Help a brotha with some WinMX tips?

Lizard King · Post by **Lizard King** » Thu Mar 03, 2005 11:45 am

I had been using Kazaa, and was very pleased with the program. However, it made my computer run like shit, even when it was not running. So I finally had to ditch it.

I downloaded WinMX, which I have had before. I am extremely unhappy about the search results when looking for videos, i.e. porn. I don't get near the quality or quantity of results I got with Kazaa.

I have to use the "Make a Secondary Connection to the Internet" option because of the firewall in my router. Could this affect the search results? Is there anything I can do to improve this program's performance?

I'm ready to shit can WinMX in favor of something that sucks less.

Lizard King · Post by **Lizard King** » Thu Mar 03, 2005 1:14 pm

Holy crap. 3 results returned from a search on "Mexican girls".

3!?!?

Terrible.

ElTaco · Post by **ElTaco** » Thu Mar 03, 2005 3:30 pm

No the way you connect to the internet shouldn't effect your results. Its a different network and not nearly as popular as Kazaa. Kazaa is full of spyware. See if there is another client out there that can connect to the kazaa network...without the spyware. Then you'll be golden.

Mister Bushice · Post by **Mister Bushice** » Thu Mar 03, 2005 6:05 pm

does that client exist?

also - isn't kazaa lite fairly free of spyware? Seems to be.

BSmack · Post by **BSmack** » Fri Mar 04, 2005 2:55 pm

http://www.shareaza.com/

Also, if you have never browsed http://www.zeropaid.com/ do yourself a favor and bookmark it.

DrDetroit · Post by **DrDetroit** » Wed Mar 09, 2005 12:32 am

Just tried Shareaza...while I could find a lot of what I was searching for...actally dl'ing them was a challenge. Just kept telling me that it was connecting to the network.

Update - yeah, it sucks. I've tried to download twenty different files. I've two actually succeed in starting to transfer, but then it was only doing so at like 200 b/sec.

fix · Post by **fix** » Wed Mar 09, 2005 12:43 am

DrDetroit wrote:Just tried Shareaza...while I could find a lot of what I was searching for...actally dl'ing them was a challenge. Just kept telling me that it was connecting to the network.

I don't know about your ISP in particular but there are a few ISP's that are throttling the bandwith for BT & P2P users.

Or implementing caps. :x

Lizard King · Post by **Lizard King** » Sun Mar 13, 2005 2:40 am

WinMX is officially on my"sucks ass" list.

Lizard King · Post by **Lizard King** » Sun Mar 13, 2005 3:06 am

BSmack wrote:http://www.shareaza.com/

So far so good. It's working much better than WinMX.

Thanks for the link.

Mister Bushice · Post by **Mister Bushice** » Sun Mar 13, 2005 3:38 am

Best music DL program I've used is limewire, but I would like a bit torrent client to replace loki and suprnova, because I have a couple of albums partially downloaded. I have some old albums and cds that sound like shit and I want to replace them so I can keep good copies, but the fucking music and movie industry is trying to make it totally illegal and they shut sites down. Fuck them. I'll go to court with my scratched CDs and old Albums in hand if I have to. I shouldn't have to buy it twice. It ain't bread or milk.

But in the meantime - whose got a good BT link?

ElTaco · Post by **ElTaco** » Mon Mar 14, 2005 1:59 pm

If you own the CD, you can download the tracks legally. (fyi)

BSmack · Post by **BSmack** » Mon Mar 14, 2005 2:08 pm

Mister Bushice wrote:Best music DL program I've used is limewire, but I would like a bit torrent client to replace loki and suprnova, because I have a couple of albums partially downloaded. I have some old albums and cds that sound like shit and I want to replace them so I can keep good copies, but the fucking music and movie industry is trying to make it totally illegal and they shut sites down. Fuck them. I'll go to court with my scratched CDs and old Albums in hand if I have to. I shouldn't have to buy it twice. It ain't bread or milk.

But in the meantime - whose got a good BT link?

I can't argue against Limewire. I was using Shareaza, but this thread and one other made me think twice. I downloaded Limewaire and I have to say it rates a big 2 thumbs up.

That being said, if you like downloading full albums, WinMX still seems to have the most album wrap files of any of the clients I've tried. I'll be damned if I know why.