Best Gnutella Client
 

Just wondering what the best Gnutella client other than LimeWire is. I'm having those connection problems with LimeWire and am tired of it. There are a few programs on this board and I just want to know what the best alternative is. Anything that doesn't have spyware or crap like that is good enough for me. Thanks.

Try Bearshare lite: http://www.bearshare.com/lite/

So what's your issue with LW anyway? Did you seek help? We don't often get connection problems for people from oz!

i think im being filtered by my isp because I had great connections all up until 5 days ago. im on an unlimited wireless broadband connection from a new ISP that is selling services from a larger provider called iburst. I've tried everything and asked for help over and over and am really disappointed I can't get LW working

You've only just become a member so it'll be hard for me to track your previous posts. Can you give me a link to your posts so far before you became a forum member.

http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...threadid=36479

I posted here earlier today and sent you a couple of PM's...thanks for the help so far

hmmm a wireless ISP is always worrying. They get much more fees to get bandwidth transferred and might get encouraged to limit P2P activities. It seems your ISP can block individual P2P users http://www.mybroadband.co.za/vb/arch...p/t-16799.html Personally, I would call them and try to talk to a technician that is in the known (you might have to talk to many representatives -- those are usually very uninformed --).

Bonne chance!

I'm on SBC-Yahoo!-DSL and I generally get good performance out of LimeWire PRO. Except that IP Direct Connect is sorta tricky and poorly documented... LimeWire is cross-platform, Windows, Mac, Linux.... nice!

Shareaza is OK. I use it for BitTorrents. IN general, if the file you want is popular, LimeWire is good. But Shareaza uses more networks so maybe you can find more stuff...

In my experience (2 years LimeWire PRO, 6 months Shareaza) usually LimeWire is faster than Shareaza...

Good info here for config + troubleshooting... why doesn't LimeWire document like this? :
http://wiki.shareaza.com/static/FAQ.FirewallsRouters

I'd like to hear more from anyone with multi client experiences?

Shareaza for Mac??
 

I've seen alot about Shareaza while searching for a better platform than Frostwire.. it's still good, but more often than enough I get a whole list of corrupt files and none of the songs I wanted to download. So can you use Shareaza on Mac?? And is it searchable like Frostwire??

Unfortunately no. And no GnucDNA clients were ported to the mac either. AFAIK

The Mac gnutella clients are LimeWire, LimeWire Pirate Edition (this works well), Phex, FrostWire (contains adware). There are a couple others not represented on this forum which are spin-offs of LW using the same code. One is a smaller version used mostly in the asian countries. The other, I also have a mindblock on the name but starts with A lol, but you need to buy it & also it now has same problem as the original LW with connecting. (I have tried both these last two clients in years past.)

Apparently Gtk-Gnutella (Linux client) works on Mac but only via terminal I believe.

There are a few ways you can run a Windows program client on your Mac. One is WINE, which is free. Simply allows you to run Windows apps. Another is, if you have an intel mac you can install Windows either with or without Bootcamp support. Other alternative is to install a virtual machine that runs Windows (which is what I use. i tried bootcamp option but my windows kept corrupting & eventually gave up on it.) Obviously I'm a Mac user also. :D

Have you tried the LPE (Pirate Edition)?
If you wish to try it, I'd recommend first deleting parts of your FrostWire preferences but keeping your downloads.dat & library5.dat & library.dat files. Downloads.dat contains your incomplete files download history. Library.dat files contain your shares information. If your shares are not complicated, then do not back this file up. Limewire.props I usually backup also but depends how differently FrostWire deals with this file. (The xml folder contains all the meta descriptions given to your files but ... FW is based on LW 4 using LW 5 code, so might be worth ridding of this folder since LW 4 meta-data is not compatible with LW 5.)
Probably easiest way is to backup just the Downloads.dat file, then delete all references to FrostWire on your computer. Install LPE & run it once, close it. Then replace the newer downloads.dat with the older one you backed up. (How to find the LW preferences folder)
This is probably more-so to do with your selection of files to download. Some good tips here How to find music & video.

The popular one that is most used by asian countries is "Cabo", and the other one which you must pay for is "Acquisition"!;)