Adam CommunityNet

Anyone on this shit?

EPIC

There's about 15TB of shit shared on the hub I'm connecting to through the West Adelaide (WESA) exchange.  Doesn't count to quota, so I'm gonna have to buy some hard drives.  Back to the old school.

Lol what percentage of that is pirated shit and how long until it gets shut down? Get it while you can!

interesting question... it's completely closed to anyone who's not on adam on the exchange though, so it's not in the ballpark of sharing on public p2p... and it would likely take word of mouth to reach someone who cared enough to want to shut it down... nfi, but rest assured i'm grabbin'

EXPLAIN PLEASE!!!

What is CommunityNet?

CommunityNet is an initiative of Adam Internet that allows AdamDirect and Naked DSL customers on the same telephone exchange to share files between each other without counting towards any of their data quotas.

continued at...

http://www.adam.com.au/communitynet/

Like the old BBS, but with 1Mb/s uplinks all round

my modem doesnt allow communitynet for some reason. bah

damn, has internode got anything like this?

No because everything else they offer is better than Adam lol.

IMO any features that Adam offer that are similar to Node are always better on Node.

This CommunityNet thing is about the only thing Adam has going for it really...

Double Data due to Off Peak bonus isn't exactly a bad thing either.

Funnily enough there is no one active on my exchange (Flinders, CBD) so I never bothered with it.

Might have to have a look again.

I can't seem to get it setup, there is no guide for my specific modem and I'm not having much luck with piecing bits of other guides together haha.

lies!  what can you do with your more expensive node account that we're missing out on?

what modem mate?  i'll tell you for sure...


yeah another mate said the same thing, but from the looks of the forums it seems like the CBD one is most active?  i think i lucked out with my exchange

I'm using a TP-Link w8920g. It should be compatible as I am able to setup a second PCV connection, I'm just assuming it's the settings I'm getting wrong. All I know is when I try to connect to the Brighton exchange it just times out.

How does this thing work anyway, like how do you browse the files that are being hosted? Just through your normal web browser?

on my exchange there's a 'Direct Connect' hub (server) running, I'd never seen it before but it's like IRC with more of a focus on P2P files.  it's just a lan essentially though so you can use whatever you want to share files, like the old hotline, or just ftp

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_Connect_(file_sharing)

if you post up a screenshot of teh config page i can maybe help... basically aside from making it 8/36 instead of 8/35 you just want to connect by ethernet instead of PPPoE, and use DHCP & 1483 bridging.  When I selected Ethernet/DHCP the '1483' came up by default... YMMV being the operative

Holy shit, I haven't used DCC since I was an elite hacksaw.

Cheers mate, will give it a go.

Hmm I don't know how much things have changed these days because I've been out of the country for nearly 2 years but there was a whole heap of awesome unmetered radio stations on Node plus Newsgroups access at full connection speeds. Uploads weren't counted towards quota either. They ran a whole heap of game servers too and had their own Steam mirror which again was unmetered so handy for downloading those massive Steam releases.

They had an unmetered file database full of Linux distros, popular free applications etc. They also had a regularly updated version of the entire downloadable wikipedia in there too clocking in at a few gig lol.

I'm sure there was some other stuff as well but I was pretty happy with all the stuff listed in the first paragraph and I'm pretty sure Adam couldn't offer anything similar. It was well worth the extra money when I could get the latest episodes of popular shows from the newsgroups in 5-10 minutes and movies in about twice that, quicker than going to the video store lol!

http://www.internode.on.net/residential/entertainment/

no mass leeching repository unfortunately...

I'd say the biggest advantage to internode is unmetered uploads.  Between tucows and filearena I'd say most of the 'popular content' stuff is there, although they do limit standard newsgroup access to 10GB/month...

http://adam.com.au/unmetered/unmetered.php

For most people though it ain't no thang and you're definitely paying more.  I don't have any real affiliation or attachment to Adam I just can't argue with their combination of being just about the best and definitely the cheapest (amongst worthy carriers that is, coughtpgcough)

This was what I meant...

i reckon everything i upload gets counted to my usage on internode

You are dreaming then. Because it really, truly does not get counted.

you're clearly in massive denial about how much you suck from the tubes

really, truly?

ROoly Trooly.

I suck over 80Gb a month. It is very easy to do.

Same. Had a quiet month in August with only 60Gb coming down.

There is a lot of porn out there.

I daresay this wouldn't work in Goolwa? What the fuck is Adam Direct? I'm on 1500k (ends up being about 150k).

Direct = ADSL2+ on an Adam exchange

You wont get it in goolwa lol

And none of it downy

Wooah! Easy now, ha ha.