Hi Guys
Anyone have any experience with uploading to the cloud easily? Currently have close to 400GB of photos and videos that I want to put on Amazon unlimited. The problem is that I'm on ASDSL1(can't get ASDSL2). Instead of leaving the Laptop on for many weeks,I'm wondering if I can hook up a raspberry Pi to the Router that's connected to a external USB HDD, and let the Pi upload that way? Any ideas or method to make this happen.
ok Thanks Boss!
But that would still slow down your internet. Why don't you just go to a friends house/public wifi/work?
OK will try, dont know anyone with nbn with FTTP, havent thought of public network but i found most are usually throttled? unless i havent been looking at the right public networks. Work is a good idea, but didnt want to leave my laptop there in case of Robbery which has happened in the past, but Scottys idea of trying Sell access to Router might be a good idea
Do you know anyone that works in IT? I'm on the other side of the country unfortunately but I have access to gigabit upload through work and regularly bring in my photos and other bits that I want to back up. Doing it from a home ADSL2+ connection sucks, let alone ADSL1.
There's lots of businesses who are on completely unlimited quota fibre connections (many that sit idle at night too), you just have to see if you can find someone who wouldn't mind doing you a favour and taking a portable HDD to work and uploading it for you.
Public library
You can mail hard drives to Amazon - who then upload it to your account -which will probably be your best option.
Is this the link here? https://aws.amazon.com/importexport/pricing/
have you mailed your HDD to amazon before by any chance?
Do you have any idea how long it will take to upload 400 gigabytes on an ADSL connection?
The maximum UPLOAD speed of ADSL is about 1,000 kilobits per second. Most ADSL users don't even get that.
Let's assume best case scenario.
1,000 kilobits per second = 7.5 Megabytes per minute.
This means you can upload 450 Megabytes per hour or 10,800 Megabytes (10.8 Gigabytes) per day.
So assuming you are uploading 24 x 7, it will take you 37 DAYS to upload 400 Gigbytes.
Of course, you don't want to upload at your maximum speed as it will affect your download speed. Which means it's going to take even longer.
My suggestion would be to find a few friends who have got the NBN and split the uploads between them.
Alternatively, when Diji1 suggested (emailing a hard drive to Amazon) would be the easiest way to do it.
ADSL1 has a maximum f 384kbps, so divide your calculations by 3. Saying that, I can only upload around 10kBps without affecting download too much..
So, realistically, divide it by 10.. a full year to upload without affecting usage (though, you'd schedule it to try max overnight - can be a pain with tablets/mobile phones connected to wifi etc). You'd probably get NBN by the time it's done.. (well.. not really…) So yea, any other option is better :)
thanks Jelko, i figured around 2-3 months. thanks for your calculations, much appreciated.
Rompastompa too, i think i'll have to figure out another way for now
Just go somewhere with fibre maybe? My place has 100/40 fibre and 400gb would only take about a full day, but I'm not in Brisbane.
Thanks everyone for the input much appreciated
If anyone needs to refer this in future lookup Amazon snowball. It is designed to get very large sets of data to the cloud
If you already have a Raspberry Pi, you could connect the HDD to RPi, mount the disk and then upload. If you can gain shell access on your router (running DD-WRT for example) then you probably don't even need the RPi.
Make sure you have QoS done properly on your router though, or just limit the rate of uploading, otherwise the Internet won't be usable while uploading.