P2P On Campus: Only DC++
For a lot of people on campus, DC++ is a big part of their lives. With 2,336,722 unique files in 19,084 GB, a dedicated main chat, and thousands of users, it’s an important part of on-campus social culture. And, at UConn, it’s only going to get bigger.
The Univerity of Connecticut is banning all p2p traffic on its campus, citing network resource problems: “The current restrictions on these programs allow them to work, but limit their ability to consume network bandwidth and restrict their network speed.” However, DCPP will remain unrestricted.
However, according to the Hartford Advocate, the DC++ hub has had problems in the past:
Unfortunately, the DC++ fun ended after the student who ran the UConn hub was Emailed by University Information Technology Services (UITS) Network Security with notification that the hub violated state and university “appropriate-use” policies. The Email requested that the student remove the server used to run the UConn DC++ hub from the campus computer network. That student, 21-year-old senior Tyler Combelic, complied.
I can’t find their DC++ hub URL / address, so let me know in the comments if you have this information. It would be interesting to see what their DC++ is like.
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4 Responses to “P2P On Campus: Only DC++”
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I go to UConn, I will not let the address of the hub go public, but it is only accessable from On-Campus IP #s. Sorry. Lets just say that we have two members who are easily over the 1TB level of share.
great joerb the hub has been shut down
its like 20TB everythings on there, but the address keeps changing since its been shut down
You totaly forgot the main one here:
Search thousands of DC++ hubs for video, games, apps.
home.deds.nl/~dcsearch/
A DC++ Search Engine wich searches 1000 DC++ hubs. Program size only 46Kb!
I use it a lot!