Which is the best Windows client?
 

Hi!

I have decided to make two polls this time...

one for Windows clients (this here!) and one for Linux!

Just vote for the client you think it is the best!

Morgwen

file-navigator? where does one download this program?

Here:

http://www.gnutella.com/connect/

Morgwen

Thank You :)

Peeranha
 

BEST CLIENT :-)
new and really good. he will kick all the others :-)

PEERanha ????? where 2 find it ??? seems 2 be a good client after all

Where you can find it
 

Check this url :
www.godx.de

wow
a nice replacement for xolox... too bad the colors caused seizures here.

well, gnucleus is getting better and better ;)

so is peeranha, try it out :)

www.godx.de

Anyone have links for the clients?

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Clients
 

Check out this URL

http://www.gnutellanews.com/

more clients
 

I guess this thread will give a better way and much more easier way find the client that suits you.....enjoy

http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...&threadid=8098

:) :) :)

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PEERahna has a pretty nasty user interface.. I don't know how that many people could have voted for it - didn't seem to work any better than any other generic Gnutella client, either..

Xolox has always been the only one that has worked half decently for me, I think because of the recursive searches - but now even it is going to crap..

I think the network has some serious problems. Possibly incompatibilities between clients, possibly it has outgrown itself - who knows.

WinMX still works wonderfully though - I get more results with it, but the major difference is that 90% of the files are downloadable, whereas with Gnutella clients it's only like 10% of the files that are downloadable.

I still have hopes for Gnutella, which is why I keep coming back here - but I gotta say, the last few times I have tried to find anything on there, things have looked pretty bleak.

Just my opinion.

i agree with dubstar, it seems that lately anytime I search on gnut I get fewer and fewer results, and almost no completes of larger files. :) I hope this is not a case of more people deciding to be freeloaders. I find that if I want a larger file eg. movie or warez I have to go back to direct connect, I don't like to do this as my HD is only 20 gig, so I can't get into the really good hubs, but at least I seem to get what I'm after. I really hope gnut will get better as I really like the underlying premise of free for all, but untill I see better network stability, and more and larger files that COMPLETE I guess I'm stuck with DC. :cool:

This results are quite different to the ones showed at Zeropaid.com. I guess that would be because here you can vote only once.

Ivan
"In the dark we make a brighter light"

@ dubstar and phantome

Give the developer of PEERanha some time...

Morgwen

Did you see PEERanha on the zeropaid vote? :)

And on zeropaid are not only Gnutella clients!

Morgwen

Polls
 

This poll was only about Gnutella clients. The results (so far) are:

Xolox: 33%
Bearshare: 28.5%
Limewire: 17.4%
Gnucleus: 15.4%
Gnotella: 4%
QTella: 1.6%

Now, if we take into account only this clients in this poll, the results would be:

Xolox: 30.76%
Gnotella: 23.07%
Gnucleus: 23.07%
Bearshare: 15.38%
Limewire: 7.69%
QTella: N/A

Ivan
"In the dark we make a brighter light"

Where is the problem now?

I remember the last poll I started here - Limewire was on the first place... I think Limewire is actually on the 16th on zeropaid!

Zeropaid is not Gnutellaforums!

Morgwen

Problem
 

No problem at all, just pointing something out.

Ivan
"In the dark we make a brighter light"

direct connect question
 

How do you get connected using direct connect? I have never used it before and been having problems getting connected for the first time.

[Can't seem to edit the above post.]

Re: direct connect question
 

You can`t edit your own post?

Morgwen

Re: Re: direct connect question
 

See, http://forums.gnutelliums.com/showth...6582#post26582

Gnucleus
 

You should check out Gnucleus again. It evolves every month and get better and better.
With morpheus moving to the gnutella network, there is a lot more users now and so much more files available.
Morpheus is based on the gnucleus code by the way which is not innocent.:rolleyes:

maybe we should start a new poll this time.
because some programs are not supported anymore like gnotella and xolox. you should think of that

I will think about a new poll!

Morgwen

Best Windows Client
 

I've been checking out all the clients listed in the poll and I'm real surprised at the results too. I have not checked out Xolox yet, but I will. I've been getting better search results using the new Limewire client (2.3.1) lately, though I'm not sure why. I'm attaching to the same servers as with GNucleus, so I should be getting the same results, right? I have to check my configurations in both apps to see what's different. I like GNucleus, but I just downloaded it today and need to use it more. I'll take a look at Xolox right now....

