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sThe Panmasters Guide To Setting Your Connection Up - written by Smelly_Kat & various assorted others

General help and instructions from the main twofo website can be found on this wiki on the Problems page

There is an excellent guide for 1st time users of DC++ at http://www.b.ali.btinternet.co.uk/DCPlusPlus/gettingStarted.html. The guide below gives instructions on setting up your internet connection and DC++ client to connect best to other users. Or else you can use the Duefo guide from 2 years ago, http://www.tma.dsl.pipex.com/dc/newbies.html [Under discussion, see main page discussion area]. Both give excellent helps for those new to DC++.

We also strongly advise the use of the latest version of standard DC++ as found at sourceforge (http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/dcplusplus/DCPlusPlus-0.699.exe?use_mirror=kent). Earlier versions of DC often have security issues or problems downloading and mods of DC++ are often very unstable.

Whether you are on or off campus, you will need to make sure that any firewalls you may have are set to allow connections to and from DC++. To add an exception for DC++ on the Windows Firewall, go to Control Panel, Network Connections. Next right click on the connection you use to access the internet (Local Area Connection or Wireless Network Connection) and choose properties. Go to the Advanced tab and choose settings in the Windows Firewall. The Windows Firewall menu should appear. Finally, go to the Exceptions tab and choose add program; click browse and navigate to DC++ (C:\Program Files\DC++) and choose DCPlusPlus.exe. This should have added DC++ as an exception to the firewall so it will allow connections to and from it. Other firewalls should have manuals on the internet for settings up exceptions for programs.