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Video sharing/streaming/?
Mcgreag:
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--- Quote from: Mcgreag on October 02, 2011, 09:31:48 PM ---As for the tumbdrive "solution". Not sure of 120 of those with accompanying usb hubs to be able to connect everything is actually going to weight less than the current harddrives :) Also with the cost of those it would be cheaper to get a fiber connection. Only 7-8k$ for that while the thumbdrives would cost at least 10k$.
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Your response makes me think that you're actually carrying your entire collection back and forth. What's wrong with just bringing what you want to watch on a single stick, and deleting and replacing files on the stick as you go? Do you never go home or something?
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Your response makes me think you haven't actually read what I have written. I take the stuff home in regular interval to fill up with new stuff that have been downloaded since the last time. I usually wait until I have around 1-2tb of data to add so I don't have to do it too often as the weight is a problem (total weight atm is around 10-12kg). And just filling up a a single 2tb drive and move only that is not an option because I also need to organize everything in a way that makes it actually useful and that includes sorting, removing of duplicates (not so easy as it might sound when you have over 2000 titles and different groups use different names for a show) and anidb indexing. All of this takes several days and I don't have the time to sit at the club doing just that.
The whole point in having the collection at home and stream it to streamline the process of getting new stuff into the collection. If it's always at home I can do a little bit a time instead of having to do everything in these large chunks that can takes weeks if I am low on time which means the whole collection is unavailable at the club during that time.
--- Quote from: Bob2004 on October 02, 2011, 09:49:54 PM ---Re. the error 720, make sure that your router, firewall, etc aren't blocking the connection. As far as I can tell, that error means the client was unable to establish a connection, so there's probably something blocking it in between somewhere. Forward the correct ports/protocols, and make sure to allow incoming connections from the internet.
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Error 720 does not mean something is blocking (that's error 800). 720 means there was a problem negotiating a the set of protocols and services to use. The usual problem (if the server is correctly setup) is that the client is missing a service that the server uses. But I am fairly sure that the problem is that the server is missing a service it needs to provide to the clients.
kitamesume:
..., if you ever get to shell out 1K$ remember the sat dish wifi first, it shouldn't even cost you half of that.
--- Quote from: kitamesume on October 02, 2011, 09:12:25 AM ---edit:
cost of building one:
http://www.amazon.com/DIRECTV-060209-Dish-for-DirecTv/dp/B000HRQXQQ/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1317518919&sr=8-1
18" Dish for DirecTv
List Price: $189.99
Price: $27.98
You Save: $162.01 (85%)
+ some mods for the dish $50~ ish
+ WLAN card $60~ ish http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833281002
= $138 x 2 (total: $276)
note: obviously if you already have a WLan router/card then you can skip the option of buying one.
considering you could also hit the internet through this setup you'd be saving a couple of bucks from getting another line.
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Freedom Kira:
--- Quote from: Mcgreag on October 02, 2011, 10:24:29 PM ---Your response makes me think you haven't actually read what I have written. I take the stuff home in regular interval to fill up with new stuff that have been downloaded since the last time. I usually wait until I have around 1-2tb of data to add so I don't have to do it too often as the weight is a problem (total weight atm is around 10-12kg). And just filling up a a single 2tb drive and move only that is not an option because I also need to organize everything in a way that makes it actually useful and that includes sorting, removing of duplicates (not so easy as it might sound when you have over 2000 titles and different groups use different names for a show) and anidb indexing. All of this takes several days and I don't have the time to sit at the club doing just that.
The whole point in having the collection at home and stream it to streamline the process of getting new stuff into the collection. If it's always at home I can do a little bit a time instead of having to do everything in these large chunks that can takes weeks if I am low on time which means the whole collection is unavailable at the club during that time.
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Hmm. I had read it, but apparently I didn't fully understand your situation. I think I still don't fully understand. Do you have your client set up to download everything that comes in through RSS feeds?
I think it would be easier and more time-efficient to split the work into more frequent transfers. Each time, you're working with a few gigs of data instead of 1-2TB (unless you use up space like water). This is assuming that you visit the clubhouse often enough that each time you visit the clubhouse you don't have more than 64GB of new data.
I had assumed that your main collection is at home, and you are bringing temporary copies into the clubhouse. The way you are describing it now, it sounds like it's the other way around.
Mcgreag:
I am not downloading everything but probably 80-90% of all anime and some liveaction from bakabt, plus some stuff from other places when not available on bakabt.
It's not going to be more efficient to split it up to smaller physical transfers as doing the organization (sorting etc) at the club is not practical. I have done physical transfers for a few years now but the thing is that the collection is becoming too large, both in a physical sense (kilos and cubic decimeters) but also in the virtual sense (gigabytes, titles and files) so that physical transfer is not practical anymore no matter how you do it. I have know this for over 2 years but it's not until know that we have had an internet connection that is good enough to present an alternative.
This brings us back to the topic which is to not do physical transfer but to find which way of virtual transfer works best.
1. Windows shares over VPN tunnel
This is what I hope will work but I am still having some problems with it. Mainly the huge (2-10x) speed reduction I am seeing compared to a non vpn tunnel connection. At this time I am hoping that the speed will be good enough even reduced from the 24mbs connection, but it's something I can't know for sure until the connection is up and running which will take a few weeks at least.
I am still hoping for some insights to why the large speed reduction (I find it too large to just be VPN overhead). The only help online that I have found talks about MTU, but I have checked and TeamViewer already sets the MTU to 1400 to avoid that problem.
2. Full set of drives at both sites with a remote backup service running.
The main deterrent for this is the large initial cost of getting a whole new set of drives (around 5-600$). There are also some smaller problems related to the fact that the clubhouse will not have fixed IP (which I do have at home), but that's solvable.
3. Streaming
I know a lot of people here consider this to be the perfect solution but to me it's the worst case scenario if I can't get anything else to work. I might set it up alongside solution 1 for the times when network just doesn't deliver the necessary speed.
kitamesume:
have you tried turning your main PC into a FTP file server?
http://filezilla-project.org/client_features.php
--- Quote from: Mcgreag on September 30, 2011, 08:33:06 PM ---My connection at home is a very stable 100/100 fiber connection.
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since this shouldn't be much of an issue for your home line.
ah and you wont be paying ppl monthly fees as you're the server itself, plus there shouldn't be a limiting factor other than your line or your machine.
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