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Old 05 February 2004, 11:12 AM
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I can't get kazaa light and have tried downloading GIFT but it does not work from my PC any ideas


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Old 05 February 2004, 11:41 AM
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Bit Torrent, Direct Connect, Emule and Kazaa Diet.

They all have relative merits.

Bit Torrent is my fave because of the reliable and high download speeds, selection of 'material' and less viruses and misnamed crap than other true P2P sharing utilities.

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Old 05 February 2004, 11:51 AM
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i use kazaa lite and find it excellent
bit unusual why it isn't downloading but why not try winfx or something. I used to have imesh but after using Kazaa Lite I wouldn' go back

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Old 05 February 2004, 11:55 AM
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Emule for files and Soulseek for music.

Imesh is full of spyware, as is Bearshare. Kazaa Lite seems to have a lot of stuff thats not actually what it says it is, so peoples rating improve by sharing stuff.

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Old 05 February 2004, 11:57 AM
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Kazaa lite was shut down by kazaa so thats why you can't down load it any more. I will try a few of the others.

Its books I want (to put on the ipaq) and the occansional song so before I found kazza lite pretty good.


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Old 05 February 2004, 12:35 PM
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I use WinMX all the time.


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Old 05 February 2004, 12:43 PM
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ok just d/l'ed B.T...now what?

which is good for dialups?
Old 05 February 2004, 12:56 PM
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ive used kazaa lite for the last couple of years but its $hite now, nowhere near as good as it used to be, need to find a replacement.

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Old 05 February 2004, 01:28 PM
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Shareaza
Connects to the same P2P network as Kazaa and you can d/l Bit Torrent things too
Old 05 February 2004, 02:23 PM
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yeah kazaa is cr@p now - i dont get why things are not what theyre called??? so what about getting higher ratings, what good does it do you anyway?

well at least you can d/l things, had a look at winmx, seems to me like you will queuing a long time?
Old 05 February 2004, 03:43 PM
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I use limewire, as I'm on the mac, have also used bit torrent too, and thats quite groovy.
Old 05 February 2004, 04:19 PM
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using Torrent Storm now
Old 05 February 2004, 05:39 PM
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overnet (much better than kazza or e-mule). Can always get full bandwidth on popular downloads 2m/Bits a sec.
Old 05 February 2004, 06:26 PM
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Another vote here for direct connect (well,, DC++ client)


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WinMX works well for me too!

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