BitTorrent Sync creates private, peer-to-peer Dropbox, no cloud required

No size limits, no cloud: Hands-on with BitTorrent's new file syncing software.

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[Decker-Mage]

Nibblers[/url]"acp7a1t]Now we have a "legitimate" reason to demand that our internet providers do not block P2P traffic.

I say legitimate because until now if I have ever complained about this practice more people than I expected turn around and say: why do you need p2p? Isn't that just used by internet hackers to doenload illegal stuff? Sigh

I can definitely make a case here surrounded as I am with people who simply won't back things up while I'm sitting on a large (!) amount of file storage space and available bandwidth. They can easily grasp the pass-phrase concept now that they dimly understand WiFi requires it (well, here anyway). That is, of course, if Comcast doesn't six strike us to death for using BT-protocol for legitimate uses (mostly tailored distro's and VM's like backtrack, & al. currently).

Free, fairly reliable, modestly secure, might even get some cooperation around here. Yeah, it could grow on me.

 

[Decker-Mage]

sporkwitch[/url]":2ap3xqog]
This actually raises MY question, though, which is can it sync through NAT over the internet, or do I need to be on the same local network?

Even if it requires being on the local network, this shows a lot of potential for getting rid of everyone's favourite headache: SAMBA config. Seems like it would be a hell of a lot easier to simply install this on all my machines and just punch in the secrets, than fighting with SAMBA and Windows to play nice with password-protected sharing.

Which is where I am. How do I cross NAT, especially when I do NOT have control of the routers/firewalls in question. This still has to meet the dead-easy criteria. ... still wading through the forum there.

Aside: sporkwitch? Talk about cognitive dissonance!

 

[Decker-Mage]

sporkwitch[/url]":1czspbzu]Either way, it's gotta be easier than making Windows play nice with SAMBA, never mind kludges like dynamicDNS (which are TOS violations on pretty much all american ISPs).

There was a nice piece here on Ars {http://meincmagazine.com/information-...y-extra-for-business-class-broadband-at-home/} on why one user paid the extra fee for Comcast Business class which is pretty apropos to your last, and the issue of servers and bit-torrent in general. DynamicDNS was the prior issue, although this only lends strength to that case of a provisioned server (licenses up the yin-yang here, TOS was the limitation). Interesting. Still no idea what I'd do with the phone service. My cell phone lives in a drawer. [EMail me, I might, just might, get back to you.]