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

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.

wildest_jjk · 4 Mar 2012 at 14:23

Well that seals it then, thanks a lot

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