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Originally posted by oscar
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...so i'd be setting up an ftp server for every machine? i have 4 computers here besides whatever visiting computers come by. so i mean sure; i guess i could designate one "the server" and keep it on all the time for convenience and whenever i need to transfer a file i upload to the 'server' and then download from the computer that wants the file... but that's a bit of a pain. or i could set up an ftp server on every computer; but again that's a bit of a pain; plus i'd have to give all the computers static ips instead of the randomly assigned ones now which even though isn't so much a pain i wouldn't qualify that as easy.
plus not everyone is a geek that is comfy with ftp; while a p2p app normally has a nice easy gui that doesn't involve typing in ip addresses and such...
but sure, it's a solution if there really is no such thing as a p2p that will stay in just my network.