DC++

It's too easy to lie about this. My mod does have a U and D in the ++ tag, so hub software could filter against it, but it's trivial to remove, and nothing else gives outward evidence that the client is throttling. And that means that some of the more strict hub admins might just think it's a bette...

But there are a select few users (I know of about 250+) who use DC++ on a University LAN, which means we are all connected at 100Mbit Full Duplex, a nice rate of 10Mb/s! What university do you go to? And how is 100FDX equal to 10Mb/s? :) So my problem is not so much about bandwidth, but a much more...

If you have a old p120-ish box + 2 nics lying around, you can install linux + QoS. Linux can act as a bridge and also shape the traffic. I am planning to deploy one box just like this at our house's very saturated 10mbps connection. Bridging means the box will work like a switch (it is in fact a 2-...