Frostwire is a bad program/system

[jdusablon]

I thought I'd give Gnutella/DirectConnect another try, haven't used them in 3 years or so. I usually just torrent.

So I installed FrostWire.

What a terrible program! In this day and age of P2P, this program has no refinement, no sophistication. Searches are very unintelligent and yield some porn in every single search. You're not even guaranteed that an mp3 wil be an mp3 when you download it. One turned out to be a text (txt) file filled with garbage!

Also, download speeds are mediocre at best.

I'd like to hear from the FrostWire users why you still use it. Are you just used to it? Feel intimidated by torrents? I can understand, that, but I gotta know...what keeps gnutella alive?

[flankker]

i use azureus and frostwire. i tried emule in windows but it was sooo slow and i dont know what else is there in linux for p2p.

[Orunitia]

You expected better? Did you never use programs like kazaa years ago?

[Kimm]

FrostWire is better than Kazaa and most other similar P2P systems in that it has alot of users and transfers are relatively fast (compared to other similar ones you'll be lycky if you get 12 kb/s). On the porn part, you get that everywhere else

Only problem I have with FrostWire is its exessive CPU Usage and that the UI doesnt seem to work properly.

You can allways try Ares, it runns fine in Wine
http://aresgalaxy.sourceforge.net/

[Jason_25]

Try gtk-gnutella. It's less heavy than frostwire.

[Mathias-K]

I use Azureus for bigger files and Frostwire for MP3s or other small files.

I find it to be fast and efficient. Where would you find smaller files elsewhere than Gnutella/P2P/DC?

[Danny Boy]

The frostwire interface is clunky, the mouse doesn't click where you have the pointer.

I downloaded & installed Limewire which runs better than Frostwire for me.

As for torrenting.. I can never find what I want so I gave up with it a while back.

[BoyOfDestiny]

i use azureus and frostwire. i tried emule in windows but it was sooo slow and i dont know what else is there in linux for p2p.

Google is your friend.

http://www.amule.org/
http://www.xmule.ws/

Both are in the repos.

For torrents I've just been using bittornado. I would use azureus, I just don't feel like getting sun java up and running... If it works natively with the gcj, then I'd give it a go again.

[nalmeth]

I'm not a frostwire fan either.
apollon is my p2p app, azureus/bittorrent my torrent app, until I can get kmldonkey going and have both in one.

[jdusablon]

Don't get me wrong, here. I'm not trying to bash, but I really couldn't find a reason to continue using FrostWire, except for maybe the single-file searching. Sometimes bad software is just bad software.

Any of the torrent clients typically pull stuff down fairly quickly, like a 690MB avi comes down in an hour or so, and I couldn't get NEARLY close to that speed with FrostWire.

Something must be keeping it alive, though...I was supremely shocked to see my frined still using Kazaa Lite on his XP laptop!

[Mathias-K]

Something must be keeping it alive, though...

As said above, there is no faster way to get a single MP3 file.

[bailout]

I use lime/frostwire because it is the only program that works well without configuring the router specially for it.

As to torrents the only time I have ever had any success is downloading linux isos and openoffice and both times it was much quicker to use a direct dl. Other than that I have never been able to find anything I wanted using the search sites. The odd occasion I have seen a torrent and tried to dl it nothng happens because there are no seeders.

[sup]

I am an aMule fan, it is not that fast but it has very broad content - I scarcely do not find what I wand and when I download several things at once, I use my connection fully.

As for torrents, I use it for downloading .isos and other things I get across when browsing the web with the newest opera beta and it is at pretty fast, at least it was for ubuntu install CD.

BTW:if people did not share porn, it would not come up with search results