On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 02:19:12 -0400 Haywiremac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ah, the way I understood it was that with a new version, MLDonkey would > be getting aroung that, sharing amongst all networks. I'll read it > again. Sharing on most networks, not all. On DC, these clients have a static "share" of exactly 12MB, which is actually not even a share, but a so-called value which is hard-coded. So it comes down to the fact that on hubs, all these *donkey users are simple just leaching off others, which not giving anything back. These clients also result in a shitload of traffic on hubs, with all their searches and so on. I believe the DC plugin will be called off pretty soon, due to the fact that most hubs permanently ban Donkey users (in any form) due to their useless-workings on a 2-way scale. If you take, you must give, but these clients cannot give, so are not welcome. > What do you find is the biggest advantage with DC? I only just migrated > from gtk-gnutella to mldonkey...I have a feeling... :-)) The biggest advantage.. hmm, this is a good one. I'm not sure. I use DCGui-qt (http://dc.ketelhot.de/), and am actively busy with it's development and creation of Mandrake RPM's on my site. This client supports features beyond the well-knows DC++ (windows) but has not really as of yet been well accepted on all hubs, mainly due to the fact that these kiddie-scripters who write these bots to monitor clients have the theory of "if it's not DC++, it's bad". Direct Connect is a great fast system, but is aimed at users with fixed connections (adsl and higher). It's a fast network due to the fact that, unlike kazaa, all searches are local (the hub/s you are on), and not all on one central server, and clients like DCGui-qt can add multiple sources for one file. Now for my honest feelings of Direct Connect: Superior for large files (iso's, films and so on), but sometimes a PITA for let's say an mp3 album. So, it all depends on what you like, and what you use. Direct Connect is a chat program too, kinda like IRC on every hub you are connected to. I like it, and will be using it for a long time, as everything I need is on it, just it takes sometimes a full (all) hub-searches (I have around 4000 hubs in my list) to find it, hence the reason for a good connection ;-) Greetings Ralph -- http://axljab.homelinux.org:8080/ "...the software said Win95 or better, so I installed Linux"
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