What would you change about DC?

[Theinfamousone]

Since you all had such good ideas for Kazaa. I thought it only right to give DC a chance. So what would you change about DC?

Here goes mine....

1. Tabbed interface (goodness, I have atleast 20 windows open all the time). There needs to be one for chatting, one for hub connections, one for transfers, and one for search/results. Some of you might think it sounds a little Kazaay which would invite losers with their loser music/videos, but I honestly don't think it would make that much of a difference.

2. It needs to have a better download system. If for some reason I have to disconnect, I don't know which transfer I have started, what the user's name was and what hub it was in. That's kind of annoying

3. Obviously a lot more anonymity so that people won't be afraid of hosting hubs.

4. Mozearch/Glozearch should be integrated and should be a lot better (I can find more files when connected to 3 hubs that I can when I'm using both of those put together.

5. I hate the "get file list" system they have, it could be a lot better I think. It shouldn't require an upload slot.

6. You should should be pinged and it will then assign you a certain amount of upload slots automatically.

[Sockfulloflove]

-multi-source downloading
-be able to connect to all hubs, or try to atleast
-get rid of the jackasses on it

[Siskabush]

I would make it so i could connect through my router, which i cant!

[Wolfie]

That wierd. It works fine through my router, what kind to you have?

[Nothingface5384]

theres alot of things dc needs inproved on....various aspects from differ ppl...but the way i'm improving "DC" ....well the idea behind DC is by going Here. ;-)
Edited Nice post count Wolfie lol

[Shadow, Thief of the Sun]

I would like to see bitrates with mp3 files, since i'm searching for files encoded in 192kbps.

[NDGAARONDI]

Mutli source dl
Several connections to hubs
Bitrate on audio files
Quality/compression for movie files

[Ken17625]

I like it just the way it is.

[notbob]

5. I hate the "get file list" system they have, it could be a lot better I think. It shouldn't require an upload slot.

dc++ already does this (files below a MB auto download w/o a slot)

the closing connection thing if a misconfiguration on your end (usually w/ cable users)

router/firewall problems are also often due to user error/incorrect setup

most of the other stuff people want just attracts loser leeches (bandwidth limiting, multisource, multiple connections to one hub etc.)

[Ken17625]

dc++ already does this (files below a MB auto download w/o a slot)

the closing connection thing if a misconfiguration on your end (usually w/ cable users)

I've had that happen........

The DC++ thing is true, although I have been queued for a file list before. Oh well, guess some minor things can be improved although I don't like the following:

(bandwidth limiting, multisource, multiple connections to one hub etc.)

That would defeat the purpose of Direct Connect.

[Theinfamousone]

Yeah, multisourcing isn't so much a problem for me, I like it how it is, it keeps it more peer oriented rather than just source oriented.

Multipile connections to one hub? Wha the? What are you talking about? I don't know what you're talking about, but it sounds a little leechy to me. And...bandwidth limiting, I don't know, there's pros and cons, a lot of times I would like to play a game online, but not have to close DC, it would be nice if I could say "only take 20KB/s from my upload", but obviously people would abuse it, so I suppose it'll have to stay how it is.

[Bmonk]

i think DC should be build that u can ban the type of client that can download from u. like u can chose to only let ppl with DC to connect to u if u consdier ppl using BCDC++ r leechers.

also a feature like WinMX is nice, being able to decide the bandwidth priorities of the transfers.

As for the hub programs, it should have a function to filter out all the MLDonkey clients and search bots. ppl using those r only willing to leech they won't bring anything to ur hub. trust me, being a hub owner/operator i'm fu*king sicked of watching those stupid search bots eating my bandwidth away.

[Theinfamousone]

Maybe, but the search bots are infinitely helpful. It saves me hours of connecting to hubs, and disconnecting just to find a specific video that I'm looking for. I think as far as leeching goes, DC is about the best P2P alternative.

You may call me a leech, but I think only being able to connect to one hub is a huge bottleneck for downloading, and since probably 50% of the people there have upload slots open anyway, I think it's all good the way it is. There would less files being shared, and less people to share it with if everyone had DC. Right now I'm connected to about 6 hubs, and I have 6 uploads going, and 2 very slow downloads, am I a leecher? Not in my book, it doesn't matter how many people have access to my files, but can't download, as long as I am uploading atleast as much as I download, I think I am helping people.

[Bmonk]

if u r hunting for a specific file(say an ISO for example) u'd have a better chance of posting it on a trade forum rather than searching through hubs blindly. if ur gonna do that do it with Kazaa or WinMX. i once banned the entire IP chains starting with 80 cuz alot of the searchbots had it.

anyway i consider a DC hub as a small community for friends to come in and share stuff. we don't need any outside interference that may potentially slow our transfering speed down.

[notbob]

Originally posted by Bmonk
if u r hunting for a specific file(say an ISO for example) u'd have a better chance of posting it on a trade forum rather than searching through hubs blindly. if ur gonna do that do it with Kazaa or WinMX. i once banned the entire IP chains starting with 80 cuz alot of the searchbots had it.

anyway i consider a DC hub as a small community for friends to come in and share stuff. we don't need any outside interference that may potentially slow our transfering speed down.

instead of banning millions of IP's, just register the nicks [moglo]user, etc..

give them a random password, and they'll never get in

as a former hub host, the glo /mo searches use less than 1 MB of bandwidth an hour, and almost no processor time whatsoever

if you hate them (mo/glo), hate them because mediaforce uses them to find your hub, not because some user is smart enough to not want to waste their time hanging out in your hub if you don't have what they want