I hope everyone on campus is reporting problems (with legitimate uses of the network) to the resnet helpdesk. I think they need to get a large number of reports before they can treat a problem as serious. Considering they have been increasing the bandwith allocated lately, you might get more if ever...

ITS conveniently ignored the fact that many of the people who used p2p programs would then share whatever they aquired with everyone else inside the resnet. I don't really see why they mentioned DC++ in that statement since it's not that great for getting things outside of a 100Mbit LAN, bittorrent ...

Suggestion for another rule: #If your download never gets past the "Connecting..." stage, either give up or PM the user - you may be unable to connect due to on/off campus issues. Don't keep retrying forever, that just wastes hub bandwidth. Edit: OK so an average of 2200 hopeless connectio...

The resnet's external connection is capped at 60Mbit

I have noticed 29 subnets in the resnet. Unless they are also increasing the total external bandwidth significantly, dividing up the 60Mbit connection equally gives roughly a 2Mbit connection per 200 users. In theory that sounds worse, if one block cannot use spare bandwith in another. But seeing as...

If you're using a new version of DC++, and download from someone using old DC++/oDC/Valknut, you may find the download restarts from the beginning if it gets interrupted. This won't happen if you disable "Advanced resume using TTH" in Settings>Advanced. It's a known bug http://dcpp.net/bug...

oDC is based on a very old version of DC++ and is not longer maintained, and does not support TTH hashing. You should really use the latest version of DC++, or try fulDC if you want something that looks pretty.

It is estimated that around the world, there is over a billion P2P software users

Everybody is doing it, that makes it OK then?
That number seems a bit high really, where did you get it?

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TCP/IP is a heavy weight protocol in that there's a lot of extra checks (forming a connection, synchronisation (i.e. out-of-order packets placed back in-order), different levels of sliding-windows (to maintain a steady flow of data), cyclic reduncacy checks, closing a connection etc etc etc) perfor...

Each hall of residence is generally on a different subnet, and so I don't expect the windows file sharing option to really work. Anyone remember the "WarwickPiazza Search" from 3 years ago...just before duefo was set up!!? I remeber using that, it was ...terrible. You used to wait a while...