Phex 0.7.1 released.
 

Phex 0.7.1 fixes problems with corrupted class files causing drawing problems and other strange behavior of the user interface in Phex 0.7.

This new Phex release is packed with new features and brings an improved interface look.
Changes in this version include:

• New multi-source download engine.
• Minimize to system-tray on Windows platforms.
• Filtering of search results by media type.
• Download candidate rating.
• Extensive table configuration to hide/show, auto-resize and sort columns.
• Interface settings are saved on exit.
• Big performance improvements.

macXster has been /. ?
 

Mac Users:

Congratulations to the MacPhex users! The site has been suspended by Apple for excessive bandwidth use! :eek: To make things worse the redirecting url macxster.n3.net will be down for a few days. When the site comes back online, you will still be able to go to it via: http://homepage.mac.com/macxster/index.html or you can go now and marvel at the temporally suspended sign. You can still download MacPhex 0.7.1 from here but the update program will not work until the normal site is back.

Any one who would like to help by mirroring please send an email to macxster@mac.com. I'll keep you updated to when we have more mirrors and / or the site comes back online.

Update
Site's back and we're in the process of buying a new server.
Update 2
We have our new server and domain: macxster.com

If I were you I would mirror it on gnutella, and at the same time make gnutella a contender to the internet. (multi-source download, huge bandwith savings, this web site is powered by thousands of volunteers...)

Dream on!

The new Phex is cool. It is good that I can shose 56k moden and isdn as a connection, because I have only ISDN and it would be like lying to the other user if I can only shose DLS as the slowest connection.
The Only thing I don't like, are the little Icons next to the "Gnutella Net", "Search" Button and the other Buttons.
An Option to ignore people who don't share any files will be good.

Very Nice - Only a few things:
 

First it used to be that Remove Download would not delete the downloaded file if it was done ! I just found out the hard way now it does ! - this is a mayor bummer ...

Second the bandwidth usage in the network tab used to show the network traffic now it shows the combined traffic
maybe it would be nice to keep it separated ? Or separated as incoming/outgoing traffic ? With long-term average ?

I used to be able to push the program to search again by use of the 'Stop Search' 'Start Search' buttons now one of them is gone -Maybe it would be nice to have that type of control still ?


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Otherwise great improvement of the programs efficiency ! I really think it gets candidates to send more easily ... is that because it use some form of multicast for the shared content ???

Thanks Guys !!!

Correct myself ...
 

After reading in the other Tread I checked and found the removed download wasn't really gone it was just in the Phex Program Folder ...

Much Better !
BTW I am using Sun JSDK 1.4 on Mandrake 8.2 i586

cheers

Other curiosities
 

Why doesn't the download start at 0 ?
I have seen it a few times now it starts wit 1MB skipping the first meg - so I cant preview the content till I find a second server or at least get another chance to connect , why ?

Also I think it would now soon be nice and necessary to start developing some kind of verify and repair mode in which instead of a download a system could ask some md5sums of segments to search and find problems and then if it found the difference request that specific segment ...

I think this will be necessary because we just increased the number of chances to get faulty files now its time to talk about adding some solutions...

Cheers!

I like the new version – especially swarming – but I miss the retry counter and the log feature. Could they be reimplemented (at least the counter) ?

Two small bugs :
- The "Abort upload" button is always greyed out, wether an upload is selected or not.
- All my downloads have a "queued" status whereas they actually have no candidates. Is it a bug or only new terminology ? :)

Thanks

Bug in 0.7.1 with not being able to connect?
 

For some reason after running Phex for several hours, it can no longer connect to _any_ Gnutella hosts. As well it just keeps spawning new processes that never seem to die. I'm up to about 500 right now, after 5hours of uptime, and I've seen it go as high as 1000. I have to quit Phex and restart it then it seems fine for a few more hours afterwards. Has anyone else noticed this?

Re: Bug in 0.7.1 with not being able to connect?
 

I noticed it after 2 hours of uptime. I dont know where it comes from. I was thinking my ISP has blocked the ports.