If you're in the Learning Grid, you should be able to connect directly to hub.twofo.co.uk:4144, but of course you'll only be able to transfer files with non resnet people.

I didn't notice if it went down overnight, but it's been up since 7:25 am this morning.

DC++ version 0.698 is now the current stable version. This version is not compatible with oDC, very old DC++ versions, microdc or valknut 0.3.7. Any Linux user who wishes to continue using valknut will need to use my modified version, available here http://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/~csucda/valknut.html ...

Firstly, make sure you read the rules for what you can and can't do on the resnet
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/its/ ... net/rules/

If you still want to use DC++ after reading them, look here
http://www.twofo.co.uk/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

A cable company? I thought there was only the one, namely NTL, now that they've merged with Telewest. But it may be a good option considering our house is fairly near the edge of the town, I don't think we would get a particularly good ADSL connection. Although if you go with cable, you're then stuc...

It's true that the disk quotas on your ITS account is pretty small, however you can use a USB pendrive or find a writable temp directory on the local hard disk. Some of the machines have CD writers, so you can burn your ISOs there. You're probably out of luck if you need a DVD iso, unless you happen...

But everyone does have access to the machines in the campus work rooms, although that does involve using Windows.

Well thanks for your opinions, perhaps I am best off sticking with "you get what you pay for", and Tiscali does seem suspicously cheap. And I'll be using it when I'm at home, also my brother still lives at home. Even so, I think a quota of 30GB per month is a reasonable amount to stick to,...

I use a considerable amount of bandwidth keeping my "bleeding edge" linux install up to date.

But as far as downloading ISOs goes, why would I download them at 100KB/s when I could go into the department and download them at 3MB/s?

Any server application would at this point be a risky business

DC++ in active mode acts as a server...

So, my parents are finally getting broadband

Does anyone have any experience with tiscali as an ISP?
(They seem perfectly resonable from looking at their website.)

Also, can anyone recommend any specific router brands which are good, or which should be avoided?

Make sure you're connecting to hub.twofo.co.uk:4146.

You probably need to recompile dclib after applying the patch here:
http://dcgui.berlios.de/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3390

If you can't recompile dclib, you'll need to setup stunnel instead.

Here's a simple patch for Open DC Hub 0.7.14 which should allow people to connect with any value in the "Connection speed" setting diff -Naur opendchub-0.7.14.orig/src/commands.c opendchub-0.7.14/src/commands.c --- opendchub-0.7.14.orig/src/commands.c 2006-01-31 14:45:28.000000000 +0000 ++...

Or see this thread
viewtopic.php?t=121

Forget Windows, forget Linux, clearly you all need to see LMOS at least once.
http://sam.zoy.org/lmos/
Enjoy!