WTF is with this biatch?

[Roamerick]

Man, I'm bummed.

I started with WinMX and it looked full of promise, but over the last week it's become slower, slower, SLOWER... and more and more unreliable.

It seems to progressively find less sources for the same five films I've been trying to download for the last week. Every morning I wake up to it either crawling at 0.6KB/s on one file or with all the files red and on [auto complete]. If I manually search for sources, I come back 8 hours later with this stupid program waiting in a single queue at place 24 or something. Find sources again, and it's sometimes lucky to find six or seven from which to remotely queue... Only to slowly lose them until it's stuck on a single queue again.

Bottom line - nothing downloads properly. Queues are getting longer and longer. Traders are pissing me off, and as soon as one film is done I'm kicking this one to the curb. It's just not smart enough to realise that just because it's 24th on a remote queue there couldn't be another ten users to download from.

Either this program gets smarter and more aggressive with its auto-retry, or it will join the massive heap of failed P2P software.

Pity, cause in the first few days after launch it was rocking at ridiculous speeds! I got 70% of a 700MB film in the first day, and I'm still trying to get the last 30%. Crap.

By the way I'm on DSL 512, primary connection, WinXP, ZoneAlarm Pro.

[John W. Lindh]

WinMX is kind of overhyped. - I've had faster downloads using Bearshare.

[PALMela HANDerson]

..., WinMX 3.1 is fantastis for me (cable, Win2kPro). I cannot ask it to do anymore for me. I get fantastic download speeds, AND sources. Although, sometimes I get fake sources. For example, I wanted a music video, and instead, I got a porno. You can prevent this by browsing through the person that you are downloading from (the new source). Then, go through it and see if the file has the same title as yours. Lastly, I would rather watch my Grandma take a huge dump in the kitchen sink than use Bearshare.

[John W. Lindh]

kind of narrow-minded, aren't you?

[Roamerick]

John, at least Palm has provided some kind of contribution. Personally I avoid both BearShare and Limewire, opting instead for the vastly superior (well, as of a day or two ago) Gnucleus.

No Java, faster, nice multi-windowed approach, and evolving faster than a bacteria culture under radiation. Nice.

[Renesis]

Roamerick knows what he's talking about. Gnuke whips a llama's ass better then WinAmp. And alot of people whip that llama multiple times when they first DL WinAmp, so that's saying alot.

Also, I have found that there are some bugs with my WinMX 3.1 that I have found others have had as well. The worst being the appearance of phantom files in directories that don't exist that appear when people browse you. They don't appear in your shared files manager, or in other p2p programs. I adaware and run updated antivirus, and my PC is clean accordoing to them. In a few hours of browsing people on chat and messaging them to ask about funky out of place looking directories, I found at least half a dozen people with the same problem. This is a bad bug.

[Renesis]

But don't get me wrong, I like WinMX 3.1, it downloads fine for me. And it option set is great. The chat, while not as cool or functional as IRC, is great for finding people with files to share that you are looking for, as well as a great way to kill time. And it's search functionality is second to none in my opinion.

Hopefully they iron some of the bugs out in future updates.

[calvin and hobbes]

Try De-activating Zone Alarm Pro. Zone Alarm has caused me nothing but trouble, espesially with WinMx. Just deactivate and see what happens.

For the most part, do you really think someone is interested in your computer?

Hackers in general are looking for bigger fish in the sea.

[Roamerick]

Wether ZoneAlarm is active or not, WinMX still screws up. I've given it up for dead at the moment but here's an interesting thing: I've set gnucleus and Xolox in another race - same files, overnight. Xolox beat gnucleus hands down. Gnucleus consistently fails to maintain download links, and has a bug in it which makes it re-query dead servers forever. Let's hope they fix it soon....

[Renesis]

Originally posted by calvin and hobbes
For the most part, do you really think someone is interested in your computer?

Hackers in general are looking for bigger fish in the sea.

Yeah man, and they get those bigger fish by going through someone elses PC.

[Z7895123Z]

I have reached the same conclusion comparing XoloX and Gnucleus and I have been running the new XoloX Beta 1.18 and I use it the most. As far as WinMX goes I unloaded 2.62 a long time ago because I was tired of waiting for the new release. The new version is now installed and it is much better and faster. Occasionally WinMX does cause a conflict with the True Vector service of ZoneAlarm and Widows will shut down the True Vector Service. It does not always happen and I have not determined what the problem is, although it has always occurred when it is attempting to log onto Open Nap Servers.

If I had to make a choice between a ZoneAlarm or WinMX I am afraid I would pick ZoneAlarm. My understanding of Security is above average and I would not consider being on the Internet without at least as a minimum a Personal Firewall.

[buzz_ny]

Well, I've had no problems with ZoneAlarm from day 1. It seems Win2K users may be better off than others for once, that may be helping..

[mfgbypooter]

Originally Posted by Roamerick

Either this program gets smarter and more aggressive with its auto-retry, or it will join the massive heap of failed P2P software.

Looks like it's headed that way.

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[Mels_Smileys45]

Anyone else keeping an eye on PieMx or whatever its gonna be called. Its getting really stupid, all th fighting going on behind the scenes. Its seems Vladd44 and team will be releasing something around oct.31. Not sure what really, some kinda updated winmx called MxPie or PieMx, fuck who knows.

[Sparky9]

Well if vladd44 releases it, i'll use it. i've known him since 2002 and i trust him