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Well, it used to work outside of the residence buildings through the ethernet ports available around various buildings of the school (mills and the student center mostly). About 3 years ago though, those ports were put onto the same network as the macconnect wireless routers - making the residence network completely isolated from anyone outside residence.
MacConnect is designed to give everyone on it decent internet speed and blocks/throttles all TCP/IP ports except 80 (internet). Therefore, *most (like 95%)* of the time the max speed you can download from anywhere (including torrents and megaupload) on macconnect is ~50 KB/s.
If you're off-campus, you can connect to DC++ users by forwarding a port to your computer in your router. The speeds won't be as good as in residence (since you're going over the internet), but it can usually max out whatever your off-campus connection speed is. Because there is no way to forward a port through macconnect, you cannot download off of DC++ at all while on the campus network. The admin experimented with VPN methods for it last year, but it's waaay too difficult for most people.
To be honest though, ever since Google started promoting the cloud model (everything available through streaming from the web - including TV shows and movies) DC++ has gone to shit. Most first years now don't have any content whatsoever (since most users stream everything)... or because everyone's just getting dumber and worse at computers.
In other words, you might as well just download through torrenting.
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Dillon Dixon
Alumni
Software Engineering and Embedded Systems
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