DC++ hub?

[Jesse]

I'm not sure if this topic has ever been brought up, but, what would you guys say to a Direct Connect hub? The hub wouldn't be that big, since there aren't many active members, but, hey, why not?

Remember the days when just about every Deks/TTT member had their own FTP? Everybody swapping the same Playstation and DreamCast rips.

[Mr Biglesworth]

I've never heard of it, what's entailed?

[Jesse]

Direct Connect is a type of p2p app, where users join/create different hubs and share their files.

We could have a TTT hub, and whoever wants to can join and share their files.

[johnny]

jep tried to start something like this up a while ago (with grouper (http://www.grouper.com/)), and it was a failure. i think it was only jep, neil, sharkz, wonko, and i who downloaded the program and joined the group, and even then, i hardly ever went online, and i don't remember ever seeing wonko online. very little file sharing went on, i think :(

[raublekick]

i'd be down. i don't have much to share but i'd love to leech :D

[Mr Biglesworth]

I've got quite a bit to share but while grouper was going i was at Rezidence with their rediculous firewalls so that people couldn't download off me at anything faster than 1kb/s. I should have a better upload speed now and i've got tons of music and movies to share. I'm in. Insofar as it is legal, *ahem*.

[sharkz]

i'd be all about it.

note: DC is alot better that grouper. especially because you're actually downloading files not just streaming them.

[Jesse]

Yea, Grouper blows.

Who wants to run the DC++ hub? I'd offer to run it, but my folks make me turn my computer so it doesn't run up the bills. You don't need a super fast connection to run the hub or anything, just a reliable connection.

http://www.neo-modus.com/

[raublekick]

is there a way to switch up who runs it? i got a nice upstream but i'd rather not have to dedicate my computer to keeping something up.

[Jesse]

I suppose 2 or 3 people could rotate if they wanted. Only thing is we'd need to keep the IP to the hub updated as it was being hosted by somebody else.

[heX]

im in.

[GT2000]

I'm not, but, #zero-signal on efnet, Only have about 40-50 gigs of stuff shared though.

*edit*
But hell, I'll host the hub on my server, it's always up..

[GT2000]

Um..that was easy.

Hub is thetesttube.kicks-ass.net port 1090
Right now if you don't have 1KB of share stuff, it won't let you connect, and I don't see how to change it.

So share a fucking text file or something.

[sharkz]

thanks so much

yesterday i was on another hub and going "god, doesn't someone at TTT already have a server that's up they could put the hub on?"

thanks again, don. i'm on now. i'm only sharing my beck stuff right now but i'll soon have the rest of my collection shared.

btw, quick link for anyone that has it enabled:
dchub://thetesttube.kicks-ass.net:1090

[raublekick]

i'll check it out tonight or tomorrow, thanks donnie

[Jesse]

I can't seem to connect.

[GT2000]

Yeah, just got home from my mri, looks like it knocked me and sharkz off it. Gimme a few.

[GT2000]

Done.

[thecreeper]

i keep forgetting about this. i'll have to look in on it later.

[sharkz]

i've been on it every day for a week

c'mon, guys!

[johnny]

it was jesse's stupid idea, at least he should be online too

[GT2000]

Yeah...I suppose I could idle on it too..

[Mr Biglesworth]

i'm in

Thanks for the NIN accoustic album, donnie

[GT2000]

NP...I'll probably have more shared once I get my server reorganized.. but that's like cleaning my room and shit, always gets put off.

[Marshall]

Im all up in there now

I have odd taste in music, so ... whatever. :P

[heX]

this is no fun by myself

[raublekick]

ok i'm gonna try it today, i swear

[raublekick]

jesus it's gonna be a while for it to index my music folder... hopefully i'll be able to connect

[raublekick]

ok i'm in but i guess no one else is

[GT2000]

Cool jess, gonna add you to my xfire list...back on topic..

I was unable to download anything off of you the other day (jess), go to browse and it wasn't even able to retrieve your list. Same thing is happening with raub now, looking though neils files just fine though.

