Questions about donating bandwidth

[jrcohen]

I live in Austin, one of the best cities in America, and because of Google's push on building a fiber network from the ground up here it has forced at&t to step their game up as well. As my neighborhood does not seem to be on the fast track to Google Fiber, my DW and I decided to sign up with AT&T Gigapower this week. We are getting our install on Saturday and will be receiving a proposed 300 Mbps upstream as well as downstream; to be upgraded to 1 Gbps by mid year. With this new found bandwidth, I would like to give back to the community I've been glad to be a part of for the last 10 years. I had a few questions for the mods on how I can be of help.

I have never hosted a home server. I have done server installs, setup, and basic IT work for the servers at our office. I am in the process of flushing our home desktop and installing a clean version of Windows 8. What hardware, software, and or set up would I need?

Also, we will have a terabyte limit on bandwidth, how much bandwidth does hosting the streams average on a monthly basis?

I wasn't sure if this should be a forum post or a PA, but would really like to help out.

[Amy]

Wow ~ sounds like you will have lightning fast internet with that! Hope you are able to host another stream

[cy1229]

In the voice of Charlie Brown's teacher:

I live in Austin, one of the best cities in America, and because of Google's push on building a fiber network from the ground up here it has forced at&t to step their game up as well. As my neighborhood does not seem to be on the fast track to Google Fiber, my DW and I decided to sign up with AT&T Gigapower this week. We are getting our install on Saturday and will be receiving a proposed 300 Mbps upstream as well as downstream; to be upgraded to 1 Gbps by mid year. With this new found bandwidth, I would like to give back to the community I've been glad to be a part of for the last 10 years. I had a few questions for the mods on how I can be of help.

I have never hosted a home server. I have done server installs, setup, and basic IT work for the servers at our office. I am in the process of flushing our home desktop and installing a clean version of Windows 8. What hardware, software, and or set up would I need?

Also, we will have a terabyte limit on bandwidth, how much bandwidth does hosting the streams average on a monthly basis?

I wasn't sure if this should be a forum post or a PA, but would really like to help out.

I'm just happy that (a) you guys know what this means, and (b) we might have more choices or options for streaming! Yay! And thank you!

[jderoche5]

If it gives us more streams and more music options than I am all for it!

[subsonic]

I wasn't sure if this should be a forum post or a PA, but would really like to help out.

Heya, Please email me about this! It sounds like you have a lot of bandwidth.