My bud and I were wanting to set up a file sharing system with each other. We both have a fiber line on a public ISP that we will be using. My first thought is to simply set up an FTP server but I have had mixed results with that in the past. I have found that FTP servers tend to be slow for some reason but maybe thats because the connections have always been slow or the computer was slow. We would be looking for simple protection like a username/password only so no encryption would be needed. Would an ftp server be the best thing or would something like a VPN be better? For some reason I cant figure out what would be the best solution here. I'm sure if someone gave me some ideas I could figure out how to set it up.