You like this WinMx?

[Hot Head]

Because I was having such crappy results with WinMX, I decided to conduct a little experiment:

I have two computers in my home office each with its own dedicated broadband connection and same OS, firewalls, antivirus, ports, etc. On one computer I used WinMX to download 9 video files of varying lengths and two common mp3 files. I did the exact same thing on my other computer, but instead of WinMX I used eMule. Altogether there is a total of 5.391 gigs of files.

In roughly 22 hours since I started, these are my download results:

eMule = approx 745 megs (close to 1 gig)
WinMX = approx 7.2 megs (close to nothing)


Some of you may say that it's the settings, the firewall, the antivirus software, the connection, bad luck, the time of day, the stars, the moon or whatever. I say it's WinMX. Sometimes its super fast but most of the time it's a slow as a three-legged cow....at least for me.

Of course, this little experiement is highly unscientific and not long enough to draw firm conclusions, but the fact is this: I GET MORE STUFF FROM OTHER P2PS THAN I DO FROM WINMX.

Anybody want to place your bets on which p2p wins?

[phalkon30]

Hmm, well we know you aren't skorchie

Winmx can be slow, it can be fast to, I honestly don't use it anymore, but its fun just for variety

[Krell]

Even if you had performed the experiment with two identical computers with the same Winmx connections settings, testing winmx against winmx, you would have different results.

In a macro sense, most of us, 99% of us, have long since come to the same conclusions, and have had ALL the debates on the "features" and queues in Winmx.

Youve been here long enough to look around, and to find the proper place to post. Do you see any other discussions on Winmx? Other than how to set up the Auto Responder? NO

There's a reason for that.

[Psilaxs]

It is WinMX, it is one of the great "teaser" networks out there (TONS of content, but good luck actually getting any of it)

I stick with Kazaa lite ++ (With K Lite i can download GIGS per day easy) Direct Connect ++ and once in a blue moon FileTopia

But the latter two i rarely have to use since I do not download a lot of games.

I have heard many good things about E-mule, and i wish i was able to use it, but i constantly have Low ID blah blah, router problems with it, (Even after setting it to DMZ mode) Plus those DAMNED .MET files

[Crazy Horse]

Seems like it's about time for a long awaited newer version. Let's see..it was about 5 or 6 months ago they said they would have a new update in 5 or 6 weeks. Yep - that's about right. With all the new versions of other p2ps coming out they are about due (overdue)..whatever.

[isus]

i hear a lot of people whine about the speed and the queues of winmx. well, 95% of the time, its the person above you who you are connected to that is causing problems. not winmx. winmx is not centralized. when you open winmx, it will check your files, and then contact a server (based on geographic location) to try to find an available 'ultrapeer'.

9x out of 10, if you cant find a file, if you cant connect to someone for a download... its bc of that peer. just click refresh, and then you get a new peer. whenever i do a search and can't get more than a few good results, i just 'refresh', and i can see the difference.

the file list upload time is shorter, the searches faster and more productive, and the downloads are faster (connecting).

if you download slowly off of someone, then its most likely your fault or the other persons. if that person is uploading to 5 people, you will get 1/5th their bandwidth (assuming everyone has the same connection speed, etc.) or it might be your fault, trying to run msie and look at streaming movies at the same time.

anyway, if you can handle winmx, then you can find anything. i can.

[condorloco]

i gave up on winmx after almost 1 year of using it because of the loOOOng ques. Kaazalite 100%

[Evil_Dweller_01]

Originally posted by isus
i hear a lot of people whine about the speed and the queues of winmx. well, 95% of the time, its the person above you who you are connected to that is causing problems. not winmx. winmx is not centralized. when you open winmx, it will check your files, and then contact a server (based on geographic location) to try to find an available 'ultrapeer'.

