Bit Torrent or Limewire?

[xXChemicalDreamingXx]

I was wondering if you used Bit Torrent or Limewire to download things. Or, which one is better if you've used both?

[Vangs]

Depends on what you're downloading and your operating system. BitTorrent is terrible, it will take every ounce of your net speed regardless of what else you have running, so while using it expect to not be able to browse. Limewire is a good peer-to-peer program, but it has been saturated with commercial ads, while I understand why they have done it, it still doesn't take away the fact that it is immensely annoying, also the ads are styled exactly the same as normal results, so you can't tell unless you mouse over for your tool tip.

If you run Windows, I'd recommend you go for BitComet over BitTorrent, for Linux I'd recommend KTorrent.

[Natsumi]

Like Vans said, it depends on what you're downloading.  I always use LimeWire for music (but you can yield alot of crap/spam and porn at times). But LimeWire is definitely one of the better Peer to Peer programs out there.

[xXChemicalDreamingXx]

I see.
I do use Limewire for my music only. I used to use it for everything, but I use BitTorrent. By the sounds of it, I should be using BitComet instead, though.
Thank you for your help!

[americanangel]

Depends on what you're downloading and your operating system. BitTorrent is terrible, it will take every ounce of your net speed regardless of what else you have running, so while using it expect to not be able to browse. Limewire is a good peer-to-peer program, but it has been saturated with commercial ads, while I understand why they have done it, it still doesn't take away the fact that it is immensely annoying, also the ads are styled exactly the same as normal results, so you can't tell unless you mouse over for your tool tip.

If you run Windows, I'd recommend you go for BitComet over BitTorrent, for Linux I'd recommend KTorrent.

I use uTorrent, which is a bittorrent...thing. I personally don't trust limewire, and prefer DC++ instead for music downloading. There's hubs for just about anything you could want - I used to use a personal hub just for my old school which was nice...and it has a chatroom for the whole hub that you can use like mIRC ^_^. Its much faster than bittorrents are for downloading and safer than limewire from what I understand.

[xXChemicalDreamingXx]

I see. Sounds much better than Limewire.
I'll be sure to check that out soon.
Thank you!

[Hazel_keys]

I use neither.
I never heard of Bit torrent and Limewire destroyed my computer's hard drive three times.
I use Emule, it has more choices when choosing your song and/or video...but if you don't choose your song and/or video, it'll take a long time to load.

[Vangs]

Well what do you expect from using these kinds of programs? While their use is pretty legal, everyone uses them in an illegal fashion, and as such, a lot of viruses are distributed to deter people from using them in such a manner. Those who get affected with the viruses though have no-one to blame but themselves. Firstly, the viruses can only affect Windows, the viruses won't affect Linux or Mac, so get a real Operating System. Secondly, if you do decide to use Windows, you should have efficient Anti-Virus and Anti-Spyware programs, otherwise you're just asking to have your computer wrecked.

[assie-chan]

Firstly, the viruses can only affect Windows, the viruses won't affect Linux or Mac, so get a real Operating System.

Woo, go Linux, go! :D I don't think there's much reason to stay on Windows anymore. Linux has most of the features the average person needs:"FrostWire," the Linux "Limewire" equivelent, "Open Office," which will read nearly all your files, Konversation, which is your IRC, Kopete/GAIM as your MSN/AIM/Yahoo!, etc programs, and WINE which will emulate most Windows programs and allow you to run .exe's.

If you need Adobe Photoshop CS2 (which WINE can't emulate properly, God knows why), then buy a Mac. Not like I'm fond of Macs or anything, but companies have started to invest in them, so you can find more software for them.

Personally, I use FrostWire (which connects to the same network as LimeWire, and hence exactly the same results), because BitTorrent is all screwed up for me. >_>"

[Mirandel]

I use Limewire for music only. But if I want the whole album and I'm not able to get it from the stores, I use uTorrent. For anime I use uTorrent.

[shai-shai]

I'd say Limewire, its faster and been better for me than Bit Torrent. They have their pros and cons but I much rather like searching for more items then just getting a torrent and trying to download from it.

[Saku-pu]

I used to use LimeWire but I stopped because after a while it gave me a virus 

[silentelysium]

Hmm... I always download with high quantity music and so I don't use limewire. I used UTorrent all the time. It's a very reliable piece of P2P software and probably allows maximum downloads. Bitcomet is TERRIBLE. It's so slow that it takes so many days just to download stuff. 

[digitalwings]

I use Bit Torrent only to download complete seacons on anime for my friends so that we can make AMVs. As for music, I use Ares. Only because I always have my computer on and it never slows anything down for me. Plus, it get me my music for my AMVs because I refuse to search through my giant stack of cds. (Last I check I had 700 something music cds). I am a bit of a music fanatic so thats why I use Ares.

[Robot Zero]

I like torrenting over P2P. For P2P, I use eMule. For torrents, uTorrent. I used to use ABC, but it just stopped working all of a sudden.