WHITE DEVIL said:
Aye...I'm looking for a good file sharing program for programs and utlities, not MP3s. If you know of one that does both well, great. But my main concern is downloading programs, games, utilities, old games, OSes/OS packages, etc.
mIRC is the only program you will need (unless you are looking for single music files). This same question was posed June of last year, and this is a section of the somewhat lengthy answer I gave in response:
Now you need to find the files you want to download on IRC. Most of the popular channels you know of offer an immense amount of files, the problem is, it's so popular that everyone else is going there looking for the same thing as you. So what you need to do is find a place where there arn't 3,000 people in the channel waiting on the same file. Go to this link and bookmark it, because it will be the best thing to ever happen to you as far as downloading on IRC.
http://www.packetnews.com/
This is a website called PacketNEWS. There are thousands of bots and XDCC servers on IRC offering files at extremely high speeds, this is a search engine that has a big number of them in its database. You type in the application, game, album you are looking for, it will search the lists of every bot in its database, provide you with where the bot its (network & channel), how fast the bot is, it's online status, and more importantly, a
somewhat accurate description of its send/queue list. Alot of the stuff I download on IRC is on some strange network in some channel I never heard of, but as long as im downloading it at [300k] I could care less. If you have any more questions regarding IRC or anything computer related, hit me up here and ill do what I can..
Here is the link to that thread:
http://www.siccness.net/vb/showthread.php?t=65498&highlight=packetnews
WHITE DEVIL if you don't understand how to use IRC I am willing to show you. Once you understand how send/queue/speed on XDCC bots work, you will be downloading pretty much anything you desire. I also posted a link to speed up your mIRC transfer rate (mIRC tends to be slower then what is possible). If you don't understand, and you don't want to, then just download and install mIRC, go to that website and type in what you're looking for, click the packet number (should say #1, #2, #3 and so forth), it will load up mIRC, connect to the specified network, and join the channel where the bot is. Simply hit Ctrl + V and cross your fingers.
I can show you guys some more shit if you want, just let me know.