What's the best way to share my media with my downstairs neighbor?

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FwdMoparJunkie

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I live in an old townhouse that's separated into 3 apartments with a huge basement. I don't mind copying media on a flash drive and letting her borrow it. I just want a better way to basically serve her all of my movies/music by just sitting in my computer chair.

I thought about turning and old pc Into a server or NAS. I prefer a server so, I can take full benefits of it. If I do a server or NAS build, and had my neighbor remotely access it, would my internet speed drop from this? Since it will be configured with my router.

in my mind, it seems like i could just hook up a switch and just run a cat5 cable down to her physical pc. Is this wrong?
 
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If you can just run a cable down it will work very well. It will have no impact on your internet because it is only passing lan-lan. The internet capacity is only used lan-wan. If you have a small switch then it would not even pass the lan-lan ports of the router.

Likely the hard issues is going to be preventing her from using your internet and if she has here own internet connection how you manage to connect both these networks together but still keep the internet separate.
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bill001g

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If you can just run a cable down it will work very well. It will have no impact on your internet because it is only passing lan-lan. The internet capacity is only used lan-wan. If you have a small switch then it would not even pass the lan-lan ports of the router.

Likely the hard issues is going to be preventing her from using your internet and if she has here own internet connection how you manage to connect both these networks together but still keep the internet separate.
 
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A router with WiFi would work fine for a home network, but you will need a strong AC router with multiple antennas to reach to all floors. If she has Windows 7 just setup a homegroup with media sharing turned on and all the files will show up on her PC. It wouldn't slow down your internet speed unless she is playing online multiplayer games.
 
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