spudthedestroyer wrote: |
Just remoted into my box in the uk and am pretty appauled by the performance of the client:
Down: 0.3 KB/s (243|105), 334.3M Up: 14.7 KB/s (429|14580), 22.88G
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This leads me to the conclusion that emule is only really the viable / usable client for the ed2k network. What are people's experience on non-emule clients? |
I dropped edonkey long ago in favour of bittorrent. The bittorrent protocol might have its shortcomings, but the developer community is far less elitist and the protocol far more open. It is relatively easy to implement and there is no discriminations amoung trackers or other clients as long as at a minimum standard is maintained.
With edonkey on the other hand, I was present from the very beginnings when mldonkey was the first non-official client at all. It had its problems since the protocol was not open and had to be reverse engineered. Then came emule and added its own extensions to the protocol. And more than once I thought what a bunch of assholes the developers and especially the server maintainer were. Keeping things secret, implementing ways to favour the own client and 'rape' others. Thanks, but no thanks. I stopped using mldonkey or any other edonkey clients when I was sick of being used as seedbox, while I had to wait ages to get what I want. Strangely, though shunned by other clients when it came to downloads, I never had problems to upload. Noone can tell me that this is only a coincidence.