9x out of 10, if you cant find a file, if you cant connect to someone for a download... its bc of that peer. just click refresh, and then you get a new peer. whenever i do a search and can't get more than a few good results, i just 'refresh', and i can see the difference.

the file list upload time is shorter, the searches faster and more productive, and the downloads are faster (connecting).

if you download slowly off of someone, then its most likely your fault or the other persons. if that person is uploading to 5 people, you will get 1/5th their bandwidth (assuming everyone has the same connection speed, etc.) or it might be your fault, trying to run msie and look at streaming movies at the same time.

anyway, if you can handle winmx, then you can find anything. i can.

Very well said Isus..
Winmx is not for people who start their download and after 5 min if its not downloading at full speed they uninstall the program..
Wait and good things will come.. follow Isus's tips and you will get far.

[Krell]

anyway, if you can handle winmx, then you can find anything. i can. Winmx is not for people who start their download and after 5 min if its not downloading at full speed they uninstall the program


Untill I switched to DC++, everything that I had was from Winmx, and while others were raising cain, I was hauling in the goods.

You cant have that fast food mentality, and you need to learn to work it.

[isus]

Originally posted by Krell
Untill I switched to DC++, everything that I had was from Winmx, and while others were raising cain, I was hauling in the goods.

You cant have that fast food mentality, and you need to learn to work it.

lol... fast food. i used to work at arby's, and then i worked at mcd's for a while. maybe that's why i like winmx. lol

back in the day, 2.6 was the best. i was new to p2p as napster was fading... so i soon found winmx, and it was so fast. it took all the speed i had, that napster showed. napster: 2.9kB/s, winmx: 2.9kB/s, kazaa: 1.6kB/s.

[Evil_Dweller_01]

Originally posted by isus
lol... fast food. i used to work at arby's, and then i worked at mcd's for a while. maybe that's why i like winmx. lol

back in the day, 2.6 was the best. i was new to p2p as napster was fading... so i soon found winmx, and it was so fast. it took all the speed i had, that napster showed. napster: 2.9kB/s, winmx: 2.9kB/s, kazaa: 1.6kB/s.

Woah! Holy shit!
Talk about fast speeds!

[notbob]

it does demonstrate a good point

winmx does not work well without constant babysitting--if you need a p2p that will keep working while you are gone, donkey/mule/overnet is ok, and so is dc

if it's the weekend and you have nothing better to do, winmx and grabbing a few files will give you plenty to do

[Hot Head]

QUOTE]Originally posted by phalkon30
Hmm, well we know you aren't skorchie

[/QUOTE]


Who or what the heck is skorchie?

Don't get me wrong. WinMX has served me well (sorta like Windows 3.11), but now I know better too. I've tried every tweak and trick, but it just doesn't work when it doesn't want to. Like Isus said, it must be the dorkuses above me.

And by the way, I have tried to download the same files via WinMX on both my computers with the same slow results. I usually use two or more p2ps to download the same files and wait to see which one finishes first (sometimes two different computers, sometimes not)

I don't mind waiting at all for a file to download. It's just that I've been spoiled by that little jacksass in my taskbar.

For music I want NOW! - Kazaa Lite
For videos and everything else - eMule.
For stuff I can't find and don't mind waiting for - WinMX

I haven't tried anything else....yet.

What would really be kick ass is if emule or another p2p could rehash and use my WinMX incomplete files. Can this be done?

[phalkon30]

Originally posted by Hot Head
Who or what the heck is skorchie?
An asshole who has brought hell to this site, his only plus was that he knew WinMX very well, he also bragged about how great it was at every chance he got....it was a joke that most of the older members here might get, never mind really

[isus]

Originally posted by Evil_Dweller_01
Woah! Holy shit!
Talk about fast speeds!

fine, then you send me $400 so i can get a cable internet connection.

right now, it only costs about $180 a year to get 2.9kB/s. for a cable connection, i would hafta upgrade to digital cable, AND pay $600 a year. i think digital cable would cost about another $200 a year.

so no, im not paying $800 a year just to dl what i want faster. patience is learned, not inherited.

[Psilaxs]

Originally posted by isus
fine, then you send me $400 so i can get a cable internet connection.

right now, it only costs about $180 a year to get 2.9kB/s. for a cable connection, i would hafta upgrade to digital cable, AND pay $600 a year. i think digital cable would cost about another $200 a year.

so no, im not paying $800 a year just to dl what i want faster. patience is learned, not inherited.

