Shouldn't you all be using gnutella now? I think that avoids this problem by not having any central servers. It's sort of peer-to-peer.
Or freenet... There's a wee problem with gnutella. It sucks. Well, in terms of bandwidth it sucks. It absoloutely eats up bandwidth, which is a real problem for dial up. When you see your ppp monitor on your trusty gkrellm go up to 4.5k/s you think "I must be downloading *something*". Nope. Just the huge overhead on that particular protocol. So I tried gnutella for a while, and gnapster produced more downloads, even if it is just mp3's. *sigh* 2 more months and I move to a place with broadband.... Ricardo -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze
On Wed, Jul 03, 2002 at 07:00:49PM +0000, Ricardo Campos said:
Or freenet...
Try giFT.. use the cvs ;) -- (o_ .----------------------------------------. //\ | Craig Butcher | http://www.wizball.co.uk| V_/_ | - Using Debian GNU/Linux - | `----------------------------------------'
Ricardo Campos <corez23@linuxmail.org> wrote:
Well, in terms of bandwidth it sucks. It absoloutely eats up bandwidth, [...]
Oh, that's surprising. I thought one of the main proprietary Windows clients now used the gnutella network. I'd be surprised if they'd tolerate such poor performance. Sure you had your settings right? ;-) MJR
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