DC++

Very slow searching

Asked by VoiD

Hi all ...

I am normally connected to about 20-30 hubs and have never had an issue with this, but whenever I perform a search these days, the results are a lot fewer than they should be (searching common words), and the search results used to fill the page up at a blistering rate, but now they come in one line at a time and a full result listing can take anything up to 20 minutes instead of seconds as it used to take.

I am using Windows 8 on a x64 based system, a lot of RAM etc, the PC spec isn't the issue here. I am using a Virgin (UK) modem router and have tried using the DC++ auto settings, but they don't seem to work, I have got DC++ to map the ports and I manually put them into the router config page. So I can search (just) and I can download/upload, but in general it's extremely slow to return search results which are very lacking in number as well :(

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance

^V

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eMTee (realprogger) said : 		#1

After reading http://dcplusplus.sourceforge.net/webhelp/window_search.html about how searches work on DC you'll see that it can't be "slow". You just don't receive all the search results sent to you for some reason.
If results discarded when they come in large amount then it's probably some firewall issue or your provider uses traffic shaping to limit your p2p usage (by the name, your provider has a history to do that in the past).

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VoiD (stef-) said : 		#2

Snag is, I've been using DC++ for years, likewise I've been on NTL/Virgin for years and never had a problem before, this has only started recently, and I wouldn't of thought it was a Windows 8 issue? Admittedly, of the few search results I do get, I don't seem to be able to download from many, they all seem to timeout very often.

I (think) I have set up my port forwarding correctly, judging that on the fact that I can (albeit badly) search and on rare occasions download :( I hand picked the 3 ports in the DC++ settings as 20001, 20003 and 20005. I've allowed a range of 20001-20005 on the port forwarding on the router setup page, I'm assuming that's all I need do?

If this is indeed Virgin hammering the result return speed, is there no way around it? Am I actually stuffed from using DC++ because of my ISP?

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eMTee (realprogger) said : 		#3

Yeah "I don't seem to be able to download from many" suspects that as well. If your ports are incorrectly forwarded then you won't get any search results and you won't have a single succesful download.

You can try connecting to ADC hubs only and check if things working or not. Providers' packet shaping usually don't detect ADC (yet) so if it works on ADC hubs it'd give you the answer.

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