Torrents to replace our FTP server

[amsterdamned]

Hi guys,

Long time personal torrent user and have recently started thinking about whether we could distribute our company's work files with torrents instead of our FTP server.

We do a lot of video production work for clients overseas which involves transmitting quite large files over FTP. We have our own in house FTP server which sits on a 200kb/s uplink in our Sydney office. Sadly, uplink bandwidth is still really expensive here in Australia. Additionally we have another 2 internet connections in our Sydney office for staff use each with 200kb/s uplink. We have several clients overseas and when everyone tries to download from the single 200kb/s FTP uplink things get quite slow.

Would it be possible for us to put a BT client on each of the three internet connections in our Sydney office and put the finished video file on each. Then create a private torrent file which we send to a client overseas. The client would then use a BT client to download the video from all 3 Sydney machines (each on a different internet connection) at the same time. In theory shouldn't this allow us to triple our uplink bandwidth?

Cheers

[rb07]

Would it be possible for us to put a BT client on each of the three internet connections in our Sydney office and put the finished video file on each. Then create a private torrent file which we send to a client overseas. The client would then use a BT client to download the video from all 3 Sydney machines (each on a different internet connection) at the same time. In theory shouldn't this allow us to triple our uplink bandwidth?

In short: yes.

You need to install a tracker in one of your locations, the tracker info goes inside the torrent file, the rest is as you describe and you will not only triple the upload, the other, external clients also help seeding so the load on your side is lower than ftp.

[amsterdamned]

Brilliant thanks, just wanted to confirm I wasn't talking complete nonsense. Will get my head round trackers in the next couple of days and take the idea for test run.

[Rolcol]

You can use the opentracker project for your tracker.