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Software => HFS ~ HTTP File Server => Topic started by: mike87 on May 17, 2010, 07:32:27 PM

Title: How does HFS work exactly?
Post by: mike87 on May 17, 2010, 07:32:27 PM

My sister had HFS on our home network, and sharing files was just as fast as if we copy+pasted over the network, yet we were still being charged for bandwidth from our ISP. Can anyone explain why that was happening? There's no way we were uploading/downlaoding that fast, as the upload from our ISP is capped at 35-40kb/s.

Title: Re: How does HFS work exactly?
Post by: rejetto on May 18, 2010, 12:02:50 PM

cases
1. your ISP may be charging even for the local traffic, that's very unfair.
2. you are using internet addresses instead of local addresses when sharing, and this may be fooling your ISP.
If the addresses you are using are no-ip (any dynamic dns service) or numeric starting with 99, then you are using the wrong address.