April 24, 2005
File transfer
FTP sucks. The session breaks and you are dead. 100 tries later it's over. If the IP addresses change in the process, you can't even get it to automatically restart.
Never felt this way? Try sharing a 1GB file across a wifi network.
The filesharing guys have solved this problem. Your p2p client logs you in, checks you into the brokered environment, and resumes where you left off. All without user intervention.
But there isn't an easy solution for doing this in your own house. Limewire etc put you on the public internet. I just need to connect 4 computers so they can share movies, music, and so on. How to? Ideas? (Needs to work on Mac and PC both, unlike Grouper which is actually OK.)
Posted by amol at April 24, 2005 09:36 AM
