Quickest way to upload 500GB

techead

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So I need to upload 500GB into the cloud for a client, and right now I don't have access to the speed required to get it uploaded in the required time frame... 24 hours max

Does anyone have the bandwidth, or know of someone who could do this for me?

I'm based in Cape Town, I'll bring beer and biltong
 
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Where do you want to upload to? A local or international cloud?

To be able to get that done in 24 hours you'd need 50 Mbit/s upload or more, but effective bandwidth to overseas servers is often much less on home internet connections.

A while ago there was a similar thread for someone needing to upload a couple of terabytes worth of research data. IIRC the guys at @websquadza made an offer of assistance, they may be able to help you out as well.
 
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If you are willing to take a drive up to Somerset West, we can connect you to the 200Mb fibre in our offices.
 
techead

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newby_investor said:
Where do you want to upload to? A local or international cloud?

To be able to get that done in 24 hours you'd need 50 Mbit/s upload or more, but effective bandwidth to overseas servers is often much less on home internet connections.

A while ago there was a similar thread for someone needing to upload a couple of terabytes worth of research data. IIRC the guys at @websquadza made an offer of assistance, they may be able to help you out as well.
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hey man

it would be international , Google Drive. Client is moving all data into the cloud and around 500-600GB that needs to be uploaded.

I will reach out to him and see what he says

Thanks a lot
 
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newby_investor said:
Where do you want to upload to? A local or international cloud?

To be able to get that done in 24 hours you'd need 50 Mbit/s upload or more, but effective bandwidth to overseas servers is often much less on home internet connections.

A while ago there was a similar thread for someone needing to upload a couple of terabytes worth of research data. IIRC the guys at @websquadza made an offer of assistance, they may be able to help you out as well.
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@newby_investor Thanks for the mention here! We'd be happy to assist- we're based a little further out in JHB though. So if you can ship us a drive with overnight shipping and we can get the data uploaded nice and quickly.
 
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Rickster said:
Willing to risk making your office internet crawl to a snails pace?
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techead needs upload speed, not download speeed. I'm sure we'll be able to survive on 20Mb upload speed for an hour or two.
 
Iamnotageek

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Why don't you just drive or fly to where the server is and copy it over manually. Copying it manually will go a lot quicker as opposed to uploading it. @techead
 
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