It's worth it, TRUST ME

[nip]

Originally posted by condorloco
Kaazalite 100%
100% incomplete files!
100% virus-infected files!

[Cyberpukish]

i begin dling japanese stuff from winmx just a 2 days ago really fast the problem is that my hardisk cant catch up.... ;( i guess becos there are really ALOT of japanese using this software.... btw japanese DSL uploads are really fast so if u dig japanese babes opps.... erm.... i mean movies .... give win mx a try.

[Krell]

They can be very tough to deal with, I suggest anthing that you DL from them you also share back without changing the name, and you will find a lot of stuff from them being in your queue, then you browse them.

Do you like jpop? or japanese film?

[Cyberpukish]

yeah Krell i love japanese stuff (especially the gals ;P).... damn if only i knew the language... was thinking of taking it as an elective in school but its tuff if u have no background.... the whole exam paper is in jap! oh crap guess i have 2 find time to address that....

i share wat i can with them. i already max out my ul speed for the ppl who are dling from me. thanks for the advice !

[Krell]

I have some recomendations buried in these links

http://www.zeropaid.com/bbs/showthread.php?threadid=5785&perpage=15&highlight=ringu&pagenumber=3

http://www.zeropaid.com/bbs/showthread.php?threadid=8403&highlight=ringu

[Cyberpukish]

actually i am looking for GunHed ... very old B grade sci fi film from japan... hmmm maybe its J grade hahah i saw it in frontline assembly mindphaser music video which actually borrowed alot of scenes from the movie. this movie is very old if i am not wrong.... in the late80s.. Thanks Krell again for the links... i have yet to see Cowboy Bebop but judgin from the Animatrix 3rd episode on the detective, i believe it should be good.... its the same guy right?

[Hot Head]

Not a single byte in 2 days on QueMX. Then after waiting in a particular que as the 88th sucker...............BAAM! 30 megs flowed like manna from heaven...

...Then my wife cancelled the transmission by accident

Shhiiiiiiiiiiiittttttt!

Now I'm behind 96 others waiting for my shining moment to arrive.

What a %$#@ing joke.......

[Evil_Dweller_01]

Originally posted by Hot Head
Not a single byte in 2 days on QueMX. Then after waiting in a particular que as the 88th sucker...............BAAM! 30 megs flowed like manna from heaven...

...Then my wife cancelled the transmission by accident

Shhiiiiiiiiiiiittttttt!

Now I'm behind 96 others waiting for my shining moment to arrive.

What a %$#@ing joke.......

Hey.. that is NOT winmx's problem..

It's your wife's!

[SUprEMeBeiNg]

its not bad if they can fix the que problem their in business

[moonglow]

Originally posted by notbob
it does demonstrate a good point

winmx does not work well without constant babysitting--if you need a p2p that will keep working while you are gone, donkey/mule/overnet is ok, and so is dc

if it's the weekend and you have nothing better to do, winmx and grabbing a few files will give you plenty to do

I use WinMx. Queues are very long, but I am always able to find what I'm looking for there. And my downloading usually is on the weekends, when I have nothing better to do than sit and babysit and grab a few files.

[Hot Head]

Originally posted by Evil_Dweller_01
Hey.. that is NOT winmx's problem..

It's your wife's!


Yes, true, but the exhorbitantly long que's are the issue here.

For me, it's either hate the fricken' thing because there are no sources, or change the auto que to 100 so I can at least feel that I'm getting somewhere.....maybe.

But, I know, it depends on what you're looking for. I just have the unfortunate luck lately to want big files with not too many available sources that are badly wanted by a few other hundred scavengers like myself.

[Hot Head]

Originally posted by moonglow
I use WinMx. Queues are very long, but I am always able to find what I'm looking for there. And my downloading usually is on the weekends, when I have nothing better to do than sit and babysit and grab a few files.

I wish I could download what I wanted in one weekend's time.

