On Mon, 04 May 2015 05:40:25 -0500, Dale wrote:

> > You only need to upload it once, so it doesn't really matter how long
> > it takes. After that you do incremental backups. I use
> > app-backup/duplicity which not only takes care of incremental backups
> > and communicating with S3, but also encrypts everything with GPG. No
> > one would know you were uploading goat porn :)

> It may be only once but it would be a very large once plus I'm on my
> puter a lot. 

You have to sleep some time, your computer doesn't :)

> Uploading slows my surfing to almost a dead stop.  Newegg
> is a nightmare for me to surf on.  Slowest thing I ever seen. Newegg
> isn't alone tho.

As long as you restrict the upload speed to around 80-80% of your
available upstream bandwidth, it shouldn't affect downloading
significantly. It's when you saturate the upstream that your downloads
are affected.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

Computer apathy error: don't bother striking any key.

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