How fast is Ubuntu One?

[ki4jgt]

I may upgrade after all. I found a flash drive to use with my netbook. I only have the problem of 4 gigs of mp3 files to deal with. :-( How fast is Ubuntuone at uploading these files? Is there a cap? Also, with upgrading being so hectic right now, will they even be able to upload?

[lovinglinux]

I am having problems with upload right now as well. I am not sure if this problem is exclusive to 11.10.

EDIT: I moved all my files to a normal folder and I am moving them back to Ubuntu One folder, one by one, waiting each file to upload. Seems to be working now.

[sffvba[e0rt]

I may upgrade after all. I found a flash drive to use with my netbook. I only have the problem of 4 gigs of mp3 files to deal with. :-( How fast is Ubuntuone at uploading these files? Is there a cap? Also, with upgrading being so hectic right now, will they even be able to upload?

Well, Ubuntu One is normally pretty fast and your cap is 5GB with the free account...


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[ki4jgt]

I am having problems with upload right now as well. I am not sure if this problem is exclusive to 11.10.

EDIT: I moved all my files to a normal folder and I am moving them back to Ubuntu One folder, one by one, waiting each file to upload. Seems to be working now.

Mine's not that slow (54 KB/s). I have plenty of bandwidth to do what I need to do with my files. I just haven't used cloud based services before. I keep expecting it to be like some web hosting site that cuts your site off after you reach a certain bandwidth. Especially since it's free and I have 2.5 gigs of data.

Anyway, I did the math last night when I started uploading. I had 17 hours to wait then (If my math was correct on 40 KB/s). I guess it's time to go for a nice jog :-)

EDIT: It's nice to know you can have 5 gigs of data with no caps. Thanks Ubuntu. :-)

[BeRoot ReBoot]

I've had consistently bad experience with ubuntu one. Files randomly not syncing. The sync daemon taking several minutes to start. Uploading and downloading proceeding at a snail's pace after that. (I have a 20/20 Mbit/s connection). It's back to Dropbox for me.

[galacticaboy]

I have had no problems with Ubuntu One. Although, on pre 11.04 such as 10.04 and 10.10 it was quite slow, but on 11.04 and 11.10 I found it to be pleasantly fast.

[krapp]

On 11.04 I find Ubuntu One mindbendingly slow. Actually, I have no idea what it's really ever doing, which might be its greatest flaw, and the local (desktop) statuses usually don't match the one.ubuntu.com account status. It's a nice service, and a wonderful way to share files, but the protocol seems to be very lacking.

[ki4jgt]

Well, it's said my cloud was at 385 for the last 3 or 4 hours and I really need my music backed up. The laptop's data transfer light hasn't stopped blinking since I started the service but the reported data size in the service has stayed the same :-( Are there any other services which offer 5 gigs for free storage?

[krapp]

I don't think so, which is why it's so useful for Ubuntu users: it's already installed! I just think of it as a poor man's more bountiful Dropbox.

Only if there was a way to monitor transfer status. I've seen a progress bar overlaid occasionally on the taskbar icon, but it's very cryptic.

[keithpeter]

Hello ki4jgt

My netbook has an SD card slot. If yours has, any chance of borrowing a 4 or 8 GB SD card from a local photographer/friend/relative?

Cloud only backup just seems so risky to me...

[ki4jgt]

Hello ki4jgt

My netbook has an SD card slot. If yours has, any chance of borrowing a 4 or 8 GB SD card from a local photographer/friend/relative?

Cloud only backup just seems so risky to me...

That's why I've avoided it for the last 4 years. :-( Unfortunately, I was the one lending out all my storage mediums this time. No one has bothered to return them over the past year and now I'm stuck with nothing except this 5 gig storage onine :-(. I already don't like the fact that I'm uploading all my files over PUBLIC wifi, but UOne says they're encrypted from computer to cloud so, that's a little better to know :-( but not much.