[matstao]

I use several P2P apps, but WinMX is still my favorite. Yes there are Q's, & yes oftentimes waiting in them seems pointless.

Winmx is not an app that you can just install & immediately start downloading anything you want at lightning fast speeds. If you want the latest M&M single or Avril Lavigne's latest masterpiece, then Kazaa is the only way to go.

To use WinMX properly, it takes some getting used to. (as most good programs do). Learn the features & figure out what you want to do with them. I find so much amazing stuff on the opennap servers. Music from all over that I would have never even heard of.

Second, WinMX takes patience. You may not have the song you're looking for in 2 minutes, but when you wake up in the morning you may have several full albums. This morning I had "Orchestra Baobab" & "Shahin & Sepehr" waiting for me. Good luck finding anything by them on Kazaa, let alone full 192 bit albums. Also, a polite pm can often get a Q'd download started right away.

Anyway, WinMX isn't for everyone. Mountain Dew addicted youth looking for the instant gratification of downloading MTV pushed garbage should avoid it. Mature appreciators of varied music with some patience should at least use it as one of their mp3 sources.

[Theinfamousone]

Originally posted by isus
fine, then you send me $400 so i can get a cable internet connection.

right now, it only costs about $180 a year to get 2.9kB/s. for a cable connection, i would hafta upgrade to digital cable, AND pay $600 a year. i think digital cable would cost about another $200 a year.

so no, im not paying $800 a year just to dl what i want faster. patience is learned, not inherited.

Well, I'm paying $500 a year for my 2.5Mbit Cable. It's a sacrifice, but heck, when you've got NOTHING BETTER TO DO but sit on the computer every waking minute, it's dang worth it! I made $120 yesterday at work, that means, that I have to work for about 4 days to pay for my internet, I'd say it's WELL worth it. It pays for so much music, movies and *cough* software *cough*. Besides that, it saves me time! Say I would have to dial up oh, 3 times a day to check out zeropaid etc., each one takes 30 seconds, that means that every week I am wasting ten and a half minutes, over a year, I'm wasting 9.125 hours, I get paid $15 an hour, so that's $136.88 I'd be saving just in dialing time! LOL. I don't even want to think about how much time I'd waste babysitting downloads, like updates, or how much time I'd waste when I download a fake file (I downloaded one off DC yesterday, as a matter of fact, I find more fake files on DC these days then on Kazaa), and of course (heaven forbid) I'd have to pay for software.

By the time I added that $136.88 to what I'd be paying for dial up internet a year (probably $200 if I got some no name ISP, more if I wanted MSN or some bigger name), and bought a second phone line (atleast another $200 a year) because I can't let a minute go by without downloading something now, people could never call my family. I'd be far behind where I am now!

Oh yeah, besides that, it's so fun!

EDIT: Yes, Winmx has a lot of users, and they are slightly more tech savy then that of the average Kazaa user (although I wonder how stupid you'd have to be to use the program these days), but the difference is that FasTrack ROCKS and Winmx's protocol couldn't tie it's shoes if it had a manual!

What they need to do is have one day, all of the people connecting to Kazaa, actually connect on the Winmx protocol, and all of the people on Winmx connect to FastTrack, lol.

Maybe Winmx is going the way of DietKazaa, LOL, it's been beaten by superior programs and there's nothing left for it to do, their protocol sucks and they don't have enough money or time to fix it. They don't have ads or anything like Kazaa, so I don't know how they've even made it this far.

That's the beauty of Kazaa, the people are too stupid to leech, too stupid to know what adware and spyware is, and too stupid to hack their PL, then guys like us haul in the goods like no monyana (sp?).

DC is a love hate program, I got banned from the only hub I wanted to be in because I was sharing VOB files. How stupid is that? Grrrr.

I don't know about eDonkey, I wonder about it. In all theoretical intents and purposes it should be the best, but for some reason, it isn't that good. I mean, it requires people to share (like DC, which is why DC is good even though it lacks the masses of Kazaa) and it has lots of cool features like partial file sharing, still, it's queued to kingdom come.

