Question

[permetaform]

So I got an invite to Wirehog and it looks really cool, but I'd thought to throw it out into the ether for feedback.

Pro's? Con's?

I'm currently on dial-up, and also I'm leery of putting new things in my harddrive because I'm in the middle of vidding. (~40 gigs, half full, 256 ram) Thoughts?

Comments

[kanzenhanzai.livejournal.com]

I had been considering wirehog, but the complaints I've heard ended up scaring me away.
One person mentioned that "it takes up an ungodly amount of system resources, has no option to keep it from automatically running on startup, is difficult to add/remove directories from, and half the time doesn't actually work for file transfer. It was a great idea, but the execution is lacking."
Another user claimed that someone somehow broke into the computer through her wirehog connection.


Whatever you decide, I agree on the waiting until you're done with vidding (plus I don't know how efficient wirehog would be with a dial-up connection)^^

[permetaform]

thank you for the info! And yeah, I think I'll be looking at how it is with dial-up first.

[nightengale.livejournal.com]

combined comment 'cause i'm lazy

You can, actually, keep it from running at startup, through either the task manager or the startup menu (though as these are windows things, that doesn't help perma much). It automatically updates its directories as you add files to them, though I don't know about taking a full directory *out* of its listing. I assume emptying the folder would be sufficient, worst come to worse. Transfer works fine for me and everyone I've got on my friends list so far (i'm nightengale), though I have been seeing the bug that nekonexus mentioned, that of erronous online/offline status. if you refresh it, or restart it, that fixes itself rather easily.

it's far from perfect, but I find it more secure and more direct than using a dl client like kazaa (or whatever the newest one in that vein to pod off has been).

though. deeeeefinitely not something to run at the same time as photoshop or a vid program. i can run aim, msn, mozilla, itunes, and fireworks at the same time as wirehog without problems; i'm on 512 ram.

[permetaform]

ahhh cool cool, that's good to know! =)