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Old 09-02-2010, 05:50 PM
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How to connect to the Alizée DC++ Hub Tutorial

Alright, I call for another illustrated tutorial to simplify things and enable this pearl to errrrrrrbody.
Now grab a child and a bag of corns cuase it's time for another cozy point and learn adventure



1. Launch your best browser and pay a little visit to your good old friend Google.







2. After the search for "DC++" your top hit should be sourceforges link to the download section, click it!








3. Click the big green download button, you should be able to hit it or else spend 24 hours sobering up before attempting this.








4. Save the file somewhere you can remember it, like the desktop?









5. Start the file and follow the install steps by spam-clicking the next button as fast as you possibly can.











6. When the installation is complete you should be able to find DC++ in your start-menu, launch it off!









7. When you start the application the first time the Settings window should pop up automagically (otherwise open it, File>Settings).
Enter:
Your nick name (any)
Your E-mail adr. (any, not important)
Your description (something extremely nifty)
Your Upload speed (not important)











8. Next up is the Connection tab. This one is the trickiest.
If you are in luck you have a completely open connection to the internet without any firewalls in the hardware outside your computer (router, modem) and can use the first setting My computer is ...... This is probably not the case thou so let's move on to the next option.

The 2nd, UPnP... choice is what I use and should work with most modern routers. It opens up a connection for itself and does not need any actions at all from the user. I recommend you try this one if you have no clue whatsoever what kind of setup you've got.

If you cannot use UPnP then you must do the hard work yourself by manually opening the ports you want to use in your router. This is a bit tricky and if you find yourself in need of this solution I'm gonna have to redirect you to a website which are made for these kind of setups, namely Port Forwarding.
You will need to find your own router in the that list and read the guide on how to "forward a port", then you just type in that port in the TCP/IP
and UDP fields along with your External IP-Adress (you can get this by visiting this website).


If everything should fail and you cannot get anything to work then you must use the last and crappiest option, the Passive Mode. This will decrease your ability to find files but most importantly your ability to share files, which is the very thing this hub is about. You should atleast try the other options before resorting to this lame option.










9. In the Download section you just add 2 folders.
1st the folder in which you want all your shared and downloaded data to be located.

2nd the folder which you want "halfway downloaded" files to linger until they are completely downloaded. Keeping these two appart from each other will prevent you from sharing partial/broken versions of real files that will mess up the system.








10. Finally we need to setup your Share.
Simply press the Add Folder button and point to the same folder that you used in the 1st field in the Download tab.
Press OK to finish the setup.








11. Ok so your setup and ready to go.
Press the yellow star icon on the top to open the Favourites window.
Here you will add all the hubs you want to be able to quickly connect to.
Click on the New... button.










12.
Enter:
The hub name (any)
The hub adr. (currently girlpop.hopto.me)
You nick (preferably the same as before)
Leave the password blank for now.

Press OK and then double-click the new server in the list to enter the server.







13. You will now end up in the most epic hub there is for the time being, take a minute to collect yourself.

Type !regme followed by a desired password to call upon the gods with your desire to register on the server.
For example !regme pass123

You might have to wait awhile until a mod can fix the password to your nick, but be patient. Sooner or later a new window will pop up with the title of this helpful mods name, and he will tell you that you have been granted and maybe even chat alittle if he's not too busy.

EDIT:---
Failed to mention that you will need to have the 1 gigabyte Alizée share ready for the mod to "investigate". If you don't have it ready chances are you will recieve bolts of lightening instead of a nice chat, along with the task to fix the 1 gig before trying again.

Read bottom text of this post for a quick howto tip.
EDIT:---

After this moment you can log into the site with a password, but you need to disconnect from the server first to relogin. Close the hub window by right-clicking the "Alizée DC++...." tab (Green TV on the side of it) and selecting Close.











14. After closing the hub you should now find yourself looking at the Favourites tab again. Right-click the hub in the list and select Properties.

This should bring up the same window you edited not long ago, simply add your new password to the Password field and press OK.
Now enter the Hub again by double-clicking it et voila! You are now a registered user of the private network!












15. Once back inside the Hub again try clicking the Search icon that looks like a magnifying glass in the top of the screen.

This is where you search the other users shares for goodies, just type the search word and filter your search with the criteriums if you which.

A general rule is that the higher data amount (MB) a file takes the better quality it is. Also, if you download a file that has many Users then that file is shared to you from many different locations thus making it faster to download and more likely to be the "official" one.

So if we want to watch that dancer fall in the Adélaïde performance we make a quick search and find one file to be the most interesting.
One double-click later and we are in the progress of downloading that file.

If you find the flickering messy in the lower section of the screen you could change the view from Connections to Downloads for a better view of what is going on.










16. When the file is done downloading you can find it in the Finished Downloads tab by clicking the icon with a green folder with a V on it.


Here you can witness all your downloads and with a double-click open the file of choice.

The video will shoot off and we can now watch the video and that dancer just tumble down the stage hahahaha...











The share limit to join this hub is 1 GB of alizée material, of course no copyrighted stuff like released CDs and DVDs. If you don't have 1 gig Alizée stuff then shame on you!

No but seriously, it shouldn't be hard to accumulate. Just put togheter all your Alizée pictures and download some youtube videos or simply snatch a couple from this sites Video Section FTP.

Remember this is not a leeching spot for greedy people, you are ment to share what you have with everyone else. If you fail to do so you will be banned from the hub and fitted with a Hat-Of-Shame accordingly.

There are many other functions and tricks to know about in DC++ but francly, I have held your hand so hard throughout this tutorial already that if you don't do something yourself now you'r probably gonna have to move back to moma again

Good luck people!
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