I did a little test of my own with Winmx and Kazaa, downloaded the entire Spiderman TAS series on Kazaa, took one night. Not a single one was queued, they all came in at very fast speeds. Was about 8.5 Gigs totall, then I downloaded them all on Winmx, after 2 days there was not a single one completed (well, maybe 1 or 2 I don't really remember).

Winmx didn't even have some of the episodes. Also, try downloading Twilight Zone episodes on Winmx, it has some episodes that I haven't seen on Kazaa very often, but you'll sooner find the lost city of Atlantis than get any of the rare ones.

[Hot Head]

Originally posted by matstao
I use several P2P apps, but WinMX is still my favorite. Yes there are Q's, & yes oftentimes waiting in them seems pointless.

......FAST FORWARD, FAST FORWARD...


Anyway, WinMX isn't for everyone. Mountain Dew addicted youth looking for the instant gratification of downloading MTV pushed garbage should avoid it. Mature appreciators of varied music with some patience should at least use it as one of their mp3 sources.


Yes, pointless and a complete waste of time. To tell you the truth, I didn't know what eternity was until I tried downloading on QueMX for the very first time.

If you like to sit there and massage and tweak a P2P till you find an obscure piece of music, then more power to you. If QueMx was my only p2p, I would rather go out and buy a Shahin & Sepehr, Young & Rollins, Johannes Linstead or a Metallica.

Not to sound like a snot, but in my world, time is money. I am looking for "high yield." QueMx is not "high yield" enough for me. eMule, in my opinion, is a much, much better p2p not only technologically speaking, but for organizing and quickly finding sources to download. I never had to wait more than a few hours to find an available source with eMule. With QueMx we are talking days, if not weeks. Yeah, maybe you like to watch your grass grow too.

By the way, I am an adult (although my wife would disagree).

[Hot Head]

Originally posted by Theinfamousone
...That's the beauty of Kazaa, the people are too stupid to leech, too stupid to know what adware and spyware is, and too stupid to hack their PL, then guys like us haul in the goods like no monyana (sp?).

That's because most of them are kids. My son loves Kazaa. So do all of his friends. They also all have every computer virus known to man. And they NEVER share.

One day he couldn't find a video and decided to try QueMx. After about three minutes, he asked me, "How come it's taking so long to download?" .

You should have seen his face when I tried to explain what a que was.

[matstao]

Hothead, (which seems to be a very well chosen name), I'm not trying to argue with you. I was simply expressing how I use WinMX.

All of your complaints have been posted here hundreds of times already. If you don't like WinMX, then don't use it.

[moonglow]

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Originally posted by moonglow
I use WinMx. Queues are very long, but I am always able to find what I'm looking for there. And my downloading usually is on the weekends, when I have nothing better to do than sit and babysit and grab a few files.
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Originally posted by Hot Head
I wish I could download what I wanted in one weekend's time.

It's an on-going, continuous process. I don't download all I want in one weekend; the time will never come when I can say I have downloaded all I want. But when I am looking for something in particular, I have always been able to find it at WinMx. So while the i dislike the queues, i put up with them as long as I can find what I am looking for.

[Hot Head]

Originally posted by matstao
Hothead, (which seems to be a very well chosen name), I'm not trying to argue with you. I was simply expressing how I use WinMX.

All of your complaints have been posted here hundreds of times already. If you don't like WinMX, then don't use it.


You are absolutely right. I'm sorry I missed the hundreds of posts.

[Evil_Dweller_01]

Originally posted by Hot Head
That's because most of them are kids. My son loves Kazaa. So do all of his friends. They also all have every computer virus known to man. And they NEVER share.

One day he couldn't find a video and decided to try QueMx. After about three minutes, he asked me, "How come it's taking so long to download?" .

You should have seen his face when I tried to explain what a que was.

Woah.. dude!
At least tell them to get K++!

[Hot Head]

yes, K++. That's the one. No spies or ad bullchit.

I just call it kazaa, forgetting that I'm with strangers.

