12-17-2005, 02:35 AM
Nothing beats *.torrents IMO.
IRC:
* You cannot always connect to the user you cant to receive or send a file to.
* Sometimes aborts out of the sky
* Net Splits
* Need to enable Auto-Accept if you go to bed, in case it aborts by itself :P - And by doing that, you enable crackers to send you viruses, weee ^^
Torrents:
* Uses checksums, to make sure you got the thing you were looking for and that it didn't get corrupted. Although, not all clients has this feature, and you might have to download it as a addon, if it it possible at all.
* Downloads from multiple users, and thus opens up a whole new network of file-sharing :D
* People cannot corrupt their files so that you download them. In your FACE, IRAA!!
Anyway, IRC works as a dream when you cannot find tracksers for the files that you want. For me, IRC is just an alternative and something I use to communicate with online friends and the likes. =)
IRC:
* You cannot always connect to the user you cant to receive or send a file to.
* Sometimes aborts out of the sky
* Net Splits
* Need to enable Auto-Accept if you go to bed, in case it aborts by itself :P - And by doing that, you enable crackers to send you viruses, weee ^^
Torrents:
* Uses checksums, to make sure you got the thing you were looking for and that it didn't get corrupted. Although, not all clients has this feature, and you might have to download it as a addon, if it it possible at all.
* Downloads from multiple users, and thus opens up a whole new network of file-sharing :D
* People cannot corrupt their files so that you download them. In your FACE, IRAA!!
Anyway, IRC works as a dream when you cannot find tracksers for the files that you want. For me, IRC is just an alternative and something I use to communicate with online friends and the likes. =)