A clubbox is a personal website generally with a large amount of storage allocated for each user. Each user starts off with a 100GB ClubBox that they can use to upload files to share to others. When they are almost at their 100GB limit, their Box can increase incrementally by 100GB. Depending on the traffic of the box, the user can either be a Bronze, Silver, or Gold user. With Gold, their files do not expire after 10 days and 10 downloads like the other two user levels. Clubbox providers charge a fixed monthly fee for a premium account. The owner of the account is free to upload and share a blog, pictures, or videos.But actually,it is a share space for everyone to download files. Clubbox services are very popular in Russia and in East Asian countries such as Korea, Taiwan, and China.

Clubbox works on a semi-torrent swarm system, with newer files with higher popularity having much higher speeds. This works on the premise that the program fcagent.exe runs on your computer without you limiting the bandwidth. When you finish downloading a file and all file transfers are complete, ClubBox starts uploading the files that you have downloaded. In order to make people leave their ClubBox program running, you get 10 mile points per hour of leaving the program on. After 1000 mileage points, you can begin obtaining coupons to download faster. Coupon brackets of 2GB, 5GB, 10GB, 20GB, 50GB, 300GBs exist.

Downloads are limited to 50KB/s for all free users non coupon users. Speeds of 100KB/s are obtainable for free users if lucky.

Clubbox uses an Internet Explorer ActiveX control as a download manager and TCP port 19101 for transfers. PD Box is a similar application that uses TCP ports in the 15000-15099 range.

External links

Korean Clubbox

Official Clubbox Thread at D-Addicts - Contains informational links, instructions on how-to obtain an account, Clubbox search engines, and IRC chat/help.