Comment Re:Who cares (Score 1) 145
^ The above post is why you should never, ever use the Internet while under the influence of... anything...
^ The above post is why you should never, ever use the Internet while under the influence of... anything...
I have a FIOS 150/150 connection to my home...
The fastest? 500/500...
At that speed?
3TB would take 14 hours to upload, assuming Microsoft could take it that fast.
My monthly bandwidth use, measured by my router, for both up and downstream traffic? About 7TB per month.
Like I've said, I'm a heavy user... not normal at all, but people like me do exist.
None of that is illegal content, maintaining a VPN, running remote desktop, keeping streaming music on, have kids who watch everything via streaming video (we don't have cable or satellite), etc. Also, the multiple backups to multiple cloud providers add to that, it is split about 2/3 download to 1/3 upload.
So it takes a few days to upload my music collection, it will only take a couple minutes to upload new albums individually, and I'll be able to access it all from anywhere.
^ This...
I have to say, until you experience the joy of simply having all your files online for you any time, any where, on any device, you don't know what you're missing.
While you might be right, his words were:
"Luckily I had most of it already local otherwise it would take a long time to download all of my data from the cloud."
He said "most of it"... that is why I replied with my surprise and question...
...so I am forced to remove my data
I don't understand this... you didn't have local copies of everything?
While I have lots stored in the cloud, every single bit of it is local as well.
We are a long way off from where I'd ever consider storing stuff ONLY in the cloud.
1TB ought to be enough for anybody
Ha! Someone had to say it...
That would work too...
I can tell you for 100% certainty that I can upload 10GB files.
If other people cannot, I have no idea why, perhaps open a support ticket?
But I do know the limit is 10GB now. I do hope that limit gets raised, I have 5 files in my OneDrive folder right now that are over 10GB in size, otherwise everything uploaded just fine.
In fairness, I would imagine they reserve the right to throttle heavy users...
That being said... What would you upload? Do you really have 250TB of files to upload? If you just copy and rename the files, don't you think they have a data deduplication system to compensate for that?
"unlimited" always means unlimited up to a point
Well of course... I'm sure they have some terms and conditions that provide them some limits, and they always have the ultimate protection. If you're really a pain, they can offer you a refund and cancel your service. But that is always an option for any service provider, isn't it?
I'm sure they have thought about that, a few people may well upload 5TB, or 10TB... But someone, somewhere, just to be a pain, will try uploading 500TB... They'll probably cut that user off at some point, or throttle them...
Look at Carbonite... They offer "unlimited" backup, but if you read the fine print, after various datapoints they throttle. That is why I no longer use them, I switched to Crashplan and Backblaze, who don't throttle (as much, I'm not convinced they don't to some extent).
I was thinking of that when I was typing it up...
DropBox was our first "cloud" service, mostly because it came with our Galaxy III phones and included 50GB of "bonus" space with the phones. Boy, that was a lot at the time.
We still have that space and keep some files there, but we moved on to Google Drive last year and then this past summer, to OneDrive when the 1TB offer came out.
We were still on Office 2010 at the time and I was going to skip 2013, but for $100 a year, I get a complete copy of Office 2013 including Publisher (which I didn't have for 2010, I was using a 2007 copy), and 1TB per user for 5 users.
That was a crazy good deal, so we did that, and now it is unlimited.
The client is fine... Still not great, but my hope is that they figure out that the client does matter and they work to improve it.
Where I live, yes, I get those speeds all the time.
We are fairly heavy users of the Internet. Between watching streaming shows on Amazon Instant Video, downloading games and apps on the PS3 and iPads, Steam games on the computer, Skype to video chat with family overseas, it works very well all the time.
I also use 6 different cloud services. For simple storage, iCloud, DropBox, Google Drive, and OneDrive. For backup, I use both Crashplan and Backblaze to backup all our computers in the house. I work from home, so I also VPN and remote desktop every day.
With 5 to 7 people using the Internet at the same time, both uploads and downloads, it works perfectly 99% of the time.
That is one reason why I pay extra for the 150/150 plan, gives me 18 megabytes up and down, and I really do see the full speed. It used to be 150 down, 65 up, but they just gave us a free upgrade to 150/150 this month, no complaints...
Other than perhaps the cost, but it is what it is... $105 a month for that speed...
It was SkyDrive, until they had to rename it due to a lawsuit from British broadcaster BSkyB
But seriously, it'll be "unlimited" until disk space becomes an issue. Which is to say, it's unlimited until it isn't.
Fair point... Of course, with 8TB and 10TB drives starting to ship and larger tape solutions coming online, it is quite possible that the storage they can hold will continue to grow as fast, if not faster, than the demand.
Will people upload tons right away? Sure... but I don't think it will keep up from the initial surge, after all, does the average user really produce that much original content?
Home movies are probably the single largest source of "original content" and honestly the past 6 years of HD home video for us is only about half a TB. It is growing at maybe 100GB a year.
As for other "downloaded" content as you put it, don't you think that Microsoft is not just doing a "store once, mark for all" system, where they note that the same large files are being backed up by 10,000 users. They store a single copy and just put a pointer to that copy for everyone.
While that is a fair point... Those speeds will increase over time.
Just this month, Verizon FIOS upgraded our service with what they call "SpeedMatch":
http://campaign.verizon.com/fa...
So if you have 35 megabits down, now you have 35 megabits up. 75 down, 75 up, etc...
Granted, not everyone has FIOS, or can get it, but it may well provide pressure to others (Comcast we're looking at you) to match it.
Where there's a will, there's a relative.