ddrueding
Fixture
I'm looking to set up a small private p2p network. I saw these guys and it looks pretty good. Thoughts?
Private Peer-to-Peer?
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ddrueding
Fixture
Nevermind. You need their premium version to transfer more than one file at a time, or to download a file from multiple sources.
I'm OK with paying for software, but they are charging monthly for stand-alone software? FTS.
Still looking...
I'm OK with paying for software, but they are charging monthly for stand-alone software? FTS.
Still looking...
theSwede
What is this storage?
Mercutio
Fatwah on Western Digital
Hamachi is super slow.
Azureus has a private tracker built in, but then you have to use Azureus.
Azureus has a private tracker built in, but then you have to use Azureus.
My friends and I just use FTP. Hassle to setup with firewalls though, and you have to go for an odd port number as most ISP's block 21. I just put my port up in the thirty thousands and have never had a problem with ISP blocking.
timwhit
Hairy Aussie
With FTP, you are relying on your ISP's bandwidth. I think the whole point of bittorrent is to do away with that limitation and just use the ISP for tracking the bittorrents.
Chewy509
Wotty wot wot.
But with a private P2P WAN, wouldn't your user numbers by in the single digits or 10's, negating many of the advantages that large scale P2P networks bring, eg bandwidth sharing?
I see FTP as a viable solution for this scenario (considering all Win2K+ boxes come with a FTP server built-in as part of IIS)?
timwhit
Hairy Aussie
It might be slower, but you wouldn't be using astronomical amounts of bandwidth hosting the files yourself.
ddrueding
Fixture
The idea is to have a complete copy of all files at all locations. By using p2p instead of FTP, all the existing users could help bring a new node up to speed.