UK people need some advice travel/computer related

[joeblow]

HI

My wife is going to be in London for about 10 days. She takes photos and they can be a bit large. She thinks that she may be able to take 30 gigs of photos a day.

Our problem is transferring those photos online or to some storage like Dropbox quickly and easily.

Is there some kinda of service that she can use will there to handle this daily? That's my suggestion.

She is considering buying about 10 large USB thumb drives for the trip. Her suggestion.

I think so far she just wants to carry and Ipad and her camera and not take her laptop (PC)

Thanks for the help.

[Pegasus]

Hey Joe. While I've never used an iPad so as to be able to vouch for each online hosting service offering a solution for that specific platform myself, it wouldn't hurt to "shop around" while you have the time and see which among Microsoft's OneDrive, Google's Drive, or the free accounts offered by MediaFire, Carbonite and DropBox provides the largest storage - along with Apple's own iCloud solution. Assuming, of course, you're willing to overlook whatever privacy, long(er)term availability and possibly ownership issues might arise through imposed terms from all those "cloud" services' EULAs. As regards free accounts and max storage capacity now, the most recent news I've read about that involved MediaFire upping their free accounts' offering to 10GB earlier this month (article talks about 50GB, but MF clearly shows 10GB when attempting to create a free acct) which, presumably, puts 'em in a better position to compete with Google. Since I seriously doubt any similar cloud host would care to offer anything considerably more sizable for free, the best course of action might involve creating accounts on multiple such services and filling each of 'em up at the end of every vacation day on one end, while downloading everything on the other; well, that or paying for a yearly subscription that in most of 'em would net you a cool(er) 50GB storage space.

Whatever service you might pick, two requirements remain the same: access to a reliably fast connection and quite some time spent uploading each evening, both necessities your wife could easily avoid if she'd opt for any kinda small n' cheap laptop/netbook with a ~300GB drive. Also, 30GB per day on photos does seem a tad excessive .

Anyway, hope that helped, and let us know how well any choice you went with worked for you when it's all said and done.

[elect]

HI

My wife is going to be in London for about 10 days. She takes photos and they can be a bit large. She thinks that she may be able to take 30 gigs of photos a day.

Our problem is transferring those photos online or to some storage like Dropbox quickly and easily.

Is there some kinda of service that she can use will there to handle this daily? That's my suggestion.

She is considering buying about 10 large USB thumb drives for the trip. Her suggestion.

I think so far she just wants to carry and Ipad and her camera and not take her laptop (PC)

Thanks for the help.

She uses the raw format, doesnt she?

However I agree with peg, a cheap device with a large external hd is the best option.

Forget to upload 30gb/day

[joeblow]

Yes her camera shoots raw and .jpeg so each photo is large and since this is a special trip for here there will be a lot of photos and effects etc.

I think what she is worried about is the upload speed. In this country household upload speeds are very slow(small). Like our internet is 5 meg download but 750 k upload.

She has a 1t external drive she uses with here laptop. She might have to buy a new one and take it with her.

Maybe an internet cafe would have a service?

[elect]

Yes her camera shoots raw and .jpeg so each photo is large and since this is a special trip for here there will be a lot of photos and effects etc.

I think what she is worried about is the upload speed. In this country household upload speeds are very slow(small). Like our internet is 5 meg download but 750 k upload.

She has a 1t external drive she uses with here laptop. She might have to buy a new one and take it with her.

Maybe an internet cafe would have a service?

Look, even if an internet cafe would have 10Mb in upload, then she will need

30 * GB / (10 Mb / 8) =

= 30 * 10^3 MB / 1,25 MB =

= 24 * 10^3 s = 6,66 h per day..

I guess hd is da way

[salko]

We using ownCloud on own server. Service like Dropbox, but without limitations

[Xac]

Be a bit careful what you photograph in London...especially if you take lots of pictures of buildings. For example:

http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2010/feb/ ... ror-arrest

This sort of harassment by the police in London has happened to quite a few people.

[joeblow]

http://www.hypershop.com/HyperDrive/HDU2-000.html

looking at this.

[Dalyup!]

To be realistic she's probably going to have to buy a HDD, but could she not compress them before sending them over? Might make things a bit faster.

[joeblow]

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