I'm getting 1Meg broadband soon And want to know what software is good for downloading films and music, purely for research you see *cough*

Also for online gaming what's a good site for fing#ding out decent game servers???? Cheers

Richie (sick of dial up)

I *hear* good things about some of these Bit Torent clients. I say *hear* because I won't touch P2P myself after bad experiences with Kazaa, but my mate swears by some bit torent clients. and he did get me all four seasons of futurama the other day, so can't be that bad.....purely for archiving purposes.

As for the game servers, well, some games already have links to dedicated servers, or can host their own via the company servers (like how i run Jedi Knight 2/3 games with a few mates connected via lucas arts etc)

or there is always Gamespy?

I use a mixture of eMule, Kazaa Lite and iMesh which seem to cover most things. Really depends on what you are looking to download

Chris

bearshare is good, kazaa lite doesn't seem to won't to work anymore after loading SP2.

www.suprnova.org and the "Yet Another BitTorrent Client" are very good indeed.

www.suprnova.org[/url'] and the "Yet Another BitTorrent Client" are very good indeed.

another vote for suprnova...

tho i use azuerus client...

kazzalite has gone teets up on mine ,so i have been using lime wire

Dont use any of those, theres only one to use for me

http://www.newzbin.com/

if your too tight to pay for it (about

another one is shareaza , connects to gnutella2 network by default but can use edonkey2000 network and also download torrents although you cant search for torrents using shareaza. Contains no spyware, and can download the same file from edonkey and gnutella2 from different sources at the same time.

www.shareaza.com

suprnova is class been having a looksie. It is gonna save me a fortune in transformer series (How old am I??? ) I've bought the complete set of the original series (cost a fortune so not a complete thief) I want the rest as I only saw dribs and drabs so cheers for the help guys and let the downloading commence.

I swear by WinMX - some people have difficulties, but I can pretty much find anything that I fancy 'evaluating'.

I could have told you this at work - but I didn't know that you'd asked the question!

Whatever you use, make sure you have firewall and decent antivirus software as broadband is the preferred connection of choice for nasties, and there is plenty on P2P sites.

Whatever you use, make sure you have firewall and decent antivirus software as broadband is the preferred connection of choice for nasties, and there is plenty on P2P sites.

And some decent anti-spyware!

Chris

And some decent anti-spyware!

Chris

Goes without saying...

I could give a whole list of suggested protective software....but I wont bore you

...you're not wrong! I find it best to hide behind a router, and most important of all *not* use IE...

...you're not wrong! I find it best to hide behind a router, and most important of all *not* use IE...

But still run a software firewall as well.

I use Firefox, Zone alarm pro, norton AV2004 plus I run spyware blaster if that doesn't help me well er I give up!!!!!!