Which Client is Most Popular?

On the Upload page there is a link called "Uploads" that will open the stats info into your web browser. It is only in the newest couple of versions of BearShare.
 
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"this whole thing was done by hand" Man, you are hard-core. I would never think about doing that if I had to do it all by hand. I was counting multiple downloads in the file and GB counts, so one IP is downloading an average of 3.85 files from me.

Even though I do not have any videos I still have good range in file size, including a good number of larger zip files that are comparable to video sizes. I don't have any data about download bandwidth to clients. But I do get a good range of download bandwidths from other people. Since my connection is really fast I never get enough uploads at once to reach my max uploads, so they never get a busy signal from me, even though I have larger files that take people a long time to download. So my system is never held up.

I don't have any porn, but I don't think that is client specific.
 
If you could somehow record the ip and the client used when you do a search, you could get the data about what client people who share files tend to use.


I can do this fairly easily... I'll have this code running within a day or 2. I've been hacking around with the Gnucleus code for the past week or so and I've already added a mySQL database interface to it.

I originally added this interface to store statistics on query packets so I could detect a bot thats been scanning me which has resulted in me and my isp getting threatening letters from DCMA - Mediaforce. I plan on detecting the IP addresses they scan from and making these addresses public information so we can all block connect requests from these pricks... but more on that later.

Anyways, I just stumbled in here and read this thread and thought I could help. If anyone is interested, I can make my new IP/client logger version of Gnucleus available to anyone who wants to run it and feed data into a mySQL database. Then I'll publish the results weekly or whenever.

Let me know if anyone wants this
 
I am not smiling

What are you talking about? There was only 0.61% that were not compatible enough to be identified.

The biggest error would be that the data only came from one location over the space of a few days.
 
A tool that collects info about the clients that share would be cool! I'm using BearShare, and there you can log those who download from you.
Out of the 3584 Distinct IPs that've downloaded from me the last three weeks,
45% had BearShare
41% had LimeWire
6% had Gnotella
4% had Gnucleus
3% had MyNapster

I'm sorry to say, but I would've voted in favour of BearShare.
 
LMAO

That's the funniest thing I've ever heard.

Java is gay, the only thing it's good for is portability.

Think about this... Limewire is written in Java. This is probably it's main strength, and it's main weakness. The good thing is, it can run on Windows, Mac/MacOSX, or Linux. The bad thing about it is ... well, it's Java. Even with the ability to run on any platform, and lots of cutting edge features, Limewire, comes in at, what, third now? Behind Bearshare and Morpheus? (I could be wrong about the coming in third, but that's the way I see it.) Java may be good if you're not running Windows, and you can't find any decent native software to run on your machine, but other than that.... bleh.

If I was running a Mac or Linux, though, I'd be using Limewire in a heartbeat.
 
Ya, you are right I am not very consistent with the terminology I need to work on that. If it is a little confusing to a Senior Member then I bet it would be really confuse to a Junior Member.
 
Zeroshadow,

What client are you using to do the tests? I ask because I know some seem to "seek out there own kind" on the g-net (cough*bearshare*cough). Whether this is intentional or by an accident of protocol may be an open question, but the end result is they cluster together which can easily skew any results. After all, in order download, you must first search, and your more likely to get results from nearby peers. A better test would be for some of the centrally located reflectors to monitor the traffic. Most search results do now include extra client info with them.

This being said, I'd still fully expect BearShare to be in the lead simply because of how much it's promoted. Still, as anyone who's looked at the top 40 recently could tell you, popularity != quality. Anyone remember how long it took to get people to stop using the original Gnutella even though it was completely abandoned and even hurting the network? It takes a great deal of time and effort to change the public mindshare.

Actually I'm suddenly seeing a lot of SwapNut myself. Anyone know where their site is?
 
i had limeshare beartella and gnowire they all worked so and so
then i went to the donkey2000 and loved it and its speed and multiple segmented downloads.
after a while i came across xolox and exept for some randomly crashes (what can be ctrl alt & del shut down and then without problem restarted) it is the fastest and best of all gnutella clients.
it connects in seconds
nothing to do if you work behind zonealarm it configures automaticaly
finds things much faster and the downloadspeed with dsl is awsome.

check it out, you will love it
costa
 
Yes, please make your IP logger version available to everyone.
I would be very interested in using it and it would be a good way to make those statistics all are talking about in this thread.
 
gnut is performing very well!
How about gnut?
The programmer has some good ideas about optimizing network performance http://www.gnutelliums.com/linux_unix/gnut/doc/gnut-6.html
 
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