Private Peer-to-Peer?

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...
 
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.
 
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.
 
timwhit said:
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.
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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)?
 
It might be slower, but you wouldn't be using astronomical amounts of bandwidth hosting the files yourself.
 
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.
 
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