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Originally posted by sothis for my anime hub in direct connect, i made a forum and a picture site. in the forum, under "Faq/tutorials", theres several tutorials on how to get past certain routers and be able to download in active mode... if you want to check them out, go to http://www.animeplanet.d2g.com ... click on "forum", then go to "faq/tutorials" and there are instructions for linksys and a few other routers. active is WAY more preferable if you take the time to get out of passive mode.

well thanks

can you please explain precisely the difference and advantage of being in active mode?

c'mon, people, this is a DC HUB thread!

READY



SET



FLAME!!!

DC HUB: Most Confusing Program Of 2002 Award (tm)

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Originally posted by TiestoInTheMix c'mon, people, this is a DC HUB thread! READY SET FLAME!!! DC HUB: Most Confusing Program Of2002 Award (tm)

lmao!

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jamesholden
The best DJ / Producer in the entire Silverplanet.

well, passive mode is basically active mode, with less features... so theres no reason you should want to be in passive

as people have already said, passive is for people who are behind a router or sometimes a firewall.

if you are in passive mode, the main disadvantage is that you cant download from other people that are in passive mode as well. so, you get way less results in the search engine.

also, if you are passive you cant see ping times when you search, which is very helpful if you want to try someone fast to download from.

if passive you also cant use multi hub searches.

i think those are the only three things, but just the one about more search results should convince you enough im currently passive for the summer, but theres something weird with my router so im still not able to download in active mode... sucks. but i know those tutorials work, lots of people have used them and gotten it to work

thanks for the great tutorial Sothis, I wondered why I've never thought of it (although I did the same thing to get my ftp working through my router) . Thanks again.

BTW, I had a chance to browse your anime site. Very nice!

thanks ^_^

I myself just started two days ago to try to figure out the BS about closed ports on my router

I installed a router a couple months ago and since then tons of stupid stuff going on and well thanks to my laziness I never got around to trying to fix it all up

It's especially annoying cause I just got back on irc big time and it's painful when you don't know what you're doing with your router


thanks for your help sothis!