Kazaa

If you don't run a firewall, there's no need for you needing to change anything. If you do run a firewall, what firewall do you run? (and why people still use Kazaa is beyond me).

If you know of something better than kazaa i am open to ideas. but no I don't run a firewall other than the one that comes with sp-2.

soulseek is my favorite. you have to be patient to use it (you can only download a file from one user at a time, so kiss those those blazing fast multiple-source downloads goodbye) but the selection is pretty damn good, and the usership is typically non-kiddie.

for me, it all boils down to selection and ease of finding files. download speed take a big backseat to those. if bittorrent were easier to use (easier to find torrents of obscure music and the like) and was less retarded (having to keep torrents open for others dl from is its biggest flaw) then bt would be all i'd use. but for music, it's gotta be soulseek. i'll leave anime and movies to bt.

You probably have to reinstall it.

I actually thought they got rid of kazaa altogether, put hey i guess i was wrong, look what you can learn on forums

soulseek for sure

kazaa is still huge and has become todays old-napster equivalent for small time downloaders. baboon are you sure that sp2 is not blocking that port and also that your isp is possibly not regulating traffic to that port? as i know some isp's are now putting up restrictions to popular ports such as 1214 to protect themselves from user-end liability and the whole music crusade).
a possible alternative would be WinMX, which is another major p2p decentralised application or make a subscription with one of the many developing all-you-can-eat music subscription services popping up as an alternative to licenced music files.

i heard of something called 'bear share'
thats supposed to be pretty good.. maybe you should check that out.

visionleague™

I've tried WinMX, seems to work exactly like Kazaa. Actually it brought up a couple more results when I did the same search on both of them. But then it wouldn't download, still might be worth a try though, it might work for you. I've heard eMule is really good, it brings up a lot of results on hard to find stuff. But that didn't work for me either lol. But both those applications work on other people's computers, so again might be worth a try.

Yea, i've heard of some of those two. I actually live in a dorm and my roommate can download stuff on kazaa but I can't. Same connection, different computers. I don't have any firewalls on my computer except for that which comes with SP2 but It should be disabled. I dunno....

You should check if it's disabled. And isn't there some sort of thing on SP2 that doesn't let you do any file transferring on Kazaa. I could have sworn I heard about it.

I seem to have a similar problem with all of them and that is they can't connect to the server or something like that. I tried soul seek, winMX, kazaa, the works. I dunno...

After googling for a few minutes I've seen on many pages that you need to [B]DISABLE[/B] the firewall in SP2 for P2P programs to work. And/or [B]ENABLE the port that Kazaa connects through.

Many pages that say*

Grr...

A-ha I found this "patch" I was looking for. There seems to be a need to "patch" your tcpip.sys file.

Look five posts down.
http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=25308&st=10

That there claims to be the fix to the P2P problem. But I would strongly suggest backing up those files first.

Sorry for the triple post...again I wish there was a edit button. >_

eMule is my choice if I must go the P2P way, and BT is getting more and more popular (which bitcomet is one the best BT client)

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...ah no edit button, Doesn't SP2 ask you do you want to continue blocking the program when you start Kazaa? and offer you yes and no?

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i think AZUREUS is the best torrent client. soulseek also rocks. azureus is the king for anime. newest episodes!

Go for Limewire. One of the better with still a reasonable download speed.

Yes, SP2 does ask if I want to block it or not and I always click no.

Pyro thanks a bunch for your help. I went to that website and found the files but i am clueless as to how to put those files to good use. Would you mind explaining? Thanks

Okay well I THINK you've got to get those files together. Part1 and part2 that is, then extract tcpip.sys file. Then you must backup your original tcpip.sys file. Then you replace the one you've extracted with the one you have on your system. Which you can do through safe mode I'm sure. But since I don't use SP2 and I've never replaced a .SYS file I don't know how well it'll go. Just ALWAYS make a backup.

im surprised noone has mentioned shareaza. it searche sthe edonkey/emule netowrk, and also a couple other ones. make sure your SP2 tcpip.sys file is patched with the thing above and that you've made the correct exceptions for the right ports in your firewall. you should read throug This:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=875357

and make sure you've taken all the steps it mentions, mainly the Configuring Windows Firewall by using the Windows Security Center one.

why not try mIRC or any other IRC client. with the help of IRCspy.com and ISOhunt.com ... there's nothing you can't find. It is slow but kazaa isn't really the fastest thing in the world.

Then there was me...

Pyro, what do you mean by get them together?

Soulseek all the f'in way!!

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MAYA

I guess I'll throw my hat into the ring and reccomend Ares, available at http://www.aresgalaxy.org/ . The Lite version is free, fast, and easy to use. Great selection also, and it's the only thing that will connect through my school's network.

I found one BETTER than Soulseek--

the NEW LIMEWIRE is by far the best for music downloading

"Don't kill yourself, kill other people."

i agree with farm limewire is way better than kazaa ever was.

Piracy is bad.

(avast ye matey! ARRRRG!)
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Yeah, check out Bear Share if you like your entire system being fucked up, by trojans, spyware, and loads of malware.


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Go with eMule. It is definetly the largest network, with more users going to emule all the time (more sources and content :) also Its Open Source, so no hidden nasties, its free, and you can contribute in the ever changing world of P2P and filesharing :)

fractal.design

This thread is ancient, buddy. Check the post dates before you revive a thread.