izimi.com

[mthomas2]

I'm experimenting wiht the free izimi peer-to-peer software to share out pics here and elsewhere, and I'd appreciate it if a few of you would let me know how fast this URL comes up:

http://michael-thomas.izimi.com/1403.izimi

You don't have to time it, just give me a rough idea.


Thanks

[Paul W. Abernathy]

Micheal, I think the picture came up VERY fast but then again I am on High Speed.....but looks fine and very clear.

[ksherstobetoff]

Somewhere between 5 and 10 seconds

[mthomas2]

Thanks. Looks workable, then.

[wforsyth]

About seven seconds on high speed DSL.

[Larry D. Kage]

6 seconds on cable.

[David Nice]

Does that stuff then get posted on their web site for all to see or can you keep it private?

[mthomas2]

It's stright peer-to-peer, being served up from a hard drive on my home network to the remote browser. AFAIK encryption is not availaible via this service, but no copy resides anywhere else (except Homeland Security's servers, I suppose) unless someone downloads it locally at their end. The major limitaton is that upload speed is throttled by most ISPs, my cable (basic service level) modem clocks out at around 1.5M down but only around 275K up. Still, sharing to a small number of users is simpler this way than using one of the photo hosting sites or uploading to a web site.

You can tag a file, and it them becomes searchable on at izimi.com, but if you don't know (or can't guess) the tag or user-ID there is no easy way to find it - for example I tagged that one with "duct", so a search on that tag will find and display a thumbnail (from the copy on my disk), or if you know my user name you can search that way, but without one or the other there is no way to find it.

Probably there are encryption clients for browsers that will dynamically en/decrypt these files (all izimi knows is that it's a file, it doesnt care what kind) but as I've no need for this level of security so I have not looked into doing this.

Likely, the biggest security risk is that someone will hack the izimi client - after all, it's serving up files from your HD to the net, and I can see where it might be compromised to server up everything accessible on a local drive or a local network share, and I've taken some precautions to prevent that from happening on the PC running their client.

[W. Michael Chris]

About 12 seconds.

[Brian E. Kelly]

Originally Posted by ksherstobetoff

Somewhere between 5 and 10 seconds

Same here

[David Nice]

Originally Posted by mthomas2

It's stright peer-to-peer, being served up from a hard drive on my home network to the remote browser. AFAIK encryption is not availaible via this service...

Just wondered if there was a requirment for the uploads to be visible on their site. Thanks.