by 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.