Install DC++.
Start DC++
It should open the settings page for you, if not go file->settings and do it yourself.
Set the Nick(Nickname) and line speed (based on the speed of your network card)
Go to downloads and set your Download and unfinished download directories - if you dont, the unfinished defaults to your C: drive and your downloads WILL fail if you dont have enough free space.
Next, go to the sharing page.
Click add folder and share everything you want to share, here are a few tips:
*On a desktop, you hash about 200GB an hour on a 500GB drive. Laptops/USB drives are far slower, more modern drives (1TB+) can do about 300GB an hour. Keep that in mind - your PC may lag while hashing, so let it go overnight or something.
* Dont share your windows folders, or installed programs. No one wants to download programs that dont work. share the installers, or dont bother.
* If the drive letters change, you need to rehash again - so make sure your external drives are all plugged in before sharing files.
*Depending on what version of the program you used, the hash data is located in one of two places. If you used the installer version, the
Hash data is stored in the appdata folder. Go to start-> run and type "%appdata%" (without the quotes) and hit enter. the DC++ folder is in here, if you want to back up your hash data and move it to another PC (remember, the drive letters have to be the same for this to work)
If you used the ZIP version, the hash data is kept in the same folder as your DC++ files.
* Share the folder you're downloading to! due to segmented downloads, it speeds things up a lot!
Finally, join the DC hub. Ask at the lan what its called - it all depends who's running it. The rest is easy - double click a users name on the left to see what they have shared.
Side note: The people who have many, many TBs shared arent going to be kind to people who share 2GB of useless crap, and then whine for a slot to download. If you want to have priority, you need to share stuff yourself. Many lans actually set limits of minimum share sizes of 100GB or so, just to stop people wasting their time.
Question:
Why cant we use DC++ 0.306? i hate hashing!
Answer:
Because hashing gives you segmented downloads, less file errors and DC 0.306 crashes on machines with more than 2TB shared.
oh and btw, those "hash free" versions still hash... they do it realtime when someone asks for a file. I'm sure you dont want to suffer the lag from having files hash while you're gaming.
Question:
what is segmented downloading?
Answer:
It breaks the files up into multiple pieces, and downloads the file from multiple sources. so if 3 people have the same file shared in the latest DC++ versions, you can download that one file from three people at once, and get it in one third the time.
Download DC++ from here and make sure you hash before LAN
http://sourceforge.net/project/download ... a=72695855
