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best way to upload 40Gb...

lotas · 2008-04-20 21:57:40

might be the wrong place to ask this, but here goes... I have about 40Gb of data i need uploaded to Amazon S3 services. at the moment, i am uploading on a 8mb down, 512k up BT line. this is slow, as you can immagine. it have uploaded rougly 650mb in a little over 3 and a half hours. is there a better way of doing this?…

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#32 29-04-2008 2:10am
StickyMcGinty

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for anyone else in the same boat in dublin, DCU have open wifi anywhere on campus with quality upload speeds. i've uploaded 5 or 6 gigs in one sitting before

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#33 29-04-2008 10:52am
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Could this be of any use?

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#34 29-04-2008 1:50pm
mathew

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Trinity might be a nice option!!

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(40 gigabytes) / (68 063 kbps) = 1.36941886 hours

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#35 29-04-2008 2:12pm
lotas

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ohhh.... does Trinity have open Wifi Access? if not, DCU sounds interesting. might do some war driving around and see what i can find! at 68,000k/s, i think you might start hitting problems with the speed of light (http://blogs.smugmug.com/don/2007/03/08/amazon-s3-the-speed-of-light-problem/) and hard drive speeds....

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#36 29-04-2008 10:20pm
mathew

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They dont... you have to be a student... those speeds were achieved in the library connected by LAN, wireless has much lower speeds.

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#37 30-04-2008 12:05am
lotas

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Its grand lads. after driving around the UCD campus for about half an hour, i found a few wireless points, all free... now to find the best spot to work from...

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