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Originally Posted by grc
I was just wondering if anyone out there has tried putting stills or clips of their content out on the P2P networks and how that worked out for you in getting traffic.
Was it worth your time? Or what made you stop using Peer to peer ?
Which of the P2P networks did you use and how did they compare? (if you could tell which p2p caused what visits which I dont even know if thats possible)
And lastly, What tips would you share with this forum on how to set up that station which is online to the P2P networks? ie what things did you need to do for securing everything else that you didnt want shared. or could you run more than one P2P at a time while your machine was in share mode. things of that nature.
thanks in advance to your replies
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On several occassions in the past I had set up one machine dedicated to file sharing networks. I had several different ones running at various times by themselves as well as with other file sharing progs, and never really ran into any problems when running 3 or less at a time. It was mainly a memory thing that caused the problems with that, though. It was pretty much impossible to determine if it was effective or not as a marketing tool, but it was worth taking the shot. Once files get out there, they stay out there and they multiply.
What made me stop was the lack of a need to promote a pay site, but I would turn off the file sharing programs when I needed more bandwidth for something I was doing.
I used a whole bunch of different file sharing progs (whatever seemed to be the most popular ones at the time) , but couldn't really tell you if any one was much of a difference from another.
Not really sure what to suggest for the machine other than lots of RAM and being a machine you don't use for anything else.
I know... not much help. I had no way of knowing if anything I had put out there ever brought anything back in.