Which is the best Gnutella client for Windows?
 

Time for a new poll... much changed since the last poll!

http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...&threadid=7922

As usual vote for the client you like most! :)

Morgwen

What's wrong with you, you started this poll 10 min after I started the poll about AudioGalaxy, and then you didn't even give the option of AG. :( Do you feel so threathen by us? :confused: If so tell us and we will start looking for some other p2p site.

you're in the frong forum, this is about Gnutella + Gnutella clients.

AUDIOGALAXY IS NO GNUTELLA CLIENT!

And this is not the first poll I started here, I don´t fear AG or something else...

What is wrong with you?

Morgwen

So I changed the question now that all people can see I ask ONLY for Gnutella clients...

Morgwen

Threathen?
 

My dear friend. :) You have been on my case sence i sign up here, You got the Gnutella on everything, huu. Renember we living in a free democracy, and we have free speech. Or do we not? I haven't used any faul language, and if I offende you by using the word "AUDIOGALAXY", though luck!! I read the userguid and nothing says that we can not talk about any other p2p system..
So chill out!!!:D

In a few weeks even you will understand difference between Gnutella and other filesharing systems, chill out.

Re: Threathen?
 

No, but you should try to stay on topic. This thread (and poll) is about Gnutella clients, sorry but AudioGalaxy just isn't one of those.

just to get this thread back on topic
 

I'm having a hard time deciding. The latest Bearshare, Gnucleus, and Shareaza all work very well for me. Recently, I'm searching, downloading, and uploading to a good variety of other clients on all of them. except for Morpheus - which I have yet to download anything from no matter how hard I try. A friend of mine seems to have no trouble with that, so maybe it's just tough luck on my part?
I honestly have not tried Phex, though...although I will now feel compelled to :D

"I honestly have not tried Phex, though...although I will now feel compelled to"

You just should ;)

Phex may look not as advanced as the major clients, but I do get good results from it.

Got to vote Shareza
 

This one definately get's the thumbs up! More feature and no spyware. Best for the intelligent users. It took me a long time to find a good replacement for gnotella! Happy again!:)

By the way Morgwen.... you alerted me to this on a post somewhere.
Thanks!

Links?
 

I'm not sure if it's possible with a poll, but if it is, maybe you could make all the names in the poll link to their respective homepages. This way newbies coming here looking for a client can just look at the poll and click on the one they want (or the one with the most votes).

It looks pretty evenly split so far between Bearshare, Limewire, Shareaza, and Xolox. :cool:

Re: Links?
 

Good idea but it is disabled...

Morgwen

Re: Which is the best Gnutella client for Windows?
 

No doubt,
Shareaza. Its one of these programs where you have the
control over that app.

Its easy for beginner but it has enough settings to tweak for *pros*.

+ They implemented the GWebcache :)

I still use Gnucleus because of it's OpenSource Status !! :cool:

Open source doesn´t mean that the prog is better or not...

Morgwen

Amen brother!

But if it is opensource you can go improve it ;)

I know I am not against open source clients, but I use the best client it doesn´t matter if open source or not...

Morgwen

You can also rip it off and make it worse (Morpheus).
So you're saying non-open source clients can't be improved?

No he means that everybody with coding skills can "improve" it, right Paradog?

Morgwen

Yeah Morgwen,
Thats what I meant.
So I guess one of the best clients is Bearshare.
I guess you arent using it, are you? :D

Gnucleus is my favorite.It has all I need and very easy and a very unique style.I also like Phex.I never use clients with spyware remember that now ;)

Qtrax Max
 

Have you guys checked out Qtrax Max? I was able to download 30 files in less than two hours and often at speeds of 40kb. The best rate I have gotten with other programs is 5kb. They have a very simple user interface and a cool feature that is called popularity. The higher the number, the faster the download.

I think you should check it out and give your opinion.

LimeWire will be blocking QtraxMax in the next version.

Block by Limewire
 

What is that all about? So does that mean that the Limewire nodes will not be accessible? Did Qtrax Max **** someone off?

It's flooding the network with queries and hammering clients with download requests every few seconds. Bearshare and I believe also gnucleus are planning to do something about it, too (according to my knowledge, Bearshare already blocks QtraxMax). I read some posting on the GDF, that the QtraxMax people would throttle requeries / download requests in the versions to come but until they update, they will probably be blocked by more and more clients (except for Morpheus, since Streamcast is probably neither aware of any problems gnutella has nor able to do something about it).

Thanks. Guess that explains why they are so fast. I'll make hay while the sun shines.

I like all Gnutella clients because no matter how small they are they still let you download and share files and some people like different features than others do.

I would think that these polls would be getting A LOT of ttention but they do not seem to :(

Why Have I never heard of Musicom Syfonic nor Cultivator before?

