[BC] ftp sites

[Ron Cole]

It has not effect on the FTP Site as such.

Its all about Bandwidth, if there are multiple users on the FTP site you may
not get a clean playback because you are sharing that FTP sites pipe to the
internet.  Its not much of a problem these days as most sites have high cap.
connections but back when a T1 was a good Internet connection, you could
easily fill up that pipe.

Storing it on the local drive generally ensures you get a clean playback.

Ron


On 9/15/06, Don Niccum <donn at dfn.com> wrote:
>
> I have always been told that when I need audio from a ftp site, always
> download it and then play it locally, never to play it directly from the
> ftp
> site.
>
> So that I have the info in my head for future reference, does playing
> audio
> directly from the ftp site affect the ftp server in some adverse way?
>
> Don Niccum
> KCKN
> donn at dfn.com
>
>
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