Anything that involves relying on broadband is an absolute and total no-no
round here. Trust me, you'd have to live here to know what it's like. You'd
only have to listen to Rich explain about my experiences with our shared
Dropbox to know that cloud services are best left untouched around here,
despite the Welsh government spending millions (supposedly!) on trying to
bring broadband speeds into line with England. I know we are not alone in
this, rural areas in England often do no better than here, but I refuse
totally to commit to anything that relies on our
sometimes-slower-than-dialup or "it doesn't work if more than one person in
the same street uses it" cr*p services.
My son (who's in college) moved from a town centre to the outskirts recently
and experienced a four-fold drop in quoted maximum broadband speed (which
was already a bit pathetic originally as he lived close to his exchange)
with no reduction in cost, the real speed drop seems to be subjectively much
more than that. He relies on it for his online gaming and so on and moans a
lot about how unusable it is now! (at least it works well enough for his
college work I suppose).
Dilwyn
-----Original Message-----
From: Graeme Gregory
Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2014 4:41 PM
To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com
Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] PC issues
On Thu, Oct 09, 2014 at 04:09:24PM +0100, Dilwyn Jones wrote:
Backups - don't make me laugh. Windows backup won't work with 3TB drives,
NTIbackup seems to fail 2 days out of 7 regularly. I have no idea how
complete the backup is because of that and whether it catches up on the
weekend missed bits during the week.
For backups I use CrashPlan, although its aimed at you paying them to
store your backups it actually supports backing up to another machine or
HD as well.
For me its been running invisibly in the background for almost a year.
Graeme
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