Which Client is Most Popular?

[Maytoi]

Ya, you are right I am not very consistent with the terminology I need to work on that. If it is a little confusing to a Senior Member then I bet it would be really confuse to a Junior Member.

[wmc]

Zeroshadow,

What client are you using to do the tests? I ask because I know some seem to "seek out there own kind" on the g-net (cough*bearshare*cough). Whether this is intentional or by an accident of protocol may be an open question, but the end result is they cluster together which can easily skew any results. After all, in order download, you must first search, and your more likely to get results from nearby peers. A better test would be for some of the centrally located reflectors to monitor the traffic. Most search results do now include extra client info with them.

This being said, I'd still fully expect BearShare to be in the lead simply because of how much it's promoted. Still, as anyone who's looked at the top 40 recently could tell you, popularity != quality. Anyone remember how long it took to get people to stop using the original Gnutella even though it was completely abandoned and even hurting the network? It takes a great deal of time and effort to change the public mindshare.

Actually I'm suddenly seeing a lot of SwapNut myself. Anyone know where their site is?

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i had no idea homosexuals were known for their portability... bisexuals i could understand, but... hmm.....

[lotsanoisy69]

[Kristen D]

i had limeshare beartella and gnowire they all worked so and so
then i went to the donkey2000 and loved it and its speed and multiple segmented downloads.
after a while i came across xolox and exept for some randomly crashes (what can be ctrl alt & del shut down and then without problem restarted) it is the fastest and best of all gnutella clients.
it connects in seconds
nothing to do if you work behind zonealarm it configures automaticaly
finds things much faster and the downloadspeed with dsl is awsome.

check it out, you will love it
costa

[Angry Grandma 2.0]

Moved this post info to the top one, so it would be easier to see.

[jarbo]

Yes, please make your IP logger version available to everyone.
I would be very interested in using it and it would be a good way to make those statistics all are talking about in this thread.

[radiokatblu]

Moved this post info to the top one, so it would be easier to see.

[Stevie N]

gnut is performing very well!

How about gnut?

The programmer has some good ideas about optimizing network performance http://www.gnutelliums.com/linux_unix/gnut/doc/gnut-6.html

[railcrew]

Umm..thats pretty fat dude!!!

Need a job?