Gnutella is slowly going downhill. New networks such as The Ares Network, MP2P, and G2 are great but MP2P only works without a firewall and G2 has in my opinion bad software (i hate Shareaze). Maybe its just me but i think that limewire should connect to multiple networks like Morpheus does but no bad networks like Fast Track or slower networks like eDonkey. I think that limewire shouldnt even connect to Gnutella but only G2 and Ares or possibly only G2.

-gnutella is going uphill
-Shareaza uploads and downloads to gnutella

by downhill i meant quality and speed of download. Sure they are fast but many are fake and not as fast as Ares or MP2P. So far ares and Mp2p have almost NO FAKE FILES. the gnutella network will never be as good as G2 Mp2p or Ares but we could make the limewire client better by adding support for other networks. and now Shareaze doesnt even connect to the gnutelle network by default. By default it connects to edonkey and G2 you have to tell it to connect to gnutella...

Since when is Morpheus connecting to more than one network? Morpheus isn´t connecting to Fasttrack anymore, only Gnutella or did I miss anything?

You know that the developer of Shareaza has written the protocol for G2? So how could he write a good protocol and a bad client for it, this doesn´t make sense?

btw fake files has nothing to do with a network, its depending on the user, many of them are switching between more than one network - so you will find in all networks fake files!

Its connect to G2 by default, of course its the "home" network, but you have to tell that it should connect to eDonkey.

He? Every client is working through a firewall, check your settings!

Did you make a statistic and count the fake files or what? EVERY network has fake files... sometimes more sometimes less...

Morgwen

Salut Morgwen, Morpheus 4 has multi network support: Gnutella and gnutella 2 (GnuDNA) overnet and fasttrack (with a mldonkey plugin) and their own new network Neonet. http://zeropaid.com/news/articles/auto/01192004a.php Please everybody, don't use Morpheus, it really harms networks (no fastrack uploading) and I had today to take down my Gwebcache. Morpheus 4 with gnuDNA 1.0.1.7 made thousands of request by hour (more than everyother server combined)!!! I really hope that lousy compagny aka Streamcast dies. And this is not the first time it litterally kills gwebcaches http://www.c0re.net/gnuforum/viewtopic.php?t=3725 http://www.c0re.net/gnuforum/viewtopic.php?t=3679 and other...

Ciao

Morpheus is connecting to Fasttrack.

First Sherman (Kazaa) banned them and now they are back... P2P can be funny.

But Morpheus is bullshit, it could connect to ALL existing networks and I wouldn´t touch it...

Actually the Donkey network is the best, I download larger files like videos... and the Donkey is UNBEATABLE in this point.

I also heard some good things about Ares, I am going to test is soon.

Morgwen

Yes overnet and emule are kings of the hill for big files, no question about that. Ares is a very fast little network, the only drawback is that its network topology (clusters of 10 000 clients) make it difficult to find things that aren't very popular. This program based on gift is also very good. It connects to Gnet, fasttrack (with upload) and openfasttrack. http://kceasy.sourceforge.net/ It is poisoned for windows users. Recommended.

There are no clusters in ares anymore. Read on there forums. There forums are at softgap.com The network is growing very fast since the addition of warez to there network. In the last two weeks ive seen an icrease in population from an average of about 20,000 users to now 79,000 users as of 11:30 1-26-04. you can get warez p2p client at warez.com incase you didnt know.

Maybe I'm paranoid but...

The Warez p2p client did some ... weird things to my computer. Screwed it up. After I installed it, I just had all these holes in my computer and the next thing I knew I had to reformat ;-PP

Morpheous is anohter service I don't trust.

I never trusted limewire when it was closed source.

I don't really trust bearshare...(that bear is freaky)

Overnet negatively effects my computer the most (slows it down), but it's never destroyed my system. (even if it keeps giving me that trojan virus warning that they SWEAR is fake) =p=p

WinMX has a small network, but it's the most trustworthy program, IMO.

I'd like to try Ares, I heard about that the other day.

But I'm not sure...
What beats Limewire? Opensource, Multi-platform, Large network.
It's great!
Even if it is written in Java ;-P

More networks on LW would be great, but my experience with all-in-one software hasn't been all that great. While I believe in sticking with one thing and doing it right, I think in this case the one thing that oughtta be stuck to is sharing, rather than the means of the sharing. I think the opensource-ness of LW's the best, and hope someone who knows how gets more networks online.