[isus]

Originally posted by Psilaxs
It's worth it, TRUST ME

im sure it is... but i dont have the money :( and my parents won't pay for it. but soon i will be getting a laptop, so i will take it to my school, which has t1 :) :) :)

(actually, it's partial t1, shared between the county, but i can get about 200kB/s on it)

[Mel_Smiley]

I just cant help but wonder why Quemx (love the name there) works so well for me and so awful for others.

[Hot Head]

Yeah, mine looks like that too.....

.......for the people downloading off of me.

[isus]

Originally posted by Mel_Smiley
I just cant help but wonder why Quemx (love the name there) works so well for me and so awful for others.

lol... not as though you dont have enough files dl'ing already... i wish i could dl that many files at those speeds from my house :(

[chipperrox]

Originally posted by Theinfamousone
Well, I'm paying $500 a year for my 2.5Mbit Cable. It's a sacrifice, but heck, when you've got NOTHING BETTER TO DO but sit on the computer every waking minute, it's dang worth it! I made $120 yesterday at work, that means, that I have to work for about 4 days to pay for my internet, I'd say it's WELL worth it. pay for software.



yea but since you live in the US of A
about half of that 120 dollars goes to taxes, so you'd actually have to work for a little more than a week... plus im sure you gotta eat and that is about 15-25 bucks a day average, depending on what you eat, so there your down to 35, unless you own a house, you probably have to pay for an apartment, and you probably buy something once in a while so your fuckin broke man

besides that tho, cable is cool- i personally have adsl
cable just isnt for everyone.

[phalkon30]

Originally posted by Mel_Smiley
I just cant help but wonder why Quemx (love the name there) works so well for me and so awful for others.
Damn thats trippy lookin....

[chipperrox]

Originally posted by phalkon30
Damn thats trippy lookin....

dude..
my thoughts exactly
stared at that thing for about 10 minutes- tryin to figure out what the hell it was and why was it so colorful :- ¡

[Mel_Smiley]

LOL! Had a little fun with photoshop!

[isus]

Originally posted by Mel_Smiley
LOL! Had a little fun with photoshop!

lol... looks like you had more than 'a little fun' to me. lol. it would be cool if winmx could look like that without inverting colors...

[Hot Head]

5 weeks, 2 hours, 16 minutes, 32 seconds and 650 megs later, a file I so badly wanted finally got completed on quemx.

Folks, drinks are on me...

Slippery Nipples for everybody!

[Evil_Dweller_01]

Heh.. this is the first time I'm downloading a movie off of Winmx and I must say it ain't bad.. on kazaa++ you couldn't even find this because it was either cam or a fake.. and here its perfect quality screener pulling at 20k right now.. not bad

[nip]

WinMX is just like eDonkey/eMule. Just start it in the morning and in the evening most (if not all) your wanted files are downloading.

[Evil_Dweller_01]

Originally posted by nip
WinMX is just like eDonkey/eMule. Just start it in the morning and in the evening most (if not all) your wanted files are downloading.

Exactly... except I probably can get a movie faster off of winmx then off of emule.. still love both though =)

[Hot Head]

Originally posted by nip
WinMX is just like eDonkey/eMule. Just start it in the morning and in the evening most (if not all) your wanted files are downloading.

Woudn't that be great !

Unfortunately for me, I've had major bad luck with MX lately. And it's not just one or two files or even me. My files spend days in ques of 50+ only to get down to 3 and.....PUFF!....The que clock gets reset, but only this time at 98.

I suppose it's just the particular file you're downloading. I'm sure I can download a shitload of common mp3's or videos with the blazingly supernatural speeds you guys are getting.

Slowly each day, the files I'm downloading on MX are showing up on eMule. Once I find them all, MX is getting uninstalled. ( I just hate to waste 50 to 60 percent of a download and start over.)

Unless of course, this new version everybody's been talking about gets here before the Second Coming.

[Wings_of_Azrael]

I was looking through my installed programs earlier and something didn't seem right. It was that I didn't have WinMX installed. On every computer I've had before this one, WinMX was installed, usually one of the first applications I'd download. I haven't missed it at all until I read this thread. Now I'm tempted to screw around with it again. If I do, I'll probably use different ports, because it worked horribly/hardly worked the last time I used it with its default ports. I get better speeds from eDonkey nowadays than I did with WinMX.

