Unifi DC++ Hub



Hey fellow Unifi-ers, since Unifi is about to kick off in about 18 more exchanges.. I've finally decided to start up a Unifi DC++ hub. Originally, I was planning to revive the LYN DC++ project however it seems to have disappeared for some reason (I'm guessing inactivity). If you've already subscribed to Unifi.. please join us !

Q: What is DirectConnect (DC++)?
A: Direct connect is a peer-to-peer file-sharing protocol. Direct connect clients connect to a central hub and can download files directly from one another. Hubs feature a list of clients or users connected to them. Users can search for files and download them from other clients, as well as chat with other users. DC++ is a free and open-source, peer-to-peer file-sharing client that can be used to connect to the Direct Connect network or to the ADC protocol.

Q: Why is there a need for a Unifi DirectConnect hub?
A: As you all know, Unifi provides every user with a symmetrical connection (upload speed == download speed). While it was nearly impossible to upload files on a long term basis on Streamyx connections (30-50KB/s tops).. Unifi enables each user to upload at 5/10/20mbps speeds. As Unifi home packages also have a data download cap (which we believe will only take in account international traffic), having our own local P2P network is a great way to share files with other Malaysians while conserving international bandwidth in the process .. and possibly preventing you from hitting your daily data cap within an hour.

Q: Who can join this Unifi DC++ hub?
A: At the moment, I've only allowed connections from the Unifi home network ranges to connect to the hub to ensure that only local traffic is utilized. If you're on Unifi home, simply download a DirectConnect client (most of us use ApexDC++). The hub also has a chat channel so you may interact with other Unifi users there. If you're not a Unifi user and you attempt to connect to the hub, you will likely not be able to (connection refused error).

Q: I'm a Unifi user, how do I connect to the hub?
A: Pick up a DirectConnect client (I recommend ApexDC++ -- http://www.apexdc.net/ ). Set up your username and connect to the hub address @ hub.athena.my OR 184.82.41.12 (if hub.athena.my is not working).


Q: Do I have to setup any portforwarding?
A: Yes, you do. However if you're on the TM DIR-615 router.. simply select UPNP mode in the DC++ client options. The DIR-615 has UPNP enabled by default and this will allow the client to automatically configure the port forwarding for you.


You may also use Manual Portforwarding with the DIR-615 (for better stability) :

I'm using port 5800 here -




See you guys in the hub !

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Thanks for this guide farkinid !

Starting Guide to ApexDC++

So you just got Unifi and are worried about the cap? Rumour has it that local p2p traffic will not count toward your cap and thats why you are here.

The 1st thing anybody should do is read the 1st post in http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/1479905

Then after you have downloaded the ApexDC++ client you are now ready to share the love with your fellow Unifi users. Lets go through this quickly.

1. Start your client (duh)
2. You will then be bombarded by a tonne of information. The 1st thing you should do is don't panic
3. If you see the image below, the red circle shows the DC++ client windows. Everytime a new window opens, it will be shown here.
   
4. Right click on each tab to close them. This makes things easier. You can add other hubs later when you are more familiar
5. Now, click on Favourites like the screenshot
   
6. The favourites window will now open. If you notice, the Favourites tab is now shown at the place pointed out in the earlier screenshot
7. Untick all the hubs listed in Favourites. You may enable them later if you wish
8. Right click on any black spot in the window and select 'New'
   
9. Refer to Rivzanp's 1st post in this thread to enter the details
10. You now have configured the client to connect to our little Unifi hub (well its really Rizvanp's but I've decided I like to call it 'our')
11. But before you connect, you should set up the things you wish to share with us
12. To do that, click on File -> Settings
13. Click on 'Sharing' and put a tick on each folder you wish to share
    
14. Click 'OK' and you are done
15. To connect just right click on the newly configured hub in the Favourites area and select 'Connect'

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Security Update (August 08, 2010)

Please DISABLE DHT in your Apex DC++ client



Update :

Hub is closed until further notice. Drop me a PM if you're interested in hosting/managing a hub and I'll post your server up here/setup a DNS redirect.

