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Postby Bushido Philosopher » Tue Oct 08, 2002 10:07 pm

Download: 275KB/sec
Upload: 254KB/sec

Wowee....better than I thought. :)
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Postby Bushido Philosopher » Tue Oct 08, 2002 10:53 pm

what in the....???

what's the difference between KB/sec and kbps??
i got a completely different test result the second time i tried too....
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Postby klinky » Wed Oct 09, 2002 5:58 am

kbps = kilobits per second
KBps = KiloBytes per second

It takes 8 kilobits to equal 1 kilobyte.



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Postby TheRealNeoHentaiMaster » Thu Oct 10, 2002 7:03 am

OK, let me break it down for you. Basically, servering your video off your computer, unless your going to doing it to one person at a time and only plan to give the IP adress to a few trusted friends...IS A VERY BAD AND IMPRACTICLE IDEA.
You have a 256kb cable connection. Wich means even if it wasnt capped, you wouldnt have that fast an upload. However, its kind of an industry standard that all cable modem upload speeds are capped at 128KB, thats KiloBITS, not Bytes. Thats around 20kbs(Kilobytes) that your gonna be able to get uploading. So. if you only have one person downloading your vid, the fastest that person can get is 20Kbs. Now thats just the speed issue. Since you obviously dont seem to know much about setting up an FTP server, I doubt you know much about setting up a firewall either. If you set up an FTP server and list the adress in any kind of public forum, your opening yourself up to tremendous security riskes. You would be easy prey for even a novice hacker.

So basically, unless your planning only only using this to give the stuff to a few trusted friends, I would not recomend this idea at all, just upload your vid to some other file server.
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Postby klinky » Thu Oct 10, 2002 7:33 am

Unless you have a crappy program, you're not very vurnerable to hax0r attacks. As long as your have your ftp server password protected. You can't firewall ports that need to be open for the ftp to work port 21 + some extra ports. A firewall would not protect you say if your program has a buffer overflow bug in it that allows the hax0rz in.


Firewalls are good monitoring devices to check and see if anyone is trying to hack you or if you just want to keep an eye on what programs you have accessing the net. Other then that it's not gonna do much.

Also I like the KB = KiloBytes since Bytes are BIGGER then bits kilobits ;p

I ran a FTP server off of my 384kilobit dsl connection for months w/o being hax0red. However I did get sick of my games slowing to a crawl when someone would suddenly connnect. Now that I have cable, I decided to just give up on hosting my AMVs and am waiting the donut / a good hosting deal ;|

If you still want to try it out, grab GuildFTP and read the help info on it.



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Postby Kusoyaro » Thu Oct 10, 2002 11:34 am

I ran a public AMV FTP server off my computer for 3 years while I was in college on a T1. You have to be really careful...luckily, my school never complained about the bandwidth, but I had to heavily limit the users because my computer couldn't handle it, and at the time, my system was pretty robust. If I turned off server limits, my computer would invariably crash within an hour from idiots hammering me. I also had to turn it off occasionally when running system-intensive programs, as my computer tended to be sluggish when I had 10 or 20 users downloading on T1's!

And just FYI, I used Serv-U, which is very simple and no-frills...never had any problems with it.
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Re: ....

Postby Bushido Philosopher » Thu Oct 10, 2002 11:29 pm

if you only have one person downloading your vid, the fastest that person can get is 20Kbs


so meaning that one person will only be able to download at a time at 20KB/sec max...??? :( [/quote]
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Re: ....

Postby FurryCurry » Fri Oct 11, 2002 7:16 pm

Ko Oh Yoku wrote:
if you only have one person downloading your vid, the fastest that person can get is 20Kbs


so meaning that one person will only be able to download at a time at 20KB/sec max...??? :(


Yes, that's pretty much it. maybe a little cloase to 30k, depending, but yeah, 1 @ 20-27K, 2 @ 10-14k, etc, and you will barely be able to use your connection, as the constant leeching will slow down your browsing & such quite a lot.

It may also be against the rules of your ISP, and get you a nasty phone call to your house, with a threat to shut off your service, or worse.

Sorry for such bad news.
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