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Originally posted by HoneyCoatedBrain
Hi, I am a Gnotella user, and I maintain six lines open when connevting to the hosts when i initiate the program. I was wondering whether this speeds up my downloads or if it slows them down. Will keeping up more connections lead to faster download speed and to more replies to my search? |
Keeping open connections will slow your download speed, but only slightly. You can disconnect other servents, or reduce the number of connections to speed things up, but this will not be a drastic improvement and it will prevent others from searching your shared files and making connections to you.
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Originally posted by HoneyCoatedBrain
Question 2
I was wondering which was the best Gnutella clone that i could download and if I could be using a much better program. I heard that Gnucleus is good, and i was going to get that, but then i saw that limewire was good. So i dont know which one to get now. Which is NUMERO 1?
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I would suggest trying them all, with one exception, and making up your own mind. My favorite is Gnucleus. It works best of all that I have tried. The only one that I would say you should definately stay away from is Bearshare, since it may install ad-ware and spyware on your machine without your knowlege if you are not careful during installation. There are other privacy and security concerns with Bearshare also, so you'd be better off just staying away from it.