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Graham Harrison - 03 Sep 2006 09:34 GMT

I'm planning a 3 month road trip. I'll be carrying a laptop and I'm
debating whether it might be sensible to organise a method of off loading
photos from the laptop to "somwhere on the web". I've been looking at
Flickr and the like and also the less photo oriented online backup sites.

Does anyone have any experiences/suggestions.

PS, I'm in the UK. The trip is likely to take me to countries in South
America, Oceania and the Far East. If I retain the account on an ongoing
basis I'll also be visiting North America and Europe pretty regularly.

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Derek Fountain - 03 Sep 2006 10:09 GMT

> I'm planning a 3 month road trip. I'll be carrying a laptop and I'm
> debating whether it might be sensible to organise a method of off loading
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> America, Oceania and the Far East. If I retain the account on an ongoing
> basis I'll also be visiting North America and Europe pretty regularly.

Generally this isn't a practical idea. Photos are big chunks of data.
The issue isn't finding somewhere to store them, it's finding somewhere
that has the uplink speed to transmit them. The vast majority of
"internet cafe" type places have fast downstream speed, but a very slow
uplink. Given a few dozen multi-megabyte images, you'll be sat there for
literally hours waiting for them to upload to their storage place.

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Adrian Boliston - 03 Sep 2006 11:47 GMT

I'd do regular backups to dvd, and keep one copy and mail the other home.
If you are shooting raw you can easily fill a 2GB card in a couple of hours
of casual shooting, so I would not even like to *think* about trying to
upload over the net!

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Graham Harrison - 03 Sep 2006 16:20 GMT

>> I'm planning a 3 month road trip. I'll be carrying a laptop and I'm
>> debating whether it might be sensible to organise a method of off loading
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> hours of casual shooting, so I would not even like to *think* about trying
> to upload over the net!

I had wondered whether those limitations were such as to make the idea
impractical. But, assume, for one moment, that I *can* find a reasonable
uplink speed how much difference would that make? I am employed by a
company that has offices in each of the places I would need to upload from
or I would consider spending an odd night in an hotel with the necessary
facilities.

I had thought about burning CD/DVDs and sending one home so it's nice to
have that idea confirmed as feasible.

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Nobody - 03 Sep 2006 17:51 GMT

> I am employed by a
>company that has offices in each of the places I would need to upload from
>or I would consider spending an odd night in an hotel with the necessary
>facilities.

Does the commpanu have its own high-speed network? If so, see if it
will alocate you some space on a home server and upload from each
office. However, the simplest way would appear to be the CD/DVD keep
one post one suggestion.

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Tomislav Filipčić - 03 Sep 2006 18:21 GMT

> I'm planning a 3 month road trip. I'll be carrying a laptop and I'm
> debating whether it might be sensible to organise a method of off
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>
> Does anyone have any experiences/suggestions.

http://www.jungledisk.com/

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Graham Harrison - 03 Sep 2006 22:09 GMT

>> I'm planning a 3 month road trip. I'll be carrying a laptop and I'm
>> debating whether it might be sensible to organise a method of off loading
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> http://www.jungledisk.com/

What an interesting idea! I have to admit it seemed too simple at first
but once I had found it on the Amazon web site I became convinced it was
legitimate and I've signed up and loaded one picture, as a test for all of
USD0.01! Tomorrow I'll see if I can download it onto a different computer.

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Ben Brugman - 04 Sep 2006 21:53 GMT

First thought how cheap.

Then it's a service, and you have to pay for the
service. It's a monthly rate, with limited
upload/download bandwith. If the upload download
bandwith is in total (monthly transfer), I gues you
would need at least 2 GB to upload during your
roadtrip and then to download you would need
another three month's to download it all.
(That would come to 6 times $40.80 = $244.80)
You can buy a nice (Lacie porche design)
usb harddisk for that money,
or buy other solutions for that kind of money.

ben

>>> I'm planning a 3 month road trip. I'll be carrying a laptop and I'm
>>> debating whether it might be sensible to organise a method of off
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> USD0.01! Tomorrow I'll see if I can download it onto a different
> computer.

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