OK, I'm new to this so please forgive me if i'm barking up the wrong tree.

I get the impression there are several different Gnutella formats/programms out there. Which one is the best to download? Are they all linked together?


Andrew

here is a good source of info: what you want depends on many things. Most are free so try them out.

http://www.gnutellanews.com/

Check the feedback board if you have a MAC... someone put a review up there for all of them...

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This could be interesting for you:

Furi has a nice feature which i haven´t seen in any other gnutella software yet:

You can add "candidates" to your download files. These are file of exactly the same filesize which are hosted on other servers. So if a download breaks or is impossible, Furi switches to the next host in the candidates-list and continues downloading from there. You can even search for those candidates. This speeds up the downloading process a lot as you don´t have to wait until a certain host gives you the permission to start a download. It works very well, I never had problems with files whiche weren´t the same and had the same filesize.

And as it is a pure java software it will almost surely run on your system as well as on any other, whatever you got.

I think this makes Furi the most advanced gnutella soft. There are other interesting features as well, but mentioning them all would lead to far here.

I've tried Furi, LimeWire, and Gnutella. Furi is the best of the three. I run Windoze and Solaris, I can't get the LimeWire specific or java version to run on Solaris. Furi is great on both boxes, I use the java version on Solaris and the windows specific version on my other machine. The only problem is I can't connect to the default hosts provided by Furi but I added good hosts to my furi.hosts file and no problems. Personally I wouldn't try Bearshare as I heard they put spyware in their package which is a practice I detest.

I believe that this is correct (Spyware in Bearshare). But after you killed the Spyware (I recommend AdAware) it seems to be a reliable good program, so far I can say - I am testing it right now, and am satisfied so far .

FURI Rev 0.6.8 is the BEST.
Runing on a Mac, only two things missing.
1. block on Freeloaders
2. Browse of Servants shared directory.

Download features are GREAT, try it after running others and you won't go back!