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connection issues

Asked by orwell

To begin, thank you in advance for your time and help. I have tried my best to solve this problem myself the last few days but I feel at this point that there are just too many different possibilities and I am just not knowledgeable enough to narrow down the problem.

My connection is to two different local area connections (8 and 9 it says) with "Local and Internet access." They are "public networks." Media sharing is off and public folder sharing are off but I don't believe this matters.

My line speed (upload) is 2 MiBits/s. 4 maximum simultaneous downloads. 3 upload slots. 15gb of shared files. The 15gb changes....dont ask me why because I do not know, I just know I hash the files and it says 21GB then I can restart and comeback and it will sometimes say 2.26 GB instead. I have joined hubs with no mins regardless and still have no luck.

I am only talking about the internet connection in my room at this point and not the one downstairs in the coffee shop which I will refer to in a second. I have tried using firewall with UPnP with no success. I have tried Direct Connection with no success. I have also tried firewall with manual port forwarding to the best of my ability and I believe the setup were correct but I will not rule out a mistake here as a possibility. Firewall passive works downstairs at the coffee shop connection. It does not work in my room. Firewall passive: I am able to connection to certain networks (approx 7) but I cannot find out what the common denominator is that allows me to connect to these and not others. I am able to search and get results in passive. When I click on things to download however it says connecting....connection timeout over and over again.

I have moved the computer downstairs and used the wireless internet in a coffee shop. I was successfully able to connect to any hub, search for files and download files in passive mode. These did not show up on my computer but I believe I have solved this issue by moving the download and partially downloaded folders outside of the my program directory and onto the desktop. So I no longer feel this is an issue. However, I cannot really use this for DC++ given the long times for some downloads and the fact that I cannot spend my life in a coffee shop every time I want to hear some music from back home (I am in Beijing, China at the moment).

I have searched for each of these issues separately and done what has been asked to fix them. But at this point there is either something I am missing or the issues are connected in some way that I can not figure out. I apologize if you have to give me a "no shit" your an idiot answer but I have done the best I can before turning to the forums. Thanks again.

Vista Firewall is disabled
McAfee Firewall is disabled
Location: Beijing, China
Windows Vista
DC++ 0.7091

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Pirre (pierreparys) said : 		#1

unless you have control off the router of your connection , and in your case i am sure you dont in both cases nowing Bejing lol, you will need to use passive connection behind a firewall :)

greetings yellow P2P brother :)

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Twilight2013 (twilight2013) said : 		#2

Since you are in Beijing, China the internet connection ISP must be run by the government.

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orwell (john-mike-king) said : 		#3

Ah yeah I figured as much ; ;. But does anyone know why the passive doesnt even work in my room but it does downstairs? Shouldn't passive work anyway without me having to control the router of my connection? I dont even have a firewall on, does that mean I should enable them and then use passive?

Thank you for the help my non-yellow P2P brothers lol ^^
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eMTee (realprogger) said : 		#4

As you figured out you have multiple problems.

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>The 15gb changes....dont ask me why because I do not know, I just know I hash the files and it says 21GB then I can restart and comeback and it will sometimes say 2.26 GB instead. I have joined hubs with no mins regardless and still have no luck.
>download files in passive mode. These did not show up on my computer but I believe I have solved this issue by moving the download and partially downloaded folders outside of the my program directory and onto the desktop.
 Check out this faq for this problem : https://answers.launchpad.net/dcplusplus/+faq/92 , however, if you upgrade to the latest DC++ version, these problems should go away (more in the last two posts on the dc++ blog : http://dcpp.wordpress.com).

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Connection issues. As you said you tried all connection modes without knowing more about their usage critera, I recommend to read (at least) the Get Started document in DC++ help. You can reach it from the Help menu.

About passive mode : yes it should work either if the firewall enabled or disabled (you should enable DC++ in the firewall as an exception of course). As it works with one connection then it should with other if you access both of these connections using the same LAN interface in your computer. You haven't told what kind of connection do you use in your room. If it uses another interface than your wireless adapter (eg. a normal LAN card with a cable) then you may need to enable DC++ in your firewall for that special adapter, too.

Check these (read the docs!!) and go back if no success.

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junkzilla (junkzilla-bugmenot) said : 		#5

You totaly forgot the main one here:

Search thousands of DC++ hubs for files.

http://home.deds.nl/~dcsearch/

A DC++ Search Engine wich searches 1000 DC++ hubs. 100% Assembly Language program, size only 46Kb!

I use it a lot!

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