perr-to-peer

[complich8]

nothing is better than an unrestricted access ftp of either a member of the fansub crew that did the series you're trying to download, or of a friend who's made it a point to download, screen, and appropriately name the series you're trying to get.

But those are hard to get, especially if you aren't a fansubber yourself and don't have college campus type connections (campus sharing communities tend to form with not too much effort, given a fairly large and diverse set of residents).

When I can, I stick to l33t ftp hookups. When I can't, I look for .edu xdcc's if it's for a new release or if the group whose stuff I'm getting has an archive set up for it, and then I go to torrents as my third choice. Which is still pretty high on the list.

3 is the cutoff though. I rank kazaa, gnutella clients, dc, emule, all that stuff tied for dead last. With p2p searchable networks like those, you don't know what you're going to get. Trusted ftp's are nice because you know if the file's not the right one, you can tell the owner and they'll fix it. With torrents, you have cryptography on your side, with sha values calculated on every chunk of data. With xdcc bots, they tend to reside in the same place as the group itself, so if it's not the right file you grab an op and they get the problem fixed. With p2p searchable stuff, there are a lot more malignant users and the purpose for many people being on the network tends not to be "share" but "get". Rather different than the purpose of the fansub group's xdcc bots and torrent page, which are pretty much "we're giving this, you can have it". Ya know?

[hiroshi]

lol. yeah i agree with you there.

btw, that anime server thing sounds cool, i might try it out by adding the server to my shareaza. The really annoying thing though is about not having MP3 files shared, which means i'm going to have to screw around with my share directory system on shareaza to access the network. blah.... bit of hassle but it may be worth it... =P

Yeah this FTP is very good. Not sure about the IRC channels, perhaps they are as good as Joker says after all. But to get 300KBps you would need a 3MB connection. Do you really have a 3MB connection? England sucks, we've barely got a 1MB connection

I tried using IRC myself, but i thought of it as a pain because i had a bad experience with it. I tried downloading a file, but then i lost my transfer window, so i didn't know how much i was downloading and at what speed. So i disconnected and reconnected to the server, and tried to download the file again. But the bot wouldn't let me, it kept saying i had already requested that file. Feh.... besides. The only speeds i got with the bots was a max of 30KBps myself. I'm amazed at Jokers speed, how he got 300KBps i will never know