing it and the leeches haven't always discovered it yet. I can usually get new releases (use your imagination of what ) in a day or two. Likewise, porn tends to go pretty fast aswell, since that's always popular.