This post has been edited by rizvanrp: Feb 25 2014, 03:22 PM

Nice one :-)

was about to ask a bunch more question regarding the dc++, now all here..

maybe tonite, ill have it a try... thx riz..

will join u guys on thursday....i will only get mine then

lol, well, I guess it was only a matter of time before we got to this.

See you guys later, tonight.

Good effort to promote local P2P! Now, if only I had UniFi... Q3 2010 for PJ but only a small fraction of PJ is covered. Should be a long wait for me I suppose. TM even told me that my area does not support 4mbps Streamyx.

hmm macam cannot connect like that only

You can only connect from the Unifi network at the moment.. are you on Unifi? =x

well nope.. not from unifi.. using screamyxx, unifi isnt available in tons of place

Good job dude! I shall join the force very soon!

woot!! see you in 2 weeks time =). just got mine in kepong

Looks awesome, and obviously I won't reach that 2GB/day limit hahah. Here I come!

This post has been edited by Moogle Stiltzkin: Jul 15 2017, 07:01 AM

Finally got in. Yay!

Thanks man

i hope you continue blocking streamyx TMnet users. they wont be contributing much with their low upload speeds, only leech.

this is internet discrimination
screamyx user also want to join mah

This post has been edited by Moogle Stiltzkin: Jul 15 2017, 07:01 AM

its not discrimination, it is just selection. those who cannot contribute to the hub should not be allowed in. there will be more leechers than seeders as streamyx users will be bound to limit their upload speed as their download speed is affected if they upload at a higher rate than they are allowed to.

Unifi users do not face this problem. if u want to join, you have to be useful, you must share.

This post has been edited by Moogle Stiltzkin: Jul 15 2017, 07:01 AM

Its just the nature how ADSL works. Most likely you are going to limit your upload and just leech. UniFi users would again wouldn't be facing this problem at all.

Force download limit to 512k for streamyx user (or maybe 1Mb, doesn't hurt right). Is it good idea? This will make everyone contribute to the this.

just look at the BT scene, we have too many leechers and almost no seeders. if we allow Streamyx users in the hub we will face the same problem.

This post has been edited by Moogle Stiltzkin: Jul 15 2017, 07:01 AM

This is the point , Mostly I see malaysians with Xunlei. Xunlei should be banned anyway. uTorrent as well. I'm uploading around 30-40Kilobytes/sec a right now. I guess that takes ages if its a large file

Yup i agree, only limit the hub to UNIFI user, even though i am a streamyx user
it will save us from trouble later

Any recommendations for DC client for Linux. Am on VIP20 and don't mind joining the crowd

http://code.google.com/p/eiskaltdc/

https://launchpad.net/linuxdcpp

Two good clients for linux and OSX. eiskaltdc works great with OSX !

i have both metrofon and streamyx 4mb load balanced.. am i allowed to join ?

Ok ... I am in!

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Added on July 6, 2010, 2:41 pmNow hashing my library.. looks like gonna take ages!.. Really ages

This post has been edited by mohamadfazli: Jul 6 2010, 02:41 PM

last night took me some time to set my port forward..... now sleepy... hehe... gona refilling my library too...

someone who is feeling with me.. at least u Q3..i am Q4...or 2011..

you guys will have your chance.

for the time being we will be testing the server and what not. once u get the unifi everything will be set up and all u need is to download download download

@mohamadfazli

Welcome to the hub, what distro are you on? ! Lol

@calvin

Is your metrofon 2mbps uplink?

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I'm not discriminating against non Unifi users or anything, I just feel the purpose of having a Unifi DC++ is best served by limiting it to Unifi users at the moment. As a Streamyx user, you have the ability to download from any source be it direct download (RS, MU, HF), torrents, MIRC or whatever without hitting a bandwidth limit.

The reason I started the hub is because Unifi users on the other hand do/will eventually have a bandwidth limit. Now apparently, they're saying local traffic will not be counted. So I've started this place for Unifi users to gather, share files and discuss Unifi issues while only consuming local bandwidth (within the Unifi network alone).

