Need New Hub Any Volunteers?

[powerstick]

I don't know much about bcdc++. All I know is when I used it for a few days, I got kicked out of every hub that I was in. I don't know what it does or ne thing or why people don't like it. I was at a friends houe when I was using it. He had it not acually me. the only thing is that a 384 divided by 8 only gives you 48KB/sec uploads. I believe that if people want something, they will eather pay for it or get a faster dl/upload speed. I am in a town of 416 people and they don't even offer dsl. I had to look for several years to find a good provider. Everyone I talked to said that only dial up is offered where you are. ya know what? I found a high speed provider. Anything is possible if you just try. (I always clog my isp's lines so they upgraded their network.) Anyways, if you want you can host the hub. Like I said, I don't know anything about bcdc++ other than most hubs are against it. If you think you could host the hub with 384kbs up, that is good. You didn't mean 384 KB/s did you?

[brainchasm]

Hosting a hub doesn't require much as far as bandwidth until you get into the multiple hundreds of users. The biggest impact comes from people that don't go Active (i.e. Passive). Everytime a Passive user does a search, all the results from all the other users have to filter through the hub first...even with just plain text, that adds up REALLY fast. Active users get their results directly from the users that they searched (which is specified in the DirectConnect protocol).

BCDC++ is a mod of DC++ that is best known for adding bandwidth throttling. Many hub owners won't allow it because they think leechers will use BCDC++, throttle their uploads to something like 1KB/s, and download like damned leeches. The thing is, BCDC++ has a bottom "cap" to limiting upload speed. If you throttle it below 6KB/s, your download speed is also silently throttled. B)

So a leecher that throttled to 1KB/s will have shitty download speeds as well. It's something of a keep-you-honest measure. The whole thing is opensource, so you could compile your own throttle standards...but then not many people are up to that challenge.

The funny thing is, while BCDC++ is a bandwidth-throttling client, you can put NetLimiter on your machine and regular DC++, and get the same (and even more leechy) results. And no one can kick you for having a hacked client.
So the whole hub owners against BCDC++ thing is academic at best...if someone wants to leech, they will find a way unless you watch what they do, not how they do it.


BC