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    Interesting things to do with 175 Mbps of upload speed?

    Discussion in 'Networking and Wireless' started by Peon, Jul 30, 2017.

  1. Peon

    Peon Notebook Virtuoso

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    I've been on a 175/175 connection for almost a year now, but like most home users, I rarely use the upload portion.
     
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    downloads No, Dee Dee, no! Super Moderator

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    It comes in handy if you want to maintain an offsite backup. 175mbps is roughly 22MB/s which is quite a decent speed - only somewhat slower than USB 2 HDD would be, so if you wanted to keep an offsite backup that wouldn't be very annoying.

    Personally I would not trust my data to any cloud service of hosting provider but keeping an encrypted VeraCrypt container and backing up to that container would be safe and with your connection quite quick.
     
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    Peon Notebook Virtuoso

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    I did think of the possibility, but like you I have... trust issues... with cloud backup services. And based on my research, most of the more affordable paid services work not on a Dropbox/Google Drive upload your files basis, but on a more (ironically) traditional "install software which trawls your computer" basis, which precludes uploading an encrypted blob.

    Do you have any recommendations?
     
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    You could run your own cloud. Like owncloud or nextcloud. That is my long term plan anyways.
     
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