I want my shareaza restored to it's previous glory.

**axeman61** · February 6th, 2005, 12:29 AM

Hello guys. I'm new (just signed up) and it's great to be here.

To get my story started we have to go back. Before I got my new computer (one that totally rapes the old one), Shareaza was my best bet for downloading, even over Kazaa Lite K++. It's download ratio wasn't nearly as high as Kazaa Lite K++, but back then KLK was a system resource hog and didn't get a quarter as many results as Shareaza.
Now, on my new computer (my old one was 5 years old mind you), there's a lot of stuff that can be done. I have 4 P2P programs right now: Shareaza, Limewire, Ares, and KLK++ (I operate each of them sparingly). Of all them, Shareaza is the prettiest and has the friendliest user interface by far, but is now only worth the occasional music download that I can't seem to get anywhere else. KLK++ (no longer a hog) alone gets a lot more stuff than Shareaza now.
So, I'm looking to probably restore Shareaza into competition with these other 3 programs. I've run the wizard so that all my settings are at their defaults, and broadbandreports.com says that my download speed is 150.7 KB/s, while my upload speed is 38.6 KB/s.
I don't know all of the problems and settings, but I can tell you one possible one: People seem to be cutting off the balls of my download before it's even finished; I was downloading a video, and people were downloading the partial download I had just mere minutes after I started. I think that's a problem. It doesn't seem to go away no matter what I do with the settings.

John W. Lindh · February 6th, 2005, 06:45 AM

Originally Posted by axeman61

I don't know all of the problems and settings, but I can tell you one possible one: People seem to be cutting off the balls of my download before it's even finished; I was downloading a video, and people were downloading the partial download I had just mere minutes after I started. I think that's a problem. It doesn't seem to go away no matter what I do with the settings.

That behaviour is intended both ed2k clients and Shareaza will cut your download off regularly and put you to the end of the queue. You might wanna try SlingerX ( http://www.slingerx.com ) though, it's basically Shareaza, but I'm told it's a little faster.