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#154021 15-Oct-2014 17:01

If I have say 25 Mbps down and 3 up, if I am using the 'up' part does that still leave me with 22 down or not? Or is it 'up or down but not really both at once'?

My system is immensely slow if I am using the up part to back up my machine etc and it shreds call quality on the Suresignal too.

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#1155568 15-Oct-2014 17:06

Technically you still have 25Mbps down... but if your upload is saturated many things will turn unusable. To use any of the down bandwidth you still have to send requests in the other direction. Best to throttle your backups if you backup software allows it.

EDIT: BTW, what type of connection do you have? 3 up sounds like an odd number for an NZ connection?

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#1155571 15-Oct-2014 17:16

VDSL

I can throttle it - so far it has taken since May to back up my machine and drives and still has 524,000 Mb to go....!!

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#1155572 15-Oct-2014 17:23

Geektastic: VDSL

I can throttle it - so far it has taken since May to back up my machine and drives and still has 524,000 Mb to go....!!

You have been backing up data since May?

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#1155574 15-Oct-2014 17:28

This is why online backups of large volumes of data aren't very practical from NZ yet.

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#1155579 15-Oct-2014 17:34

johnr:
Geektastic: VDSL

I can throttle it - so far it has taken since May to back up my machine and drives and still has 524,000 Mb to go....!!

You have been backing up data since May?

Yep.

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#1155588 15-Oct-2014 17:55

Geektastic:
johnr:
Geektastic: VDSL

I can throttle it - so far it has taken since May to back up my machine and drives and still has 524,000 Mb to go....!!

You have been backing up data since May?

Yep.

Can I ask what and why?

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#1155595 15-Oct-2014 18:04

johnr:
Geektastic:
johnr:
Geektastic: VDSL

I can throttle it - so far it has taken since May to back up my machine and drives and still has 524,000 Mb to go....!!

You have been backing up data since May?

Yep.

Can I ask what and why?

Offsite backup of 1 iMac and 2 attached drives containing my image libraries.

588,310 files totalling 2,366,664 MB according to the backup software (Backblaze).

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#1155597 15-Oct-2014 18:08

Can you courier them data, or borrow a fast connection to get the bulk of it synced? I'd say 5 months of syncing is a bit too long.

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#1155598 15-Oct-2014 18:12

ubergeeknz: Can you courier them data, or borrow a fast connection to get the bulk of it synced? I'd say 5 months of syncing is a bit too long.

Well, I don't know how to borrow a connection! The rural parts of the South Wairarapa are not overly blessed with fibre to the door...! We count ourselves fortunate to have VDSL.

I suppose I could courier the stuff but the servers I am backing up to are in the USA so that wouldn't be especially cheap.

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#1155605 15-Oct-2014 18:38

avoiding the whole wow your backing up alot comments..

Yes you still have that 25mbit there, however you need to remember with TCP (which most non realtime services use) you need to send ACKs back after your packets to say, Hey i got that data! send me more!

if your upstream is congested, the packets have to fight to get out there. Ontop of that, if your latency is tanking because of it, then the round trip for the ACKs to get there will take a little extra time, thus slowing things down even more.

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#1155606 15-Oct-2014 18:38

johnr:
Geektastic: VDSL

I can throttle it - so far it has taken since May to back up my machine and drives and still has 524,000 Mb to go....!!

You have been backing up data since May?

off topic sorta
I know some folks who are on ADSL and have spent almost 7 months backing up an entire 500GB HDD.

What a shame the drive died before the back up was completed.
As previously stated from someone else, back ups in NZ aren't exactly practical unless you have at least 1MB/s up to lessen the time spent on uploading all day.

You can also follow me on twitter here @kiwifortw I do twitch streams every now and then at twitch.tv/kiwiforthewin :)

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#1155609 15-Oct-2014 18:46

It will be fine if it ever gets to the end!!

I use the same system on my Macbook Air as I travel a lot with that and it ensures that if it gets lost/stolen/sat on by an elephant I can buy a new one and have it restored. Of course the Air is very small in comparison so the time is much less.

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#1155612 15-Oct-2014 18:55

I uploaded 8GB of data (to Google Drive) on my VDSL and it took 3-4 hours. I just started it overnight and left it, and it was all done the next morning.

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#1155625 15-Oct-2014 19:19

quickymart: I uploaded 8GB of data (to Google Drive) on my VDSL and it took 3-4 hours. I just started it overnight and left it, and it was all done the next morning.

That's not 2.5 Tb though....!

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#1155626 15-Oct-2014 19:20

Geektastic:
quickymart: I uploaded 8GB of data (to Google Drive) on my VDSL and it took 3-4 hours. I just started it overnight and left it, and it was all done the next morning.

That's not 2.5 Tb though....!

Yeah good luck with that.

You can also follow me on twitter here @kiwifortw I do twitch streams every now and then at twitch.tv/kiwiforthewin :)

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