Hmm, I haven't a clue what I would download though. I have enough porn to last a lifetime and downloaded music from months ago that I have yet to digest.

[nip]

Originally posted by Hot Head
Woudn't that be great !

Unfortunately for me, I've had major bad luck with MX lately. And it's not just one or two files or even me. My files spend days in ques of 50+ only to get down to 3 and.....PUFF!....The que clock gets reset, but only this time at 98.
Try MxMonitor, it's a great add-on to WinMX. Currently, WinMX works better for me than eMule. There are weeks where it's the other way round.

[Djm912]

WinMX. Yeah, sure. Find just about any file, but downloading? Good luck!

Don't you just love how when you wait in a queue for a few hours, which isn't really a problem, and then when you think the file is about to start downloading, 'Connection Refused' shows up, or the file just goes red. Fucking great, right?

This new version better be good. I'm going to give WinMX one last chance with this file. If something like that crap happens again, I'm done with it.

[reg]

... kinda funny ... i was thinking about all the talk in this thread about winmx's long, longer & longest queues. i went to winmx to find a song & like everyone here has said, i know whenever i go, there will be queues & i know i will have to wait ... well, i entered my request & found what i was looking for ... clicked on it & it immediately started downloading!!! i almost fell off my chair!!! i'm thinking, is this for real??? & it was!!! hehe ... not funny?? oh well, guess you just had to be here ... :upside

[noxiousneo]

Just d/l QuickMX! It makes d/ls a LOT faster!!
:cross

-NoX-

[Theinfamousone]

Originally posted by reg0232
... kinda funny ... i was thinking about all the talk in this thread about winmx's long, longer & longest queues. i went to winmx to find a song & like everyone here has said, i know whenever i go, there will be queues & i know i will have to wait ... well, i entered my request & found what i was looking for ... clicked on it & it immediately started downloading!!! i almost fell off my chair!!! i'm thinking, is this for real??? & it was!!! hehe ... not funny?? oh well, guess you just had to be here ... :upside

Yeah, I have had somewhat good luck with music. But any program is good for music these days with so many people on broadband and there being millions of people sharing and all. But it's real downside is when you're trying to get high demanded but rarely shared videos. Stuff like "The Twilight Zone". Good luck. I've gotten well over a hundred off Kazaa in just a few days, but it would take me months or longer to do the same thing on Queumx.

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Originally posted by Hot Head
Because I was having such crappy results with WinMX, I decided to conduct a little experiment:

I have two computers in my home office each with its own dedicated broadband connection and same OS, firewalls, antivirus, ports, etc. On one computer I used WinMX to download 9 video files of varying lengths and two common mp3 files. I did the exact same thing on my other computer, but instead of WinMX I used eMule. Altogether there is a total of 5.391 gigs of files.

In roughly 22 hours since I started, these are my download results:

eMule = approx 745 megs (close to 1 gig)
WinMX = approx 7.2 megs (close to nothing)


Some of you may say that it's the settings, the firewall, the antivirus software, the connection, bad luck, the time of day, the stars, the moon or whatever. I say it's WinMX. Sometimes its super fast but most of the time it's a slow as a three-legged cow....at least for me.

Of course, this little experiement is highly unscientific and not long enough to draw firm conclusions, but the fact is this: I GET MORE STUFF FROM OTHER P2PS THAN I DO FROM WINMX.

I agree totally.

Winmx is nothing but endless waiting. Emule is slow, but it's sure. I wouldn't use anything else.

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WinMx used to be a really good program. Now you have lonng wait time to download a file. It a interview a few mths ago, they promised that a new version was coming out. Where is the new version.............It still has not come out. One thing that I liked about WinMx was that you could download albums. Back then it was a much shorter wait time. I miss that. I now have switched to another program. I still try WinMx from time to time, but always give up after 45 minutes or so. It has been a good program in the past and I hope the update comes out soon and it becomes a great program again.

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PEACE TO ALL