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The big client issue for me is the bandwidth usage. Google Drive has no intelligent throttling, so it consumes your entire upload pipe, which makes other apps
by zacwest 13y ago
The big client issue for me is the bandwidth usage.
Google Drive has no intelligent throttling, so it consumes your entire upload pipe, which makes other apps unusable. This is not really what I want a background service to do.
- derefr 13y agoI actually get annoyed when Dropbox doesn't consume my entire upload pipe. 90% of what I use Dropbox for is stuffing files in my Public folder and getting a URL from them, and that's a synchronous action--I can't do anything until I have the URL. So it should use all the bandwidth it can.
- dperfect 13y agoI think the point is that it should be user-configurable. Most of the competitors' desktop clients (including Dropbox) have a setting for that, so you can choose what suits your needs.
- dperfect 13y agoI agree. Due to the lack of throttling, I had to write a script that paused Google Drive any time I was using the computer - just to have network and CPU resources to do simple things like browse the web (and this was on a fairly recent, fast machine). I tried to make it work... I really did.