New home server questions

wildest_jjk · 4 Mar 2012 at 14:08

Hey everyone,

I am looking to either build or buy a home server. I am thinking of using it for storage, media sharing, possibly hosting a game server and maybe some other things.

The game server is basically so I can play with a friend who lives at university. I believe this would be a solution to allow us to play together? Providing we use open ports at his university?

Is this viable? What do I need?

Thanks

cheechm · 4 Mar 2012 at 14:11

First thing to think about with a game server is the internet connection to the server. What is it?

axer · 4 Mar 2012 at 14:13

If its just going to be you and a friend then you'll almost certainly be fine as its unlikely that one remote 'client' will saturate your upstream.

What will be the issue (if there is one) is whether your Uni friend will be able to connect to your server due to firewall restrictions their end.

wildest_jjk · 4 Mar 2012 at 14:14

O2 Broadband 12Mbps Download and 1Mbps Upload. I have no idea if this is to low to run a server or not.

Thanks for the responses.

Bry · 4 Mar 2012 at 14:22

the upload is far too small for what you want to do with it

wildest_jjk · 4 Mar 2012 at 14:23

Well that seals it then, thanks a lot

cheechm · 4 Mar 2012 at 14:24

You can use it as a local storage server but it won't be too good for anything connecting remotely.

wildest_jjk · 4 Mar 2012 at 14:28

Yer thats fine, guess I will have to come up with some other idea for the gaming side of things. Maybe rent a server from a company or just wait until I get BT infinity!

Thanks