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FROST 5 IS OUT
Introduction
Welcome to FrostWire 5. As you can see from looking at FrostWire, a lot has been modified to improve the file sharing experience.

The previously used Gnutella network has been infiltrated with spam files, which resulted in many of your searches being a total mess and became more difficult to avoid. Now the program has centered itself around torrents, which are increasingly becoming a more popular method for file sharing.
This solid feature gets rid of the need to search in a specific category since torrents can contain any file type you may be looking for. Just enter your keywords and go!

Secondly, the user interface has been replaced with a smoother look and feel using Substance skinning.

While it may take some time to get used to the new FrostWire, it should be an overall much-needed improvement to the obstacles users ran into in older versions.

For information on how to use FrostWire 5, click the Guide link on the left-side navigation.

:lmao: Since FrostWire is only a halfassed bittorent client now.

1. Vuze (multiplatform) Vuze: The most powerful bittorrent app on earth.
2. uTorrent (Multiplatform) http://www.utorrent.com/downloads
3. Transmission (Mac/Linux) Transmission
4. libtorrent/rtorrent (linux) The libTorrent and rTorrent Project
5-999. Other real and not to mention better clients
1000 or worse: Frostwire bittorrent leechclient, which is banned pretty much everywhere except public tracker leechfests, where more torrent die than are uploaded every day. Congratulations on taking the next step towards killing all public BT :idea:

Also see http://www.gnutellaforums.com/frostw...5-0-7-out.html <-- LINK

Edit: unlike this new frostwire, see this project http://filesharingtalk.com/content/1...ownload-Speeds http://www.tribler.org/trac/wiki Maybe those FrostWire devs could actually learn something as well.

BTW you should be ashamed of yourself using "Tech Support Advisor" as a title, when endorsing that crap.

i'll explain bit better
Im support for the #support room
as well as computers and software
as well as forum
i dont have frost on this computer
so i cant comment on it

most my work is the FORUM and #support

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BTW you should be ashamed of yourself using "Tech Support Advisor" as a title, when endorsing that crap.

im going explain this better because caused some confusion

my TITLE refers to ALL TECH SUPPORT computers and software
as far as endorsing im only in support which is IRC chat and PART of frost, so if people wish to use it great others that's fine too
i just posted so now its updated to new

this is a pretty typical list from a private tracker:

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Originally Posted by None of your business!!

Some Banned Clients (These are clients we know about, just because yours isn't on this list, doesn't mean we allow it!)

WMRecorder and NSPlayer though not torrent clients, if being used because of the nature of the programs can and will get your account disabled