If I were to allow non-Unifi users in, to you.. it would just be another place to download because you have an unmetered contract with Streamyx whereas we have a 60/90/120GB monthly cap which will be measured on a daily basis. Right now, we're enjoying minimum speeds of 500KB/s (5mbps Unifi users) up to 2.0MB/s (20mbps users) on the DC++ hub per thread. Streamyx users cannot match this speed because of your asymmetric lines.. there's a huge difference when you're able to download at those rates vs 30-40KB/s ._.

In the end, TM may even choose to measure local Unifi traffic. At least if that happens, we can say 'hey! we're paying a ****load for this line and you're limiting us at some pretty ridiculous rates.. at least let us have unmetered local connectivity' or something like that. They don't really have a reason to cap local traffic nor can they throw the excuse that by sharing large files locally we can somehow slow down browsing to Youtube or other international websites.

And of course.. the network will still be fully functional in the event a shark rips TMs undersea fiber optic cables in two (which seems to happen with Streamyx every single month).

well said!!

yup.. 2mbps uplink.. used to be a 100mbps uplink before they capped local traffic

I think shd open for others Streamyx user too...
can reduce the international bandwidth.

This post has been edited by Suk: Jul 6 2010, 06:26 PM

@calvin

Wuts the metrofon IP block? :3

unable to get into the hub, am on unifi biz D:

UGPM

UGPM

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Added on July 6, 2010, 7:26 pmAdded metrofon block to accept list :3 If you're on Unifibiz I need you to PM me your IP so I know which IP block to add TQ

This post has been edited by rizvanrp: Jul 6 2010, 07:26 PM

unifon uses fixed ip?

Unifi Home uses dynamic IP but in a certain IP block.. same with Metrofon. I allowed both of these blocks to access the hub but I haven't set anything for Unifi Biz because its all scattered at the moment :3

can try to put up member list as well

id rather not have a member list. let's keep some of the users privacy.

anyway rivan, any policy against porn and underaged pornography? id like to have the hub clean but others may have other thoughts about it.

thanks riz .. got everything done now .. just waiting for it to crunch my stash

just entered the hub and stop by to say hi..

Uh no member list.. if you need to know who's inside you can just join and find out. It's also pretty hard to keep an updated member list and I'd rather not link LYN accounts to hub users.

As for prawn, I'm allowing all content except underage prawn.. anything morally wrong really.. but its not really a problem since no one is sharing prawn anyway.

This post has been edited by Moogle Stiltzkin: Jul 15 2017, 07:02 AM

When using DC++ hub yesterday my connection to websites sorta stalled for a while. Happened twice. Is it related to file hashing?

prawn is legally wrong.

But the Internet is for pr0n!

/cues the internet is for prawn mtv

udang not legal in malaysia.. but on internet its legal

sigh .. thunderstorm blew metrofon's equipment at my place .. can't connect to DC++ it's a common thing that happens every thunderstorm

This post has been edited by Moogle Stiltzkin: Jul 15 2017, 07:02 AM

I'm in...my files still a mess...will get tidy-up...now testing to download some files from riz...

Thanks Riz...it's great effort..

Getting full speed almost 600kB/s on VIP5...hope more will join

This post has been edited by yoda: Jul 8 2010, 05:57 PM

so... how does this work??

who owns the main server which connects all the clients together?? o.O

the files are all stored on client pc like the public p2p out there right ?

rizvanrp host the server. All files is stored in client PC.

My webhost is having some hosting issues at the moment, will be back up ASAP

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Added on July 9, 2010, 12:35 amHost is back up. 1 hour+ of downtime <_>

** Server host is still experiencing some datacenter issues.. will take a few hours to resolve (hopefully by morning)

This post has been edited by rizvanrp: Jul 9 2010, 03:10 AM

out of curiosity.. how did you restrict it to unifi-only??

i mean, how does the program know that a user is non-unifi and block? o.O
ip range?