Cultiv8tor has not been released yet. The releasement date is a mistery :). But you can ask Mike about it.

About Syfonic, the first time I heard about it was when he registered here and posted it.

Ivan
"In the dark we make a brighter light"

What other ones are there?Cuz I think there are more...

Most of them are just clones of other clients, like Aqualime. There's a list of the Gnucleus clones at Gnucleus.net.

Ivan
"In the dark we make a brighter light"

Aqualime's cool.Which means that limewire is good too.And there is also Ares...(Possible limewire source code rip):confused: But Maybe someone should make a list of every single gnutella client there ever was!:D :cool:

Please, send me you clients....... LOL
 

That is what I trying with the post in: Good or bad Gnutella Clients, Please tell us.. Everybody the is having (working or have a working copy) a client please go there and tell us about your client. ;) :D :)

I like Limewire... no make that Shareaza
 

I am a long-time Limewire user but to be honest I like Shareaza more than any I have tried... I seem to get more search results with it although the download results are not better than Limewire or any other (client) I have tried. The reality appears to be the Gnutella net appears not to be working as well as it did even a few months ago... I think the amount of sharing has been curtailed due to the publicity surrounding MPAA, RIAA et al.

I like this saying someone said on zeropaid.com .:) It's this:

"Everytime Limewire takes one step closer Shareaza puts them farther behind"

It's somethin' like that...:cool:

I have to agree Shareaza seems the best out of all the gnutella's

No Mac poll
 

Not that anybody cares on here but me and maybe a handful of others but I think the best Gnutella client for the Mac is iSwipe.
http://www.hillmanminx.com
Not that the Gnutella client is all that great. I mean its good but not Shareaza (PC) good. Whats cool about it is that it searchs bunchs of networks all at once.

If your a true leech of leechs than this is the proggy elite for you.

Stupid statement, since the LimeWire developers don't even try comparing to Shareaza and their current focus seems slightly different from Shareaza's. For example they have not even started working on partial filesharing and I haven't seen much effort put into gnutella weblinks either.

Shareaza has some new features but most of them are effectively not working since 95% of the gnutella network don't support them. Partial file-sharing is nice, but when nobody but Shareaza users are sharing partial files, it simply doesn't increase performance. And gnutella weblinks are fine too, but with a weblink you can't download anything from new Morpheus (which will make up for at least half of GNET and which doesn't even support SHA1 hashes as it seems).

I like Limewire when it works. And have been using Shareaza for a week. It looks good, but most of the files I d/l end up being "unsafe". I'm not sure what that is about. I tried Bearshare and immediately deleted it because of all the crap it installed. Also tried xolox but it never worked.

Unsafe files
 

I'd say that 99% of the unsafe files are actualy fine. This is just a bug with how shareaza works with win 2K, I believe. Check the Shareaza forums. I've checked files which were unsafe and all the one's I've downloaded have been fine. Stick with Shareaza and wait for the next the 1.6 release. I have the virus protection as well as a firewall to protect me from most viruses and rogue executable codes so I am confident that the unsafe files are actually fine.

Good luck.

I always thought that was a Shareaza feature just wanting folks to be careful... I do not think that the program is examining a file in any way. I was in the IT group at a company for a while and I can't tell you how many folks would read a memo about not opening an unknown file... would turn around and do just that and then call complaining that their virus protection program kept popping up telling them they had a virus.... they could have cared less that they had a virus... they were annoyed that they were getting a pop-up telling them that the file was infected.... go figure.

Unsafe files
 

By the way, Shareaza 1.6 is released today!!! You shouldn't see too many issues with the unsafe files anyway. I believe what shareaza does is compare the files to SHA1 integrity. http://www.w3.org/PICS/DSig/SHA1_1_0.html . There was some reason why the files did not did not match to their hash codes and they were deemed unsafe. I believe it is fixed in 1.6. Anyway there is http://bitzi.com/ which is a meta database for files and these applications will compare the integrity of the files to what is listed in their database. Because shareaza and many of the newer releases of P2P applications download in partial files from many peers there needs to be an authentication on whether the files are complete. These are my opinions of what is happening. Download 1.6! It seems to work really well so far!

Good luck and keep sharing!

Gnucleus!
 

I must agree I like Sharaza, but I myself prefer Gnucleus..

The advanced tweeks can be done through editing the source code, since it's a very good opensource client that contains NO bundled crap or ads :D

Shareaza
 

Wow, look at that.. Three posts up Shareaza 1.6 is released and now Shareaza 1.8 is out :)

Shareaza forum.
 

Latest and greatest on http:/www.Shareaza.com/forum. This forum is dead.

Re: Shareaza forum.
 

It is not dead... at all.

Ivan
"In the dark we make a brighter light"