Hi Peter,
You wrote: "........but would like some feedback on actual use."
First and foremost let me emphasize that my comments are in no way meant to detract from the excellent post
by Mark Rode and others, but I'd like to shine some light on an aspect of these services which is often not mentioned,
one being actual upload speed and time.
A lot of ISPs may have decent download speeds of 7, 10 ,15Mb/s etc ,but also a lot of them have upload speeds of only 512 kb/s
There are several reasons for that ,but one is to curb illegal file sharing.
By doing this ,they also limit LEGAL file sharing or uploads.
Let's look at the reality of this.
I will spell it out for those not familiar with the terms.
512 Kb/s (Kilo bits per second) translates into 512 /8 = only 64 KB/s (Kilo Bytes per second)
Well here's the problem: In most cases your ISP's advertised speed won't be near the 512Kb/s ,
maybe more like 400 Mb/s , (very often even lower) which works out to 400 / 8 = 50 KB/s > ( x60) = 3000 KB/min = 3 MB/min
So to upload some files totaling 1 GB it would take:
1GB=1000MB /3 = 333 minutes / 60 = 5 ½ hours (forget about the fractions ,they become insignificant at this time)
This time may even be longer if eg you send pictures via an email client or any other upload activity.
In this case speeds are divided between the email client and the upload to the storage server,
so you might be looking at 6 hours for a 1GB upload.
These are not just theoretical figures ,but based on personal experience ,hence it makes little sense for me to use any of them.
Also it requires a solid network connection without glitches ,which often happen with WiFi connections
Nevertheless for those with higher upload speeds it can be a good way to store or share files.
Again ,this wasn't meant to put a negative view on it ,but just some issues to be considered when opting for these kinds of services.
Peter E.
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From: "Peter Shkabara"
Sent: Tuesday, 12 June, 2012 11:30 PM
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: [PCSOFT] dropbox
A friend of my daughter's wanted to share some documents with her and asked
her if she had a dropbox. Not knowing what this was, my daughter asked me.
Although I know the concept of an online dropbox, and even the commercial
website that provides this service, I have no experience with using one.
My question to the group is for recommendations for a free online
file/document sharing site. Free is important since she will not use it
enough to justify a paid option such as dropbox.com I know Google has Google
Drive, and I also pointed my daughter to drop.net, but would like some
feedback on actual use.
Thank you.
Peter Shkabara
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