eDonkey - 1.1

First I couldn't even get it to connect with anything. So I made sure I allowed sharing (System Preferences - Sharing, etc.) -- which may have been overkill since I never had to play with that option in Acquisition or LimeWire... .

Then, after playing with the router (a D-Link DI-604) and opening certain ports, I at least got the search function to work - but wasn't able to really download properly or to let others upload.

I finally figuered out that my router has a different IP Address than my public IP Address that all those whats-you-IP web sites were telling me (the router address is found by opening the System Preferences - Internet & Network - Network - and it's listed either in the Built-in Ethernet description or if you double-click it to get the full information).

I went back to the router's web-based configuration page and made sure the firewall ports were open to *both* IP Addresses (one step for the router's IP and another step for the Public IP). Even though I now have a lot of eDonkey open ports, at least this thing works properly now.

Things I like:

The search is extensive and it keeps searching for the same file without prompting from you.

Things I'm not so happy about:

It takes a heck of a long time for most files to download (i.e. under 10 kbs) and I can't preview the files to check if I already have the file under another name. Oh, and the program got completely hung up when I tried to share my large folder of mp3s so I'm left with sharing a much smaller folder I had to create specifically for eDonkey.

For hard-to-find files, this has been the best P2P I've had. For more common files, I think I'll stick with LimeWire or Acquisition.

Hope that helps somebody.

I made the ultimate test:
I've used edonkey 2000 and mlmac 0.75 parallel for 4 months.
I downloaded exactly the same 15 files (same edonkey-hash) with both applications, also same online time, same start time and so on.
The results:
edonkey is more reliable, there are less bugs. It has actually never performed unexpected quits. But: It finished only 3 (!!!) of the files!!!
In the same time mlmac finished 14 files !!!
So I decided to scratch edonkey from my hard disk.
My only sorrow: mlmac has many minor bugs (Sometimes the preview doesn't work, sometimes it does not connect to all networks and so on).
I'm really looking forward to the next version of mlmac!!!

i installed the new version 1.1 and since then it crashes every hour - cannot really use the software! this is even under windows2000! previous versions run stable.

This client is the only one that I've gotten to work. Michel Moreau's mldonkey binaries used to work decently and Xdonkey was always fun to play with, but eDonkey 1.0 is the only donkey client that's ever worked for me.

I've not experienced any crashes or automatic sharing (except for the "incoming" folder), check it out. :)

Dear Cowicide,

Actually, as far as I can see, Edonkey does not share your Desktop folder, but its own Download folder which might be located on your desktop automatically. that is why you can not change it.
one has to undestand this software, then it is very useful.
first, set the network options on "connect to edonkey network", this will get the most results. then leave the the network ports at 45 or limit them to 20-30, but do not go lower than 10, for it will not work properly ...
the only problem i see is a quite a lot of network traffic (no problem with unlimited flatrate) and a very high cpu usage (this IS a problem). but the results are good and i would recommend it despite of the few stars... :-)