[raublekick]

yeah my router is probably fucking you over, i'll try to fix it, but i wasn't able to last time i tried

[GT2000]

Hmm, just place the ip of your computer into the DMZ, and it should work fine, you may have to reboot the router for it to take effect, not always though.

[raublekick]

see that's the problem, i can't get into my router because i didn't think i needed to follow verizon's instructions or use their installation CD. the CD activates your accoutn and sets up an account for the modem/router. i of course just hooked up all the cables and got online. so it works, but i can't get into the router to do DMZ and all that stuff. i tried running the cd later and it didn't work.

[GT2000]

What kind of router do you have?

[raublekick]

it's a Westell Versalink DSL modem/router/wireless router combo. Verizon sent it to me after lightning hit out house and blew our old one.

[GT2000]

Ooo..yeah, one of those combo jobs, yeah, I'd say just do the installation by the books like ya said.

[raublekick]

yeah i'm thinking i might have to reset the modem (the little reset button thingy) before i do so. hopefully i won't fuck it up and prevent myself from going online.

[GT2000]

Well..resetting the router will probably reset all the pppoe or whatever settings in the router...

[raublekick]

yeah but i didn't do that last time and it didn't work. i think it's because the cd wants to verify or activate the account or something and it's like "omg alreddy konnected no need to proceed" and then it just stalls out for a little until i click the x

[GT2000]

Well...go through it by the book and if you still have issues call up those fags at verizon...ugh, that word verizon makes me shiver.

[Jesse]

Yea, my computer wasn't the DMZ host. I thought it was, but somehow my computer was assigned a different IP.

FIXED 'ER THOUGH.

[GT2000]

GIT 'R DUN!

Cool, I'll check out what ya have later.

[Mr Biglesworth]

hey why am I temporarily banned? I bring you love!

[GT2000]

Temp ban? That happened to sharkz last week, not sure what caused it, all I had to do was stop and restart the server and it was fine, try now.

[GT2000]

I added the server to a hublist...here..

http://www.thetesttube.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=16

Already had a few random/foreigners pop in, couple of them are staying, ya'll should start idling in there more, always see neil and sharkz boy though.

(my files are in disarray because of the crash lastnight, will take a while to sort that back out...)

[GT2000]

Will be down for a bit, got the raid controller and 2nd drive in, apparently it takes a long ass time to get the raid array to duplicate drive A onto drive B. After that's done I have to solve the blue screen I'm getting on boot, "inaccessible boot device", probably has to do with needing the win2k drivers installed for the raid card, booted the first time through and then I shut it down while it was "setting up network connections", it probably had enough time to detect the card and now it's being a cunt about it.

*edit*
fuck it, I'll set it up on my main machine in the mean time.

[GT2000]

Ok, server raid 1 is good to go, also using a new hub, this one runs smoother, using YNhub now, might look into a bot or two later on for random crap, I think more people should check it out if you haven't, TTT's chat room, booya.

[GT2000]

Weird..there's 220 people sharing 1.26TB, and, they're talking, don't understand why people find an unused hub and randomly populate it..

[johnny]

tell them all to register at the forum and talk here

[testtubebaby]

how do i use this program and where do i get it? please, someone explain all of this nonsense to me...

[GT2000]

http://dcplusplus.sourceforge.net

the rest should be self explanatory, just set it to auto-connect to thetesttube.kicks-ass.net:1090 in the preferences.

[Mr Biglesworth]

dude, when did we get 197 members?

and a censor?

THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN I DISAPEAR FOR 2 WEEKS!

[GT2000]

I'm considering banning any kind of "clan" tag, because of this...


<[OFF]Deus> is their any difference between thetesttube.kicks-ass.net and acadia.gotdns.net
<[DEN]Sndtech-Laptop> yes and you should be connecting to all three hubs, thetesttube.kicks-ass.net acadiadc.getmyip.com acadiadc.gotdns.com
<[DEN]Sndtech-Laptop> stargate atlantis season 2 ep 9 up
<[DEN]Sndtech-Laptop> ep8 sorry
<sarah> why do you need to be connected to all three?
<sarah> ... and acadia.gotdns.net isn't working
<Josh> ..
<[DEN]Sndtech-Laptop> yeah its not up right now they are fixing the network card on it, because if one goes down then the acadia hubs dont really suffer, its called redundancy and its great to have if the hub OP gets caught
<sarah> ah ok, thanks!


