Kazaa Firewall Settings?

[Gurm]

What ports do I have to open up for optimal Kazaa use?

- Gurm

[isochar]

http://groups.google.com/groups?q=firewall+open+ports+kazaa&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&selm=Xns93758B275D9B3donut%40216.102.43.227&rnum=3

Seems that it wants a whole $hitload of ports open to be happy. The bare minimum looks like port 1214.

[Gurm]

Jesus H. Christ, there is NO way I'm opening up 3000 ports for Kazaa!

- Gurm

[UtwigMU]

You don't want to run Kazaa.
You don't want to open up ports for it.

What you want is DC++ and nice privete hub.

I'm shocked, really. Gurm (the basher of crappy software) running Kazaa, what has become of this world.

[GT98]

Never had much luck with DC

Rather use NNTP or kazza

[Gurm]

I like being able to find all the MP3's I want.

You wanna write up a nice walkthrough for setting up DC++ so that I can find really obscure stuff on it just like on Kazaa, I'll be willing to switch.

- Gurm

[Helevitia]

What about WinMX?

Dave

[The PIT]

Why mp3 sound like they're coming through the dustbin anyway.

[UtwigMU]

You need to get on private hub that's usually hidden and passworded and dedicated to your area of interest and usually has forum for chat and requests.

[Technoid]

Originally posted by Helevitia
What about WinMX?

Dave

I took one look at the UI and almost threw up

Much Worse than dc++: all the files you want but you can't get em

[Rob(QG)]

Edonkey/emule is getting better for music - complete albums only though, single-track MP3s are still very hard to get. It's also ideally suited to lossless compressed albums (in APE format for instance).

[Paddy]

So going off on a slight tangent,

What apps do you use?

Personally, I just user Shareaza at the moment. Despite a few bugs, it seems to work ok.

[Gurm]

Edonkey is obtuse and bizarre. I can't tell at any given time who has a file, what its status is, whether it's started downloading, or what.

I have a progress meter, and that's it. It's the most singularly unhelpful program under the sun.

It's about time that the high-and-mighty designers of these technically complex and elegant progams learned something from the designers of Napster and Kazaa - people like a good interface.

- Gurm

[Dilitante1]

/me thinks Gurm found himself a doityourself project

[Gurm]

Actually, I've been contemplating writing a 4th-gen P2P protocol/program. Bit Torrent has inspired me, but has SO many intrinsic shortcomings.

Anyone wanna help?

- Gurm