Yeap, IP ranges

i've got this error message "Failed to create port mapping. Pls setup your NAT yourself. pls excuse me, i have no idea what it meant

i kena yesterday also.... this is what i did.

http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/8283/dc1a.jpg

and on my router pulak, this is wat i did.

http://img251.imageshack.us/img251/692/dc2p.jpg

Change the 192.168.101.122 to the IP Address of your machine and then can work edi

That sounds like uPNP trying to do the mapping, but failing (router does not have uPNP?). Never liked uPNP anyway. Best to set up the port forwarding yourself.

As how to do that, see portforward.com as a starting guide.

Anyone else notice it takes AGES for it to hash the files?

Sorry for the downtime guys, my webhosts datacenter had a power failure for some server racks.. the server is back up but they're running fsck tests to ensure that the RAID arrays are not corrupted in any way. Hopefully, I'll get the hub back online by this evening.

This post has been edited by Moogle Stiltzkin: Jul 15 2017, 07:02 AM

So uh, is the hub up or down now? I just go unifi this morning and I'm keen on sharing all my 1 terra of prawn

This post has been edited by Moogle Stiltzkin: Jul 15 2017, 07:02 AM

still cannot connect maaa

no one else on yet?

Okay, I switched the web host for the hub server due to the 24 hour downtime (meh provider).

The address is still hub.athena.my but it will take a while for the DNS to propagate.. if you're impatient, switch your server address to 184.82.41.12 .

Hmm... i can't seem to open a port from my Dlink router

Can streamyx user join?

Why not?
Currently, no. Only Unifi and Metrofon users can connect to the hub. But this may change later depending on how the current users feel about it :3

ah ok.. port opened... something weird... the tick just didn't want to enable.. but after a reboot its fine

Edit : I think the hub is still down.. my connection to 182.82.41.12 is timing out

This post has been edited by farkinid: Jul 9 2010, 09:50 PM

My vote is NO.

Me 2nd, they can get the files elsewhere w/out caps unless tmnut remove the cap & would take ages to transfer files from them....

This post has been edited by Moogle Stiltzkin: Jul 15 2017, 07:03 AM

You know it will take ages to download 1GB file on streamyx using Streamyx DC++Hub

Items lacking:
- 1.5 TB HDD
- Unifi 5MB package

Will join the hub soon.

This post has been edited by Moogle Stiltzkin: Jul 15 2017, 07:03 AM

So i've been using this hub for the last 24 hours and I find that its pretty damn fast. I'm averaging about 490 kbps up and down.

This, however, now makes me wonder about etiquette. Should I organise my library so that its easier for other so navigate or should I just leave it as the mess it is? Any thoughts?

@farkinid

People can use the search function Its better anyway, the files get grouped together as multisource downloads sometimes for increased speed

This post has been edited by rizvanrp: Jul 10 2010, 07:31 PM

I'm reorganizing my files for a rehash. RAID5 failed recently, a few movies corrupted.

Sorry to hear that

This post has been edited by Moogle Stiltzkin: Jul 15 2017, 07:03 AM

We can share anything right?

Yup...anything...except under age prawn...

A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond.

Wow, i dont know DC++ got such feature..
it able user to download a file from multiple source....
tat's sound great.

Yeah I just found that it can download from multiple sources. So I'm sorry to those who want to look through the files I have, its a mess in there and I'm too lazy to organize it.

sigh.. my metrofon link is still down.. couldn't connect to DC++

i'm a little noob on this stuff. What's this then?? I'm using VIP5

@air_mood

It's a p2p file sharing channel setup meant to prepared ourself for the possibly upcoming international traffic cap. It's something similar to the ancient Napster.

@all

Registered for VIP5 & is now waiting for installation. Btw, 1.5TB hdd still pricey

Really, will get on this action when I get back from the office then. is it difficult to setup or simple even for tech noobs.

Its easy to setup. Just follow the guide in the first page, and u are good to go..

What files are you sharing on DC++?

Hmmm.. I am a unifi user... and I kinda like don't know how to Share a file.. can help?

Hmm might be a good idea to put up a more detailed guide on DC++. When I first used it I got a little lost too.

Maybe I'll write something later tonight but only if you guys think it will help