Posted: 11/10/2015 9:58:47 PM EDT
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So the wife decided it would be a good idea to store her jillion gigabytes of potato-phone pics on MS OneDrive. The first time she "synced" it (or whatever the hell you call it) it took about a week for everything to sync up.
Last week her OneDrive automagically deleted all her stuff off her hard drive, and now it's trying to sync everything back. This all started after she got that free upgrade to Win10 or whatever the fuck it is. And it's eating up 110% of our bandwidth. Understand, we have a 1.5 Mbit T1 connection. And she's doing this over wifi. First, I can't seem to convince her that storing all her pictures in the "cloud" is a particularly good idea. "Backup!" she says. Portable hard drive! I reply. Hell, they're just about giving zillion MB hard drives away in cereal boxes these days, so get two! Now my ass is in the doghouse because every time the net slows to a crawl I ask her if that damn OneDrive is doing it's thing. Latest (20 minutes ago) I went upstairs to look and she's all "Fine! I'll just turn it off!!" So why the fuck am I the bad guy when her OneDrive slimeshit is making it impossible for anyone else to do ANYTHING involving a network connection? Help me, o ArfCom Lords of all things silicon, to fix this shit! I'm fairly tech savvy, but I'm running Win7 and DO NOT believe in this stupid Cloud Storage phenomenon. |
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1) More backups, the better. Cloud, flash, external hd, dvd, cd and paper.
2) Can you let it sync the 20 hours a day you don't want to use the net? 3) Happy wife, happy life. 4) OneDrive is cancelling their "unlimited" storage, and going to start charging for space. Find out what it's going to cost you, soon, before they drop her storage space and all them lovely images go *poof*. 5) This isn't GD, but you did use the 'wife' word. I'm just saying...  
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I don't like the idea of Syncing photos in the cloud. I have no problem backing them up there manually, but the problem with syncing is if something happens to either copy (local or cloud), accidentally deleted or something like that, you lose both copies.
You should have a local backup for photos and then every week manually backup the photos to the cloud. And do it at night. 
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Problem is, you allowed her to have a device that is backing up off site to begin with.
Bluntly, you post in this forum, and have not just installed a NAS with hard drive at the house for storage, and made sure that all her devices where backing up to it, instead of dumping off site instead. Note, it when you don't back up the Nas hard drive, it crashes and you do have a back up for it, that she gets to nail you to cross then instead. |
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Problem is, you allowed her to have a device that is backing up off site to begin with. Bluntly, you post in this forum, and have not just installed a NAS with hard drive at the house for storage, and made sure that all her devices where backing up to it, instead of dumping off site instead. Note, it when you don't back up the Nas hard drive, it crashes and you do have a back up for it, that she gets to nail you to cross then instead. Yes off-site backup is such a terrible idea. Everything should be backed up on-site because that way in the event of a fire or other unforeseen disaster you will have no hope of recovering it. 
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Why do you have a T1 at home? Because I live in the sticks, need a stable and adequately fast connection for work, and cell, satellite, DSL, fiber, etc. are ether not available, don't have sufficient bandwidth, or don't have enough capacity. Company pays for MOST of the cost; our out-of-pocket is about what you might pay for a cable connection. |
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Because I live in the sticks, need a stable and adequately fast connection for work, and cell, satellite, DSL, fiber, etc. are ether not available, don't have sufficient bandwidth, or don't have enough capacity. Company pays for MOST of the cost; our out-of-pocket is about what you might pay for a cable connection. Quoted:
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Why do you have a T1 at home? Because I live in the sticks, need a stable and adequately fast connection for work, and cell, satellite, DSL, fiber, etc. are ether not available, don't have sufficient bandwidth, or don't have enough capacity. Company pays for MOST of the cost; our out-of-pocket is about what you might pay for a cable connection. So get a few more T1s and bond them. |
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Why do you have a T1 at home? Because I live in the sticks, need a stable and adequately fast connection for work, and cell, satellite, DSL, fiber, etc. are ether not available, don't have sufficient bandwidth, or don't have enough capacity. Company pays for MOST of the cost; our out-of-pocket is about what you might pay for a cable connection. So get a few more T1s and bond them. $$$$$ 
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Why do you have a T1 at home? Because I live in the sticks, need a stable and adequately fast connection for work, and cell, satellite, DSL, fiber, etc. are ether not available, don't have sufficient bandwidth, or don't have enough capacity. Company pays for MOST of the cost; our out-of-pocket is about what you might pay for a cable connection. So get a few more T1s and bond them. $$$$$ Welcome to wanting good Internet in the middle of no where. Honestly, on a T1 he would be much wiser investing in something that does Layer 7 shaping. |
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Why do you have a T1 at home? Because I live in the sticks, need a stable and adequately fast connection for work, and cell, satellite, DSL, fiber, etc. are ether not available, don't have sufficient bandwidth, or don't have enough capacity. Company pays for MOST of the cost; our out-of-pocket is about what you might pay for a cable connection. So get a few more T1s and bond them. Oh yeah, they've tried to upsell me on a T3. |
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Why do you have a T1 at home? Because I live in the sticks, need a stable and adequately fast connection for work, and cell, satellite, DSL, fiber, etc. are ether not available, don't have sufficient bandwidth, or don't have enough capacity. Company pays for MOST of the cost; our out-of-pocket is about what you might pay for a cable connection. So get a few more T1s and bond them. Oh yeah, they've tried to upsell me on a T3. 44Mbps, I'd go for it. |
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Why do you have a T1 at home? Because I live in the sticks, need a stable and adequately fast connection for work, and cell, satellite, DSL, fiber, etc. are ether not available, don't have sufficient bandwidth, or don't have enough capacity. Company pays for MOST of the cost; our out-of-pocket is about what you might pay for a cable connection. So get a few more T1s and bond them. $$$$$ Welcome to wanting good Internet in the middle of no where. Honestly, on a T1 he would be much wiser investing in something that does Layer 7 shaping. Oh yeah, internet is expensive. I remember back in the days of bonded ISDN lines. |