Have had reliability problems with Morpheus Preview. It keeps erroring out when I try to download. The problem might be that I'm testing it with Windows 2000. Can't wait for them to come out with their production version.

Shouldn't Morpheus be added to this polls since the new client can now access the Gnutella Network? Think someone mentioned this in a previous post...

Xolox
 

Didn't see that Xolox is discontinued. Anyone know where to download it anyway?

Re: Xolox
 

try searching google.. and if that doesnt work email me and i can send you the version that i have.... email is on profile. :)

btw, i believe the last oficial release was 1.12 so you will need something newer than that for it to work.

Xolox
 

I decided to search the forums for info on Xolox since I couldn't find it on the web. Since everyone says to find a newer client, I think I'll pass on checking it out. I was just curious as to why so many people liked it. Too bad it's not an option any more.

Hey, Iamnacho, thanks for the offer to e-mail the version you have, but I'll move on to something newer.

Re: Xolox
 

the only way for you to know why everyone liked it so much is to try it out! :) It is still my choice of a gnutella client when i use gnutella :) but anyway i hope you find one you like :)

There is still many people using those clients. Sadly I'm not included among them any more, using PEERanha right now and other non-gnutella p2p programs.

Ivan
"In the dark we make a brighter light"

Gnotella is still the best! even after 4 months of no development
 

Gnotella I believe still is the best client.. Won't someone develop something similar?

Re: Gnotella is still the best! even after 4 months of no development
 

Perhaps you should choose a client which is similar to it and make some suggestions!

Morgwen

Hi, Morgwen... Sorry if you are not happy with Shareaza being added late to the list....
Please remove it if you do not like it being included.

Gnotella is still the best! even after 4 months of no development
 

Morgwen,
I Wish someone could let me know what is similar to Gnotella. So far, I've tested out Bearshare, Limewire, Gnucleus and to my many are similar to Gnotella, however none have all of the features of Gnotella and the ease of use which Gnotella has. Does anyone know where Shaun Sidwall, the developer of Gnotella, went to? I'd be interesed to find out where he went. From the features, Gnucleus comes close and I have made suggestions, only time can tell. One of the things I would like to see is the ability to control the amount of times another Gnutella client is able to ping you for your file. I have found that Gnuecleus has a nasty habbit of trying to ping you every 10 seconds by some users. (I think this is putting a load on the network which is unecessary) Every 60 seconds should be fine for the all of us.

Patience is a virtue and is well received.
My thoughts,
Bob.

I like the interface and features of limewire alot (2.3.3 or later versions) but it's slow as dirt, probably because it's in java. Are any of the other clients close to it?

Re: Gnotella is still the best! even after 4 months of no development
 

I agree completely. I miss Gnotella a lot. I haven't uninstalled it yet though.

Ivan
"In the dark we make a brighter light"

Why is there any reason to stop using a client just because it's "discontinued"?

We gnotella users, haven't abandoned gnotella yet... Still using it and until something better appears, will continue to use it.

Wait! I am still using Gnotella. I had many files queued there. I just like it, there's no other explanation for that. If there were any other client that used Gnotella as a model, I'd probably use it full time. I have to say I'm using WinMX a lot now, I find it more practical that most of the Gnutella clients. I like PEERanha, Gnucleus is OK, but nothing can be compared to my Gnotella.

Ivan
"In the dark we make a brighter light"

WinMX sucks! What network is winmx on anyway? For one thing it doesn't keep track of your download list when you close the program, what kind of moron writes a client like that? That should be the first feature you add.

WinMX uses the open nap servers!

Morgwen

What does the client have to do with teh numbr of results? Shouldn't gnut and everything else all be interconnected no matter hwat?

What do you mean by direct connect? And what are "good hubs" and how do you get into them?

Direct connect is a client with an own net! They use several servers HUBS, you can´t enter all hubs some of them demand several gigabytes of files for sharing!!!

Morgwen

Is tehre somewhere where I can read more about this? How I can create my own? Where I can get a list of them and how to connect? I have lots of gigs!

What's open nap?

http://www.zeropaid.com/directconnect/

Morgwen

http://www.zeropaid.com/napster/opennap.php

Morgwen

Using out-dated servants is not good for the network... not implementing pong-caching and the ultrapeer system doesn't help everyone else who does. Thankfully you're in the minority.


What happened to gnotella anyway? Where'd the developer go?