<p>Just wondering what you all prefer/have had bad experiences with...</p>
<p>I use Mac OS X, so I don't know how helpful this info is to you.</p>
<p>I use a mix of LimeWire and Acquisition (<a href="http://www.acquisitionx.com)%5B/url%5D">www.acquisitionx.com)</a>. They're both Gnutella clients, but occasionally turn up different results (LimeWire tends to give better results, but has a horrendous GUI).</p>
<p>I also use BitTorrent for larger downloads. The campus network gives insanely fast BT download speeds.</p>
<p>If you're planning on doing a lot of music downloading, watch your bandwidth limit. You're allowed 2GB/week over the wired network and 800MB/week over wireless. It's pretty easy to go over this if you do a lot of downloading.</p>
<p>ThinkDifferent I have two questions.</p>
<p>I checked the computing policies and they sounded really negative about P2P. I know there are legal issues involved but sometimes you just need it. Do they block any certain ports and stuff or do they just ask you to play it nicely?</p>
<p>Also the limits you talk about are quite.. limiting and low. I checked the computing guidelines and it said something like 2gb a day. Which one is the right one?</p>
<p>even i remember seeing something like 10gb for 5 days....which one is correct?</p>
<p>it is not very hard to find either.</p>
<p>here are what i have found</p>
<p>No individual service or system running on the wired network should use more than 2 gigabytes (2GBs) of bandwidth per day, regardless of whether it is inbound or outbound over the commodity network link.</p>
<p>Computing Services states that no individual service or system running on the wireless network should use more than a total of 750 megabytes (750MB) of bandwidth per day, regardless of whether it is inbound or outbound.</p>
<p>yeah, it says per day, not per week.</p>
<p>yeah i was reading the same thing right now too....i think it's pretty much sufficient...since its 2Gb per day inbound OR outbound...</p>
<p>OK, yeah, replace "week" in what I said with "day".</p>
<p>They're sort of obligated to discourage P2P use because it's overwhelmingly used for illegal purposes, but they don't put technical restrictions (like port blocking) on it. However, if you're caught by the RIAA or whatever (somehow), then CMU will help them to figure out who you are, and won't defend your actions. Some students two years ago got busted because they used i2hub (which is shut down now), so the possibility of getting in legal trouble is there. The risk to casual downloaders isn't huge, though.</p>
<p>haha they were caught using internet2? at last there is some sort of novelty in that.</p>
<p>i use torrents most of the times....so if they don't have a lot of problems with that, i am happy...</p>
<p>BT is what's most likely to put you over your bandwidth limit, because you have to upload as well as download. I've never gone over my limit, but I'm careful with it.</p>
<p>i think that I'll use OurTunes, seems easier, internal and all</p>
<p>OurTunes usually turns up lots of results, since there's a lot of people here with iTunes sharing on. I find it gives the best results when you're on the wireless network in a dorm.</p>