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[Lee]

User icon's explained

This guide will explain what the user icons in ApexDC++ that have been adopted from the latest DC++ versions. Currently, there is a seleclion between using the old method, and the new (go to Settings -> General).

There are 4 versions of the person (user icon) - green, yellow, warning icon, red - and a mine icon

• Green: 5M upload and above
  
• Yellow: 0.1M - 2M upload
  
• Red: 0.01M - 0.1M upload
  
• Warning icon: 0.005M (very slow)
  
• Mine: User has uploaded at constant 100kB/s or above

[Rikis]

Firewalled? Isn't it passive users? If so then it's buggy feature. Red don't depend from is user passive or not.

If u don't mind noobish question about this topic. That exactly mean icons "User with fireball"(mine) and "User with server"(router on the network)

[Lee]

Rikis, on Aug 27 2006, 12:41 PM, said:

Firewalled? Isn't it passive users? If so then it's buggy feature. Red don't depend from is user passive or not.

If u don't mind noobish question about this topic. That exactly mean icons "User with fireball"(mine) and "User with server"(router on the network)

Yes, firewalled - can be set in active or passive, if the user isn't connectable he is shown in red.

[Rikis]

Lee, on Aug 27 2006, 02:43 PM, said:

Yes, firewalled - can be set in active or passive, if the user isn't connectable he is shown in red.

It's confusing. I tried connect ~10 users, all conected except one. Then, that is not connectable? And that diference it is?

[Lee]

Rikis, on Aug 27 2006, 12:55 PM, said:

It's confusing. I tried connect ~10 users, all conected except one. Then, that is not connectable? And that diference it is?

Connectable as in his whole in/out connection... you maybe able to get his filelist, but he won't be able to get yours.

[Big Muscle]

you changed the behaviour ? red user icon means speed 0.01 - 0.1

[Crise]

Big Muscle, on Aug 28 2006, 02:27 PM, said:

you changed the behaviour ? red user icon means speed 0.01 - 0.1

Nah we haven't Lee's mistake

[Lee]

Crise, on Aug 28 2006, 05:17 PM, said:

Nah we haven't Lee's mistake

More like our mistake, since you okay'ed it.

[Crise]

Lee, on Aug 28 2006, 05:34 PM, said:

More like our mistake, since you okay'ed it.

that's true , but i thought you'd know things like this, you being SDC beta tester and all

[gaminggirl]

What does the mines mean??

[Lee]

gaminggirl, on Sep 27 2006, 06:55 AM, said:

What does the mines mean??

The user has an upload speed greater than 100kB/s.

[eXfinosis]

I'm involved with getting a university hub started for the University of New Brunswick and I reccommended people use ApexDC (though I am not that familiar myself, but it is easy to use and tell them to setup, and looks pretty).  But now I have a baunch of users asking questions about the interface, and I am not really that familiar.

They are saying that they are red in the user list and are not firewalled (or fireballed as it says). Are there any other possibilities for why they would be apearing that way (they're not in passive, and no router either)

Also how does the program determine server status for the icons and a few other of the user statuses?

[Lee]

eXfinosis, on Oct 5 2006, 12:15 AM, said:

I'm involved with getting a university hub started for the University of New Brunswick and I reccommended people use ApexDC (though I am not that familiar myself, but it is easy to use and tell them to setup, and looks pretty).  But now I have a baunch of users asking questions about the interface, and I am not really that familiar.

They are saying that they are red in the user list and are not firewalled (or fireballed as it says). Are there any other possibilities for why they would be apearing that way (they're not in passive, and no router either)

Also how does the program determine server status for the icons and a few other of the user statuses?

The fireball is determined by the user uploading at 100kB/s for a consistant period of time. The users appearing red mean they have a slow upload speed (0.01-0.1MB).

[Lee]

Updated guide to show what the mines icon represents.

[deringer]

Howdy all,

Just got a DC hub going for a community based network we're running and am (actively) using Apex for the first time. It's a great app and I thank those that have developed it.

I haven't found, or haven't looked hard enough?, for an explanation of the user icons. I found out the mine is a good thing, but there's another i've seen that neither me nor any of the other users are sure about.



I refer to the icons next to the bottom three users. What do these ones indicate? Would they simply indicate users on the same subnet (my IP being 10.25.10.251).

This is an initiative developed/put into practise by my IP, where users on the same telephone exchange can share data, without it counting against any monthly data quota, so we're all on our own "networks".

It makes sense if that is the explanation!

[Satan]

AFAIK that indicates a user on a LAN connection. As defined in the settings.

[deringer]

Thanks for that. I guess I just didn't look hard enough! It does make sense, based on the configuration of the network we're running on.

Only thing that threw me and made me think twice, was that not all the users had the same icon

[ifmn]

I dont think so. (Unless my lan is the whole net ) AFAIK that's a user with server - if you dont stop your PC and dont leave that hub i think you get such icon.

[TheJackal]

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[dsorc]

These icons have bugged me far too long. Here what I think everything is.



1.1 Warning Icon - 5 kilobits (> 1 kB/s)
1.2 Red - 10 to 100 kilobits (1 - 12 kB/s)
1.3 Yellow - 100 kilobits to 2 megabits (12 - 256 kB/s)
1.4 Green - over 5 megabits (> 640 kB/s)

2.1 Modem / ISDN
2.2 Cable / DSL
2.3 Wireless
2.4 LAN (T1) / LAN (T3)

3.1 Admin / OP
3.2 Red Mine - User has uploaded at constant 100kB/s or above
3.3 ???
3.4 Question Mark - No connection info

4.1 Green Check - You have communicated with the user. Can appear over any user (exchanged file lists)
4.2 Red Wall - User is firewalled, not connectable or passive. Can appear over any other user icon.
4.3 Dimmed Icon - User is away. Can appear over any other user icon.
4.4 User is using Net Limiter.


Any comments guys? (errors, missing icons)