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Hilarious article. "there is no need to route through the cloud which can slow things down" wtf, no editorial oversight of tech material at Forbes? The rest is

by opinali 13y ago

Hilarious article. "there is no need to route through the cloud which can slow things down" wtf, no editorial oversight of tech material at Forbes? The rest is shit too.

ishansharma 13y ago
I didn't read the article but my first thoughts on seeing the headline on HN were "Linkbait!... Wait, why is a Forbes article being promoted on HN?" I do not get it nowadays. Such articles from Forbes and other sites are mindlessly promoted over here and they don't follow any HN guidelines! Just there to get traffic and increase page views.
stephengillie 13y ago
When you put a file into a Dropbox-synced folder/directory, Dropbox first syncs the file to their cloud storage in AWS. Once that sync is completed, Dropbox starts to sync to other devices. If you want to sync a large file, you must wait for the cloud sync to complete before it will start to copy it to other devices, which could take longer than copying with a flash drive. I assumed that was the meaning behind the statement you selected.
- sp332 13y ago
  That's true, but there is a special case if both computers are on the same LAN, the Dropbox client software will sync locally which is much faster.
  - pixelcort 13y ago
    Nope, even on LAN you have to wait until the file is on the server before the direct transfer starts.
    - sp332 13y ago
      Huh, never realized. Thanks for the info.
  - pronoiac 13y ago
    I think it has to complete the cloud sync first before it syncs across the local network. It will take advantage of the LAN, but not as immediately as you'd like.
citricsquid 13y ago
This is not a Forbes article, it is an article by a Forbes "contributor" which is a barely-vetted blogger given permission to publish articles.
- goronbjorn 13y ago
  Yep, for more evidence on how little oversight contributors are given: http://www.forbes.com/sites/jonmatonis/2013/05/27/donations/ http://www.forbes.com/sites/jonmatonis/2013/05/27/donations/
veidr 13y ago
Although I didn't read the article, having just assumed it was shit based on the title and publication, "routing through the cloud" does slow things down with Dropbox, often dramatically. I have gigabit fiber at home, and a 100Mbps link at work. BTSync syncs at about 5MB/sec which is close to real world SFTP speeds between those locations. Dropbox sync speeds are on the order of a few hundred KB/sec, and sometimes an abysmal 50KB/sec. That's to the Dropbox cloud, and then it takes even longer to actually sync out from the Dropbox cloud to the other location.

by opinali 13y ago

Hilarious article. "there is no need to route through the cloud which can slow things down" wtf, no editorial oversight of tech material at Forbes? The rest is shit too.

ishansharma 13y ago

I didn't read the article but my first thoughts on seeing the headline on HN were "Linkbait!... Wait, why is a Forbes article being promoted on HN?" I do not get it nowadays. Such articles from Forbes and other sites are mindlessly promoted over here and they don't follow any HN guidelines! Just there to get traffic and increase page views.

stephengillie 13y ago

When you put a file into a Dropbox-synced folder/directory, Dropbox first syncs the file to their cloud storage in AWS. Once that sync is completed, Dropbox starts to sync to other devices. If you want to sync a large file, you must wait for the cloud sync to complete before it will start to copy it to other devices, which could take longer than copying with a flash drive. I assumed that was the meaning behind the statement you selected.

sp332 13y ago
That's true, but there is a special case if both computers are on the same LAN, the Dropbox client software will sync locally which is much faster.
- pixelcort 13y ago
  Nope, even on LAN you have to wait until the file is on the server before the direct transfer starts.
  - sp332 13y ago
    Huh, never realized. Thanks for the info.
- pronoiac 13y ago
  I think it has to complete the cloud sync first before it syncs across the local network. It will take advantage of the LAN, but not as immediately as you'd like.

citricsquid 13y ago

This is not a Forbes article, it is an article by a Forbes "contributor" which is a barely-vetted blogger given permission to publish articles.

goronbjorn 13y ago
Yep, for more evidence on how little oversight contributors are given: http://www.forbes.com/sites/jonmatonis/2013/05/27/donations/ http://www.forbes.com/sites/jonmatonis/2013/05/27/donations/

veidr 13y ago

Although I didn't read the article, having just assumed it was shit based on the title and publication, "routing through the cloud" does slow things down with Dropbox, often dramatically. I have gigabit fiber at home, and a 100Mbps link at work. BTSync syncs at about 5MB/sec which is close to real world SFTP speeds between those locations. Dropbox sync speeds are on the order of a few hundred KB/sec, and sometimes an abysmal 50KB/sec. That's to the Dropbox cloud, and then it takes even longer to actually sync out from the Dropbox cloud to the other location.