{"id":511,"date":"2011-01-26T02:59:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-26T02:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2011\/01\/like-watching-paint-dry.html"},"modified":"2011-01-26T02:59:00","modified_gmt":"2011-01-26T02:59:00","slug":"like-watching-paint-dry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2011\/01\/like-watching-paint-dry.html","title":{"rendered":"Like Watching Paint Dry"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Paul and I have gone nearly a week uploading to each others’ computers with CrashPlan.<\/a>  It’s been quite successful, in that we are successfully connecting to each others’ computers consistently.  That’s the good news.<\/p>\n

The bad news is that I’m seeing just how slow my AT&T DSL network<\/a> is.  I purposefully selected a data plan that matches what we’d need it for the most — which did not include extreme gaming or running a small business.  Something middle-of-the-road.<\/p>\n

With his FiOS<\/a> network on the East Coast, Paul has already uploaded all his data (nearly 100 GB) to “the cloud”, while I’m less than 10% through.  No fiber availability in my area, unfortunately.<\/p>\n

Paul’s upload rate to my own machine is more than twice as fast as my upload to him.<\/p>\n

At my house, we’re also challenged with trying to do other things on our network while CrashPlan is active, like uploading pictures and videos.  I have to shut down the data transfer if we’re doing particularly important work.<\/p>\n

Ever the optimist, I really want to see this through – I wholeheartedly believe that once the initial transfers occur, you can leave Crashplan on and it does periodic updates only…requiring much less bandwidth.<\/p>\n

Fingers crossed!<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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