moeburn Posted October 9, 2004 Share Posted October 9, 2004 I am planning a test to see which P2P programs are worth your while, and which will be an ultimate waste of time. I will rate everything from ease of installation, to ease of configuration and use. I will use a stopwatch and time the length it takes for me to download a song, from the moment i click 'search'. I will test the program's potential for large files, as well as small ones. And I will test its ease of finding even the rarest of files. Of course, a single test on any of these aspects isn't without accidental bias. Anyone wishing to help me by performing this test at different times of day, for example, or any suggestions of which programs I should include, or what tests to perform, please, post! Here's a list of program's i've decided on to test so far: -Kazaa (Sharman) -Kazaa Lite -DC++ -eMule -BitTorrent (original client) However, these are only the programs i have ever used. Please, suggest more. And here's what i intend to review: -Ease of finding the program -Ease of installation/configuration, including necessity for router configuration and documentation, and loading time. -Complexity and configurability (Is it bloated? Can it play its own mp3s, or does that feature not even work?) -Time of download for searching of a Top-10 song -Time of download for searching for a rare B-Side oldie -Time of download for a popular large (legal) file -Time of download for a rare large (legal) file -Size of current community or popularity (obviously affected by connection time) -Requirement to share (Do you need 50GB to start with? Do you have to give out all your bandwidth? Can you hoarde?) -Corruptability (Does it hash files? Can I expect my file to be intact, no questions asked?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HellBender Posted October 9, 2004 Share Posted October 9, 2004 I will use a stopwatch and time the length it takes for me to download a song, from the moment i click 'search'. I look forward to that for bittorrent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krmathis Posted October 9, 2004 Share Posted October 9, 2004 Looking forward to see the test result. Interesting to see how the different software/networks perform! :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Axon Posted October 9, 2004 Share Posted October 9, 2004 What about using xdcc on IRC with an Indexer site? -Ax Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[John] Posted October 9, 2004 Share Posted October 9, 2004 Ah, it's not going to be to good. Most of the time, since other people host the files on their computer, it is going to run off their connection. So for one file, you can get tons of different connection speeds all varing into total different numbers. And as for finding "rare" files, as I said before, people host these files, and many of them are not online. I just don't think it will be to accurate, and it is a waste of time. ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jibnor858 Posted October 9, 2004 Share Posted October 9, 2004 lol i bet u get a virus! also add morpheus to the list just for a laugh :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wikan Posted October 9, 2004 Share Posted October 9, 2004 Use the Azureus client for testing bittorrent.. more configurable Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vice Posted October 9, 2004 Share Posted October 9, 2004 Also add Winmx to the list (its widely used) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PseudoRandomDragon Posted October 9, 2004 Share Posted October 9, 2004 Add Shareaza. Uses a few protocols which may turn out to be better than eMule. Don't forget about mIRC either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HappyCar Posted October 9, 2004 Share Posted October 9, 2004 I use emule personally, just because i can have my machine running 24/7 makes it easy for downloading things such as Sonic X cartoons :cool: BT is good for new release things I have found though kazaa.....R.I.P....the network is down hehehe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thesmallelder Posted October 9, 2004 Share Posted October 9, 2004 Don't bother using Kazaa. Just tried it yesterday for hell of it and couldn't find anysongs. And when I did find one, the people just turn off uploading. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bach_m Posted October 9, 2004 Share Posted October 9, 2004 Don't bother using Kazaa. Just tried it yesterday for hell of it and couldn't find anysongs. And when I did find one, the people just turn off uploading. SO where are the masses now? emule? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thesmallelder Posted October 9, 2004 Share Posted October 9, 2004 I'd say the non-geeks went to WINMX and the geeks went to emule, bittorent, or IRC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TmasterT Posted October 9, 2004 Share Posted October 9, 2004 limewire pro ( for individual mp3) bittorrent all th=e rest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slimy Posted October 9, 2004 Share Posted October 9, 2004 eMule pwns, whether or not it scores good on your tests test out piolet 1.83 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulCabby Posted October 9, 2004 Share Posted October 9, 2004 you should also add Ares to the list. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moeburn Posted October 9, 2004 Author Share Posted October 9, 2004 Although I have no actual time results yet, it takes eMule about 3 days for a popular song, and the unpopular ones, although found in search, still haven't started. DC++ got both types in about ten minutes, and Kazaa Lite didn't find any unpopular songs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slimy Posted October 9, 2004 Share Posted October 9, 2004 moeburn, your definitly doing something wrong eMule is slow, but not that slow plus it increases the more u use it and the more you share eMule is #1 in finding rare files Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moeburn Posted October 9, 2004 Author Share Posted October 9, 2004 moeburn, your definitly doing something wrongeMule is slow, but not that slow plus it increases the more u use it and the more you share eMule is #1 in finding rare files I have been using eMule for 1.5 years, so I shouldn't have to worry about "queue points" or whatever they call it. But thats a demotion for the final results anyway :p You're wrong about that, DC++ seems to be better at finding rare files, but both seem to find files that the other can't find. I'll have to look at it more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slimy Posted October 15, 2004 Share Posted October 15, 2004 I have been using eMule for 1.5 years, so I shouldn't have to worry about "queue points" or whatever they call it. But thats a demotion for the final results anyway :pYou're wrong about that, DC++ seems to be better at finding rare files, but both seem to find files that the other can't find. I'll have to look at it more. 584702690[/snapback] well i dl, 3 gigabyte files in 3 days, not 3 megabyte files :happy: oh ya, and my internet isn't that good anyways :no: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zzachattack2 Posted October 15, 2004 Share Posted October 15, 2004 IMO eMule is very fast. At first kinda looks slow because they measure in KB/s instead of Kb/s. (one kiloByte = 8 kilobits) I've gotton up to 384.44 KB/s download rate, which happens to be my max bandwidth with comcast. (with about 10 dl's running) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PseudoRandomDragon Posted October 15, 2004 Share Posted October 15, 2004 You should really try mIRC. Though hard to use, it is very good at finding rare files. Most of the stuff on DC++ came from mIRC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moeburn Posted October 15, 2004 Author Share Posted October 15, 2004 You should really try mIRC. Though hard to use, it is very good at finding rare files. Most of the stuff on DC++ came from mIRC. 584737037[/snapback] Thats true, but it would be difficult to judge, since it is not a P2P filesharing client by intention. The problem with emule, is that it is impossible to upload to someone greater than 10kB/s. If you increase your upload speed limit, it will increase the amount of people you're uploading to, and you can't change that number. Thus you are pretty much guaranteed to never experience speeds above 10kB/s from one person at a time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nvidiafreak Posted October 15, 2004 Share Posted October 15, 2004 try shareaza you can get it at shareaza.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slimy Posted October 15, 2004 Share Posted October 15, 2004 that's y they put the file in parts giving you high dl speeds Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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