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TrAvELAr - Not that I recall. I seem to remember the program itself always running perfectly fine. Transfer speed, however, is a different story. Unlike BitTorrent, where you have a very large number of peers all focusing on a single file, Direct Connect (the protocol on which DC++ operates) is more of an old-school Napster/Gnutella type of model where it's normally two peers, one file, with one sending and one receiving. I think some DC clients support multi-source downloading where shared files by multiple peers with matching hashes will be downloaded in unison and written to the same result file, but I may be thinking of something else.

Anyway, the upshot is that while in the case of BT, you're limited only by your internet connection speed on a well-seeded swarm, DC is much more of a "weakest link" scenario where all involved peers have to have decent connection speeds (including upstream) to effect good transfer rates.

You can find a crapload of stuff on DC hubs though. I miss my DC days.

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Anyone ever used this file share program called DC++. Why is it so slow for me?

well it depends on the other person's speed and if it's limited and how many slots they got open.

DC++ is pretty much the internet's flea market and i still use it to this day.

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