This was in another thread but I decided to give it it's own as it was somewhat off topic. Original thread : http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php?t=89011&page=2 please excuse the C+P work as it may seem out of context in this thread.
Anyway, Idea time, heehee, how about those with local only start asking those with international bw (especially those with uncapped) to grab things so that the local guys can grab from them? hmmmz, not exactly a new idea. As someone else mentioned upload kills us everytime.
As far as setting up an ftp, very easy, simplest way is probably to use something like WinFTP. I'm running a server right now, you're welcome to try it out ;-)
My IP: 41.246.163.88
Username: MyBroadband
Password: test
If you can resolve internationally,
My No-IP: nokoff.bounceme.net
Go easy on me ;-)
My MSN addie is [email protected] aswell as my email address. Please feel free to mail me.
EDIT: Oh and please use a decent client, flashfxp, cuteftp, turbpftp, etc etc. ;-) You'll save yourself a lot of trouble
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User Hazard reported average speeds of 36kb off of my ftp with his 512k account which is near the theoretical max.
If you average 36kb, that's roughly a 1cd movie in 6 hours, 2cd in 12, average 5000mb game in almost 2 days. I guess it's not that bad. For a 512k or 384k user it's perfect. I have basically all the content you could want ;-) if anyone wants to give me a local only account to try i'd be glad to make an account for you and you can have axx to everything I have. What do you say? I obviously don't want to profit out of it and you can have your full amount of bandwidth from me, I'll just "host" for you to download Reason being I don't have my usual uncapped line this month on my 4mb line and I hate to see it go to waste. Any takers? If you need any more info feel free to ask, if you drop me a mail please also include your username and password you would like on my ftp. Again, in order to maintain my full upload speed only one person will be allowed to take part.
EDIT: I suppose we could also "share" the account in that if you have a 30gb cap for instance, we both use the same login details and you download 15gb and i upload 15gb thereby using up the 30gb traffic. This way you would not be purchasing an extra account but instead it would work like a torrent system whereby you would be using 15gb of your upload to download my 15gb. If that makes any sense.
Thanks
hope to hear from you to try this experiment very soon
l8erz
Anyway, Idea time, heehee, how about those with local only start asking those with international bw (especially those with uncapped) to grab things so that the local guys can grab from them? hmmmz, not exactly a new idea. As someone else mentioned upload kills us everytime.
As far as setting up an ftp, very easy, simplest way is probably to use something like WinFTP. I'm running a server right now, you're welcome to try it out ;-)
My IP: 41.246.163.88
Username: MyBroadband
Password: test
If you can resolve internationally,
My No-IP: nokoff.bounceme.net
Go easy on me ;-)
My MSN addie is [email protected] aswell as my email address. Please feel free to mail me.
EDIT: Oh and please use a decent client, flashfxp, cuteftp, turbpftp, etc etc. ;-) You'll save yourself a lot of trouble
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User Hazard reported average speeds of 36kb off of my ftp with his 512k account which is near the theoretical max.
If you average 36kb, that's roughly a 1cd movie in 6 hours, 2cd in 12, average 5000mb game in almost 2 days. I guess it's not that bad. For a 512k or 384k user it's perfect. I have basically all the content you could want ;-) if anyone wants to give me a local only account to try i'd be glad to make an account for you and you can have axx to everything I have. What do you say? I obviously don't want to profit out of it and you can have your full amount of bandwidth from me, I'll just "host" for you to download Reason being I don't have my usual uncapped line this month on my 4mb line and I hate to see it go to waste. Any takers? If you need any more info feel free to ask, if you drop me a mail please also include your username and password you would like on my ftp. Again, in order to maintain my full upload speed only one person will be allowed to take part.
EDIT: I suppose we could also "share" the account in that if you have a 30gb cap for instance, we both use the same login details and you download 15gb and i upload 15gb thereby using up the 30gb traffic. This way you would not be purchasing an extra account but instead it would work like a torrent system whereby you would be using 15gb of your upload to download my 15gb. If that makes any sense.
Thanks
hope to hear from you to try this experiment very soon
l8erz
Maybe you should keep your thoughts to yourself ;-)