ABC (Randomly reports bad stats to the tracker.)
Acquisition (Not a proper torrent client.)
Ares (Beta client. Support and bug fixing appears to be weak at best.)
BinTorrent (Users have been caught cheating with this client.)
BitComet (All versions of BitComet report bad stats to the tracker and many leak to DHT.)
BitLord (Based on old buggy BitComet code.)
BitRocket (Does not conform to the torrent specification for client identification.)
Bits on Wheels (Support no longer provided and bugs are no longer being fixed.)
BitSpirit (Randomly sends DHT packets to its own public tracker.)
BitThief (Downloads from BitTorrent without contributing any resources itself)
BitTorrentPlus
Bittorrent++ (Does not uniquely identify itself.)
BitTorrent / Mainline (Does not honor the protocol requirements of private trackers.)
BitTyrant
BTG (Client has not been evaluated for approval.)
BT Next Evolution (This client has not been tested for suitability for use with private trackers.)
btpd-0.7 (Possible stats errors. Has resulted in multiple accounts being disabled.)
BTQueue (Has not been validated.)
burst! (No longer maintained.)
CTorrent and clones (Improper reporting / client is no longer supported.)
Deadman Walking (Does not identify itself properly to the tracker.)
Download Direct (Download Direct is a download manager, not a torrent client.)
ed2k plugin (Not a proper torrent client.)
eDonkey2000 (Not a proper Torrent client.)
eXeem (Not a proper Torrent client.)
Fast Torrent (Has the capability to mis-identify itself.)
FoxTorrent / Red Swoosh Client (Buggy client; still too early in its development.)
Flashget will get your account disabled.
Free Download Manager (Not a torrent client.)
FrostWire (Variant of LimeWire, unsuitable for private torrent site use.)
G3 (Consistently reports bad stats to the tracker)
Gnome BitTorrent (A BitTorrent client for Linux/Unix)
LimeWire (Leaks swarm info.)
Miro (Does not uniquely identify itself (as of version 1.1.))
MLdonkey (Not a proper torrent client.)
Monsoon
Nova Torrent (May not report correctly to the tracker when canceling/finishing a torrent session.)
0P3R4H
Opera (Not a proper torrent client)
Python-urllib/2.0 (Accounts disabled for stats errors or cheating)
Python-urllib/2.0a1 (Accounts disabled for stats errors or cheating)
Python-urllib/2.1 (Accounts disabled for stats errors or cheating)
qBittorrent (Does not identify its version correctly.)
QTorrent (Does not identify itself correctly.)
Retriever (Not a proper Torrent client.)
Rufus (Stats errors)
Shareaza (Not a proper Torrent client.)
Tixati (using this will get you automatically disabled by the tracker)
Torrent Station (Does not uniquely identify itself.)
TorrentStorm (Development and bug fixes ceased in 2005)
Torrent Swapper
Transmission 1.81 (using this will get you automatically disabled by the tracker)
Tribler (Based on ABC; the design of this client is unsuitable for private trackers.)
Turbo Torrent (Associated with stats errors. Known to contain spyware.)
XBT (Does not identify itself on the swarm / can be configured to pretend to be another client.)
Xtorrent (Client for Mac OS X / Numerous bugs make it bad for private tracker use.)
Ziptorrent (Does not identify itself correctly.)

Clients in Alpha or Beta should be avoided
(with the exception of uTorrentMac)!

Thanks Sleepless for your info about private trackers, but I think in long term use of FrostWire as BitTorrent client will even get it banned from the public one as well!I do not see any way Gnutella Forums can give any support for FrostWire version 5 since its not use the Gnutella network!

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Originally Posted by Sleepless

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Originally Posted by None of your business!!

Some Banned Clients (These are clients we know about, just because yours isn't on this list, doesn't mean we allow it!)…
Acquisition (Not a proper torrent client.)
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Download Direct (Download Direct is a download manager, not a torrent client.)
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Flashget will get your account disabled.
Free Download Manager (Not a torrent client.)
FrostWire (Variant of LimeWire, unsuitable for private torrent site use.)
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LimeWire (Leaks swarm info.)
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Opera (Not a proper torrent client)
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Shareaza (Not a proper Torrent client.)
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Clients in Alpha or Beta should be avoided
(with the exception of uTorrentMac)!

Acquisition is an off-shoot of LW, almost same code, only runs on Mac computers AFAIK.
Download Direct, Flashget & Free Download Manager are downloaders only, they do not share back; unable to seed. (I personally 'kick' every Flashget client I see. Such programs will simply kill / shorten the life of torrents by not sharing back.)

Then there's the LimeWire based part-time torrent programs that are set to only share for a certain time period or limited percentage/ratio, whichever criteria it reaches first. The default maximum period is for one day only. That comes very close to being freeloaders when you're talking about large torrent files such as videos. (Imagine this example, largest torrent I recall I have downloaded was around 125 to 140 GB in size. One day of sharing/seeding it back what % do you think LW or FW users would reach? Especially if their upload bandwidth is being used for other networks or purposes also. My guess is many would simply remove the torrent from the list as soon as they finish downloading anyway. I've seen LW & FW users downloading from public torrent sites, but I've never seen them seeding after their torrent finished downloading. And they wonder why the torrent community dislikes them.)

Yeah, I kick all those improper clients too including LW/FW, not Shareaza though as it seems to behave a little better i.e. it actually uploads back when in swarm.