For our February “Staff Pick” Project of the Month, we selected DC++, an open source client for Windows for the Direct Connect / Advanced Direct Connect file sharing network.
Direct Connect allows you to share files over the Internet without restrictions or limits. It is a decentralized network, made up of individual hubs that users join to share files with other members on that hub. Each hub is individually run and regulated by a fellow user of the Direct Connect network, and may have certain themes relating to the content on the hub.
DC++ is highly-ranked and widely-used with over fifty million downloads, and it’s not hard to see why given its many great features:
- No ads, spyware, or bundled software that you don’t need
- Integrated firewall and router support
- Easy-to-use interface
- Multi-hub connections and auto-connections
- Resume of downloads, with optional automatic search for alternate sources by TTH
- Search across all (or selected) connected hubs by file type, size, name or hash
- Logging options and configuration for chat, private messages, downloads, and uploads
- MAGNET link support for linking to specific content
- Segmented downloading
- NAT-Traversal support
- SSL encrypted secure hub-client communication and file transfers, and more.
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