Hi all,
I am asking for a specific piece of advice, I am after a small low powered unit (thinking a Rasp Pi) to use as a downloader
Basically I have recently moved out of a family home where I purchased 80/20 rated FTTC and moved to a location (shared household) which has a 2.5mb connection and no FTTC at the local cab.
I was thinking of attaching a Rasp pi at my family home to do my downloading, then transferring it to my work machine (will be limited to 17mb) and stick on a USB drive.
Its an annoying way of doing it but that's all I can do at the moment.
With the Raspberry Pi, would this be an ok downloader box? my throughput at family home would be roughly about 60-65mb down.
I was looking at using an OS on the Pi that would allow me to install a torrent and NZB client, although probably wont use them both at the same time.
Attached to the Pi I would need to attach a powered USB drive for storage.
I would then need some way of setting up the Pi as an FTP server, which I can connect to from work to transfer the files, again would this be possible? and would the Pi be OK transferring this over the internet to get best throughput
Or would it be best to scrap the Pi and get a cheap PC?
I am asking for a specific piece of advice, I am after a small low powered unit (thinking a Rasp Pi) to use as a downloader
Basically I have recently moved out of a family home where I purchased 80/20 rated FTTC and moved to a location (shared household) which has a 2.5mb connection and no FTTC at the local cab.
I was thinking of attaching a Rasp pi at my family home to do my downloading, then transferring it to my work machine (will be limited to 17mb) and stick on a USB drive.
Its an annoying way of doing it but that's all I can do at the moment.
With the Raspberry Pi, would this be an ok downloader box? my throughput at family home would be roughly about 60-65mb down.
I was looking at using an OS on the Pi that would allow me to install a torrent and NZB client, although probably wont use them both at the same time.
Attached to the Pi I would need to attach a powered USB drive for storage.
I would then need some way of setting up the Pi as an FTP server, which I can connect to from work to transfer the files, again would this be possible? and would the Pi be OK transferring this over the internet to get best throughput
Or would it be best to scrap the Pi and get a cheap PC?
