Network Routing questions.

[iwodo]

If i have a broadband sharing via a central router to 4 computer. One of them act as a file server.

1. Does a File server require a 1Ghz + CPU if it was simply sit there just to share file in p2p, storing mp3s, and FTP?

2. If i was downloading a file through normal HTTP, or FTP, BT, or other p2p services, and i choose the download distination as one of the drive in my file server. Would the file actually go through my computer first and then transfer to the file server?

 

[Lord Evermore]

A simple file server doesn't need much CPU power, especially for a home user. Maybe if you have a thousand users you'd want a slightly faster machine. But companies are still running servers on 486's and getting along okay.

If you save to a network folder, then yes the file first is pulled to your computer, then your computer sends it to the network folder. It has to be this way because it's your machine doing the download, then saving it to the final location. The server doesn't see the download event, it only sees your machine performing a network file transfer to save a file.