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Does P2P just SUCK on the Mac?
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1) DC was never very mac friendly
2) Almost all the hubs want a frikken ton of files from you, gigs and gigs.
3) DC -- English version never did well either, so that adds to the gigs and gigs requirments.
Almost all of them are other non-english speaking hubs.
2) Almost all the hubs want a frikken ton of files from you, gigs and gigs.
3) DC -- English version never did well either, so that adds to the gigs and gigs requirments.
Almost all of them are other non-english speaking hubs.
Audiogalaxy ruled ! ! !.............I got some GREAT remixes and rare cuts from Audiogalaxy. Download were quick. At least on a PC. Kinda dragged on Mac's. Is there anybody out there inspired enough or ballsy enough to rekindel an Audiogalaxy type setup.
DC is cool but no one speaks english and it's like a little club and you need to be part of cliqué. AWwww, I'm just bitter. <LOL> I'll keep trying.
Poisioned is cool but most of my downloads get stuck in that "waiting" limbo state. What the hell is that. Why can't it work like eMule. Where it can take from tons of users with the same files, even if they are incomplete and put/pull it together.
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DC is cool but no one speaks english and it's like a little club and you need to be part of cliqué. AWwww, I'm just bitter. <LOL> I'll keep trying.
Poisioned is cool but most of my downloads get stuck in that "waiting" limbo state. What the hell is that. Why can't it work like eMule. Where it can take from tons of users with the same files, even if they are incomplete and put/pull it together.
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A Tip:
When you get the endless waiting first:
'Pause and then Resume'
If that fails right click (or similar click) and go to find more sources.
That usually works.
have fun.
Thanks for the tip!!! I'll give it a go.
Hey, if anyone else has more tips that's worked for them....please share......
Hey, if anyone else has more tips that's worked for them....please share......
I gave it a go and some worked but most didn't. Also, when i try to change/find a new source, nothing happens.
Also...any of you guys run a 'HUB' via DC? And/Or recommend any?
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Its a tip, not god.
If you 'rapid' "find new source" like one after the other, none of them will work, and don't complain about poisoned, this is because the FastTrack plugin can't do it, maybe next version.
You gotta wait for one to reach the 'peak' of the new soruces before trying the next.
Also... I found a way to find new sources constantly...
Lets say I'm downloading 'xyz123'
I search for 'xyz' [In the Serach area]
That will find me new connections (lets say 3), when that search ends and the download hasn't contiuned hit 'reload' (its an icon it is nornally an x or an reload icon).
After it realoads I will have more and more connections. With these users and the ones I can hit 'find more sources' with I can normally get 85+% of the stuff to download.
So your expecting the same downloading and same performance as the devolpers of KaZaA have.
Yeah, because KaZaA didn't want other clients to access FastTrack they didn't give out their code, if they did we could have a better app, but they didn't.
NOT COMING
They said they aren't going to make a KaZaA for mac, too much un-portable code.
That is why there is mlMac, Poisoned and BitTorrent for the mac.
Hey Will Henderson: have a read of what the musician Janis Ian has to say about file sharing, it's not all "evil freeloaders" looking to just get free tunes:
http://www.janisian.com/article-internet_debacle.html
A long time ago, when FM radio first came along, there was just as much rancor and blustering from the music industry owners. They figured with the better FM signal, people would just record music from FM stations and stop buying albums....and that it was "the beginning of the end" for the music industry!
Exactly the same thing now...but read what Janis has to say.
http://www.janisian.com/article-internet_debacle.html
A long time ago, when FM radio first came along, there was just as much rancor and blustering from the music industry owners. They figured with the better FM signal, people would just record music from FM stations and stop buying albums....and that it was "the beginning of the end" for the music industry!
Exactly the same thing now...but read what Janis has to say.
Hum... I was wondering why poisoned can't find my files that are online on a PC 1 and a half feet away from my mac (and I'm sure their online, people are currently downloading from me). I will try the new version maybe
Remember the FastTrack Plugin doesn't have every client/user, its a work in progress, it access most of them, but no where near what Acual KaZaA has, but because of the Gnutella and OpenFT it balances it out.
Does anyone know why DC recognizes my shared folder and all the other subfolders in it and Posioned can not. For some reason, Posioned only recognizes the loose files in that shared folder but none of the other subFolders??????
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I'll ask them if this is the way it is suppose to be.
Anyway you can add folders if this is true.
Re: Does P2P just SUCK on the Mac?
it's a little dated...but HotLine is still a good P2P client/server software that is Mac (Classic and X) and Windows compatible...
it's a little dated...but HotLine is still a good P2P client/server software that is Mac (Classic and X) and Windows compatible...
I'm using Kazaa lite or K++ 2.4 and i consistently get 40-80k/sec download speeds. I also have comcast. THe highest speed i have gotten is 200k/second, and that was sustained for about an hour (got a movie *_*)
I seriously doubt comcast did anything to the ports at all if i'm getting 200k/second.
MrMacMan..... any info on this would be helpful.
Also, in DC....does the amount of HUBs open effect your connection speed? If you quit out and reopen DC, do you have to manually open all the HUBs you had open last or will the downloads continue as long as the person is somewhere out there in HUB land.<grin>? Are there any MAC specific HUBs out there? I did a search for 'MAC' in the HUB search but only came up with two solid HUBs that won't kick you off for any little thing. «MacGyvers Wørkshøp» & «oOMac OS HubOo»
One LAST question.....How is HotLine comparable to DC? What's the address for HotLine??
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Also, in DC....does the amount of HUBs open effect your connection speed? If you quit out and reopen DC, do you have to manually open all the HUBs you had open last or will the downloads continue as long as the person is somewhere out there in HUB land.<grin>? Are there any MAC specific HUBs out there? I did a search for 'MAC' in the HUB search but only came up with two solid HUBs that won't kick you off for any little thing. «MacGyvers Wørkshøp» & «oOMac OS HubOo»
One LAST question.....How is HotLine comparable to DC? What's the address for HotLine??
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I've never used DC so I can't tell 'ya of any comparison...unfortunately Hotline is deceased...but you can still get it from CNet (http://download.com.com/3120-20-0.html?qt=hotline&tg=dl-2003&search=+Go!+)...that's how I had to do file-sharing for a littlewhile (pre-OS X) between mac and windoze...
I was usin acquisition and i never had a problem with it, its fast and all that just not good results. after reading this thread i went and downloaded poisoned wich i must say is great, but when i double click on somthing im downloading it dosnt open i have to go to the folder where its downloading too wich is kind of annoying, but ive been reading this and a lot of people are sayin kazaa isnt any good, well thats the best on the PC and posioned i think is better than kazaa but if you dont like either i would say that file sharing sucks on mac and pc
...or you could upgrade your mac to OS 10.2...it's fully SAMBA compliant...and you can transfer between machines anywhere on your network at whatever speeds your NIC/Hub/Router's will allow...without adding any additional software to either machine...