my current favourite servant is not in the list

Might want to add SwapNut to the list, as everyday there are many more users online. Over 300,000 new users this week alone.

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my goodness, this is an old post.

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Zeroshadow,

What client are you using to do the tests? I ask because I know some seem to "seek out there own kind" on the g-net (cough*bearshare*cough). Whether this is intentional or by an accident of protocol may be an open question, but the end result is they cluster together which can easily skew any results. After all, in order download, you must first search, and your more likely to get results from nearby peers. A better test would be for some of the centrally located reflectors to monitor the traffic. Most search results do now include extra client info with them.

This being said, I'd still fully expect BearShare to be in the lead simply because of how much it's promoted. Still, as anyone who's looked at the top 40 recently could tell you, popularity != quality. Anyone remember how long it took to get people to stop using the original Gnutella even though it was completely abandoned and even hurting the network? It takes a great deal of time and effort to change the public mindshare.

Actually I'm suddenly seeing a lot of SwapNut myself. Anyone know where their site is?

i had limeshare beartella and gnowire they all worked so and so
then i went to the donkey2000 and loved it and its speed and multiple segmented downloads.
after a while i came across xolox and exept for some randomly crashes (what can be ctrl alt & del shut down and then without problem restarted) it is the fastest and best of all gnutella clients.
it connects in seconds
nothing to do if you work behind zonealarm it configures automaticaly
finds things much faster and the downloadspeed with dsl is awsome.

check it out, you will love it
costa

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SwapNut is at www.swapnut.com. SwapNut now has a forum here on Gnutellaforums.com as well.

Most comments I have seen say that downloads through SwapNut have been highly successful compared to many other programs.

What percentage of traffic are you seeing coming from SwapNut now? They were the 9th most downloaded file last week on Download.com, ahead of all other Gnutella apps, including BearShare and LimeWire, the two leaders as the poll shows.

SwapNut seems to actually *BE* LimeWire - my guess is they just bought rights to use LW's code. As such I don't see how it could be very much better.

In fact, one thing I really don't like is it asks for your name and email the first time you run it! No privacy policy to speak of either - so beware!

Both do look amazingly alike. Swapnut however connects you to Swapnut users where the other programs connect you to all gnutella applications. Since Swapnut forces its users to share files, I think that is where the previous post about being able to download better comes in. That and the fact that it acts like Kazaa by shrinking to the system tray instead of closing all the way down, keeping peoples PC's connected to the network so others can download more. My 2 cents. You can't turn off uploads either, so your shared folder files are shared whether you want to or not.

Yeah, I was using bearshare. So that probably inflated the bearshare numbers. At the time bearshare was the only one that kept a record of the downloads and clients. Is there any tests results like that out now? Yeah, SwapNut is becoming popular. My numbers are getting out dated now.

Here is some newer numbers, not from system. But still both from bearshare.

http://www.students.uiuc.edu/~mjaworsk/
http://aliexai.sytes.net:6346/webstats/index.html