Comments on: Mac Question Session: P2P Software

By: DD

DD — Tue, 27 Sep 2005 13:32:46 +0000

Here’s a few p2p apps
XNap (connects to the same network as WinMX)
mlMac
Poisoned
DirectConnect

Check out http://www.pure-mac.com for more p2p apps

By: Nathan

Nathan — Thu, 27 Jan 2005 19:39:34 +0000

Cabos ... it's the new kid on the block, but it works well for me.

By: Hafiz Muhtar

Hafiz Muhtar — Thu, 27 Jan 2005 18:27:05 +0000

I have to say Xfactor for P2P. I’ve tried some other programs but its Xfactor that works best for me.

By: nick

nick — Thu, 27 Jan 2005 15:39:21 +0000

aquisition, limewire, and bittorrent os x (http://bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent/)

By: Kenneth

Kenneth — Thu, 27 Jan 2005 15:00:21 +0000

Acquisition looks alright. You can’t really go wrong with Gnutella, so it has my vote (installed, but I haven’t used it yet).

But do you really need anything other than bittorrent? Free, native to just about every platform, easy to use. If you don’t like the barebones default version, get Azureus. It works great and looks nice-ish.

And Limewire’s not bad in a pinch.

By: Rob

Rob — Thu, 27 Jan 2005 13:20:34 +0000

I concur with the posters above, Acquisition is my favorite Mac P2P program by far.

By: mikey

mikey — Thu, 27 Jan 2005 13:16:33 +0000

i’d go with the above:

azureus is a hard-to-beat BT client.

poisoned used to be good, but hasn’t worked for me lately.

don’t rule out frogblast (hotline)

By: shaky

shaky — Thu, 27 Jan 2005 06:48:33 +0000

I use xfactor too. Pretty happy. For ED2K I use the beta Mac GUI. For BT, I use Azureus.

By: Nathan Nutter

Nathan Nutter — Thu, 27 Jan 2005 05:08:02 +0000

I'll refer you to Mac P2P Guide and then on to Poisoned, a OpenFT/giFT client (Kazaa). Hopefully, eXeem will develop a Mac client soon, it is a P2P BitTorrent client, i.e. Kazaa powered by a decentralized BitTorrent.

By: Ian Horner

Ian Horner — Thu, 27 Jan 2005 03:24:42 +0000

I’ve recently tried XFactor, and I’ve been very happy with its connectivity to various networks, and its Mac-like interface. The dealmaker though, is its support for Growl, a wonderful systemwide notification utility.

By: Cortland Klein

Cortland Klein — Thu, 27 Jan 2005 03:08:30 +0000

Acquisition (Gnutella), mlMac (eDonkey2000), Azureus (BitTorrent)

By: Si

Si — Thu, 27 Jan 2005 02:19:26 +0000

soulseeX - native Soulseek (my favourite music network) client for OS X. Looks great too.

By: Carl Jonard

Carl Jonard — Thu, 27 Jan 2005 02:03:18 +0000

Acquisition. The most Mac-like by far.