Apparently they just find floating hubs to infest until the hub gets shut down?

Someone a little more familiar with the faget scene of hubs confirm or concur this?

[thecreeper]

that's fucking lame. it's like a bunch of assholes who won't talk to us came into our house and started watching stargate.

i wouldn't mind it so much if they would post or something, but come on. if it gets to be a problem, get rid of them.

[johnny]

i just checked out this dc++ shit, and i have instant dislike of these people!

[testtubebaby]

ok, i got connected... then i tried to check out donnies files, and now it auto disconnects me everytime i try to rejoin

[GT2000]

Don't worry, I'm about to ban all clan tags now, heh.

*done

[GT2000]

Seriously though, the script I'm using doesn't ban properly I guess..heh.

[GT2000]

<GT2000> god, persistent retarded mother fuckers aren't they
<GT2000> anyone that isn't a queer bot, explain why this hub is getting over run by OC loving fagets
<DENSndtech-Laptop> ok who changed the nick rules, basically kicking all of acadia?
<DENSndtech-Laptop> this hub is stupid, cause no on e can go on it...most have no idea how to change their nick, therefore the test tube is broken to them, and useless to me
<DENSndtech-Laptop> you guys are stupid
<Money> .avi
<GT2000> useless to you? i don't want it useful to you ;p

[GT2000]

Lmao, they keep going and going, but I'll have fun messin' with them until I kill the server or make it private, whatever.

*edit*
And all these people are from some canadian school, acadia.

[johnny]

it's a university on the east coast. (nova scotia)

[GT2000]

I let them back in, I actually have fun messin' with them..

[thecreeper]

just tell them that thetesttube is devoted to chicks fucking horses, and anyone who doesnt choose to share videos will be promptly booted.

[GT2000]

I'm actually trying to talk to someone in there, I think they've just got their main hub and are using this one as one to redirect to...I'm just gonna keep doing little things to annoy them until they leave, more fun that way.

Probably start by passwording it or requiring accounts, that is if anyone still has any interest in actually using it, otherwise i'll just shut it down completely.

[GT2000]

Btw, someone else hop on there and tell me if you have problems connecting to everyone on there, might just be my dc app, but I'm not behind a firewall atm and still don't get any connections though people occasionally download from me on there...

[Jesse]

I'd use the hub now, but my connection at school is horrible.

[thecreeper]

I'd use the hub now, but my connection at school is horrible.
you too? my connection is awful, some days i think 56k would be faster.

[GT2000]

Hub is gone now anyways.

[Mr Biglesworth]

was wondering about that...

[GT2000]

Yeah, I actually killed my server altogether...dropped one of the 2 250gbs in my main workstation, and the other 250gb in a usb external case, just gonna do the occasional backup and then leave the external turned off the rest of the time, make the drive last longer, keep the backup a little safer than the constant running of the raid 1...

[Jesse]

you too? my connection is awful, some days i think 56k would be faster.

Good. So I'm not alone.
I was told by the tech club at my school that my campus has 6 T1 lines, but I guess they are setup completely incorrect. Which makes me smile.

[thecreeper]

its gotten better, but jesus, its still fucking terrible. 200k/s is the absolute fastest my line at school will go.

[GT2000]

Wow, your techs are morons. That, and, even with 6 T1's (that ain't shit), it wouldn't take much for a few people hogging bandwidth to kill it for everyone else, not saying that's what's happening, but, kinda...pretty likely, especially in a college, heh...

And also, back on the DC++ topic..yeah, never really cared for it anyways, and since I'm not running my server anymore to cut back on power usage, not doable.

Thought about setting up an irc channel like was requested a while ago, and like I used to do several years ago, but no one went to and I stopped keeping it open...I'll just hold the channel again, #thetesttube on irc.efnet.net, be there..or not, I don't give a shit either way...

[thecreeper]

i think the #thetesttube channel might actually be a good idea for future projects, dude. go for it.