Not an AllPeers Review
I’ve mentioned AllPeers a few times in the past and recently received my closed beta invite. Part of the invite was the chance to get a few friends invited as well (after all, can’t share alone!). I know for sure one friend installed, but not sure about the others. But moot point as I uninstalled it last week for a variety of reason.
Reason 1: Turns out I really don’t need a persistent or full-time file sharing setup. I just don’t do it enough! I usually get by uploading the file to my web server.
That being said, I do have an invite to the current incarnation of Zapr that I’m looking forward to trying out (previous mention). I don’t even know if I’d consider it a competitor of AllPeers — while the end result is the same, they both work quite differently.
Not to keep side-tracking, but other interesting services in this space might include Pando, dropload or even YouSendIt. I haven’t tried any of those, but all 3 look interesting.
Reason 2: I think the AllPeers firefox extension was giving me some grief. And as a bad beta-tester, I didn’t take the time to track down what the scenario truly was. I was having some odd CPU spikes and memory usage that seem to have gone away since the uninstall, so for now I’m shrugging and moving on. Maybe it was AllPeers and maybe it wasn’t.
Reason 3: Firefox only. Not that I don’t like Firefox – I do! But I also like Opera and IE7beta. Or I equally hate them all, whichever way you wish to look at it.
So apologies to the AllPeers crew, this is one product that I just won’t be beta’ing well. I’m just not in the target demographic I suspect.
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