Yes, we have seen this before. Paul asked me to host it for him back in May and I made the link available in the L39 Wren 44 thread. You just picked it up from there and stuck it on your website. I don't want to be a killjoy and I certainly don't want to get at you, but it would be common curtesy to at least acknowledge the source/owner of the videos that you're (attempting) to host.

It's not my video so personally I don't have a beef with you about that, that's for Paul to take up with you directly - but Paul is a very easy going bloke so I don't suspect he has a problem with it either. Whilst I'm sure your intentions are honourable it doesn't serve anyone to direct folk to download from the VERY slow link that you're running, presumably from your home PC. You might have a 576kbps line (average home broadband cabel/DSL speed) but that will most likely be in one direction. You'll find your own upload bandwidth (which equates to download bandwidth for everyone else connecting to your "server") will be throttled by your ISP and will be significantly less - although will most likely be just fine for hosting text based forums.

My advise to you would be to use your ISP designated webspace for hosting stuff like videos, etc. You'll find that it should be more than adequate for the purpose of hosting high-bandwidth content, such as the 10Mb video that you've just posted a link to in a global forum, directing potentially thousands of people to an inadequate resource for such a purpose - all you're going to do is hack people off. The best I can get out of your connection is about 4kbps. Don't be surprise if your ISP gets the hump with you, as you might find you're breaching the terms of your ISP/Broadband agreement. The reason you can download with reasonable speed from your school is that your house and your school are probably on the same local circuit. It is also quite possible that you share the restricted upload bandwidth with everyone else on that same circuit - if that were the case I might get really hacked off if I was one of your neighbours. Just a thought.

I just downloaded the ME262 video and it took well over an hour to download a video that is less than 9Mb in size. For comparison, if you'd hosted this over a regular dialup connection it would be quicker as I believe that upload/download bandwidth ratios are the same for dialup - at 56K it would have taken about half an hour.

The original link to Paul Grey's L39 video is here :-

[link]http://homepage.ntlworld.com/phil.chisholm/videos/Paul%20l39%20v2.wmv[/link]

and as far as I'm concerned anyone can do with this (and others) as they please as the intention is to share it with everyone but it would be nice if they have advised the person that created them in the first place that they wish to host them elsewhere, and made sure that the resource that they wish to use is upto the task in the first place.

The stuff I have stored in that particular path was put there by me on request of the videos original creators and the only links to them were posted by me exist on RCUniverse, nowhere else - out of respect for the video creators I have not posted those URLs anywhere else. :-

Sorry to sound so pompus, it is not my intention, but you really need to rethink the type of data you're trying to share over the link that you have. Building new dedicated servers (as you mention on your website and elsewhere on RCUniverse) will not fix your problem as the issue is your available bandwidth not your hardware.

Phil