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Old June 30th, 2002
thypentacle thypentacle is offline
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Default WinMX

I have tried them all and WinMX (version 3.22) is still the best for me. I hit download speeds of 10-27k a sec on a regular basis and that's fast enough for me. At this very moment I'm downloading two movies and a pc game with a total current download speed of 32k a sec and I'm not in a que for any of them. :o)

As for the tweaking, I haven't tweaked WinMX at all, it worked right from the start with no changes. It is true though that WinMX is full of leechers, I really hate that, so it does need a feature to disable sharing with users that don't share. I don't think XoloX has that, does it? To my knowledge LimeWire is the only one that offers that, but that's the only good thing about that POS software. Like I said, XoloX is OK, but it's far from being ready in my opinion. I am thankful for what I was able to download when it used to work though.

I think WinMX is my only good option and it seems to be working very well for me at this point. I don't even have to use the extra servers options. The WinMX peer network alone has a lot to offer. Being put in a que can suck at times, but 25% of the time, if you're nice, and message the person your trying to download from if they could start your transfer they will start you up ahead of everyone else, but only if you yourself are sharing as well. :o)

As for Kazaa Lite, it's very handy to find rare software or movies, but the download speeds really suck ***. However, they do complete eventually.

Nuff said.