The Durham Hub is Back…
Returning to college residence might mean the end of bittorrent, but at least we can have ultra-fast internal file sharing again…
The Durham Hub is safe, secure, fast internal file sharing on the internal ESOL Durham University Network. It allows you to share copyright-free (obviously?) files from your computer and download files other people are sharing.
To get going on the system….
- Download your DC++ Client …
- (Windows Users) Download the DC++ client program from Sourceforge
- (Mac Users) Try the Mac DC++ program also on Sourceforge
- (Linux Users) There’s details of a Linux Port of DC++ here
- Install it, follow all the default options.
- Run DC++, File -> Quick Connect, enter hub.r9paul.org as the address *
- Share some files of your own, File -> Settings -> Sharing
- Done! Double click on a username to browse their shared files or use the search tool.
We’ll aim for 24/7 availability during term time but note this might not always be possible, service updates will be posted on twitter with hashtag #durhub.
Any major problems get in touch
* this will only resolve on the internal network, you cannot connect to the hub from outside of the Durham Network.
Adam said,
September 24, 2009 @ 3:45 pm
shakespeer was a pretty solid DC client for mac os x -> http://shakespeer.bzero.se/
Sam said,
October 8, 2009 @ 6:51 pm
Is the hub working at the min? I’m getting the standard “A connection attempt failed…” message, although I haven’t connected to the hub this year yet. Oh and the twitter link isn’t working… Cheers, Sam
Dawson said,
October 18, 2009 @ 8:50 pm
Hmm seems to never be on
r9Paul said,
October 19, 2009 @ 7:05 am
I’ve been shut down by ITS, sorry folks! x