What is the difference between “Browse” and “Direct Browse”?
A “Browse” queries the server for a list of files for the user that is browsed. Whereas a “Direct Browse” only asks the server to establish a connection to the user and transfers the list of files directly peer to peer. The later is the preferred way to browse, because it does not waste server bandwidth. Only few clients like XNap and Lopster support it though. WinMX and AudioGnome do not support direct browses. back I sometimes get a message starting with “Your client issued a server based browse command in the chat panel, it recommends using XNap, but since I already use XNap, I do not understand what it means. First of all, you can safely ignore this message; it just explains that a server is restricting server based browse commands because they’re drawing up too much of his bandwidth. You can try to “direct browse” people via the entry in the users menu, but most clients do not support this efficient client-to-client browse method.
