DC++ Hubs

[Disme]

Our school has ~ a PB of stuff on their hub.

Pics or it didn't happen

[ca_aok]

You make it sound like it's impossible... back when I was in residence in my freshman year (that was when I primarily used it, since the internal 100Mbit connections make speeds awesome) I was sharing ~2-3TB of stuff alone, and I wasn't even in the top 10 shares. Add a few thousand more students and it's not too hard to fill up. I used to fill music requests from our request/release bot using What.cd as well. Now it's only really practical if I'm spending the day in the library or a computer lab. If you're connecting from off-campus you have to get your IP range whitelisted or tunnel through a computer on-campus, and speeds aren't really great.

[Disme]

Just jokin bud ... I believe you.

[zot]

A petabyte might seem like a lot on DC, but many people are going to be sharing the same files. On any P2P network, it seems that it's only ever a few people that introduce new material, that everyone else then copies from.

[Waddafocky]

A petabyte still means the userbase is large. For example, if each person in a school has a 1tb HDD, that means at least 1000 users are using the hub at any one point. That's a lot by my standards, even counting dupes.