6/13/2023 0 Comments Wuala widget![]() ![]() There are also potential legal ramifications to sharing, which I’ll describe in a bit. This makes it very important that you properly manage Wuala’s bandwidth limiters, especially in Canada where many providers have been forced by Bell to drop their bandwidth caps to 25 GB per month. Trading also gets interesting as ISPs continue to try to impose harsher bandwidth caps. Overall, for those of us with home file servers that have unused space, this might be a great way to get cloud storage for fairly cheap. Wuala will not immediately delete your files however, and you have the opportunity to contact them and inform them of the downtime. You will probably lose most, if not all of your traded storage. Say you go on vacation and shut down your computer(s) for a few weeks. Since you have to be online a certain amount of time, there are ramifications if you go offline. You can trade as little or as much as you like, but are limited to a maximum of 100GB per computer. Trading presents an interesting option for many users. Trading requires your computer be available at least four hours a day. The exact amount of storage is determined by how often your computer is accessible (meaning Wuala’s client is running and online). By allocating storage on your local machine, you get up to that much storage on Wuala’s cloud. Sure enough, it’s basically Buddy Backup with a twist. I had a strange feeling of déjà vu here. The other way to “Go Pro†is through “trading†storage. Free and paid accounts get access to all features including Automatic Sync, File Revisions and Backup There’s also a feature called “Time Travel†that is unexplained on the main site. , which do not get Automatic Sync, File Revisions, or Backup. Everyone starts off with a 1 GB Free Account. Wuala offers some interesting account concepts. However, the team from Zurich appears to have been mostly left intact, so Wuala works fairly flawlessly. And SmallNetBuilder readers know that LaCie NAS products can be hit or miss. My experience with storage providers providing online storage has been a little rough, to say the least. I was originally a little dubious of Wuala. Since it’s Java-based, Wuala is cross platform with equal Windows, Mac, and Linux support. But now offers itself as both web and stand alone apps. It was originally designed to run in a web browser as a Java applet. Wuala got its start as a project by a group of students at Switzerland’s Swiss Federal Institue of Technology. Wuala came from a merger between LaCie and Wuala’s creator, Caleido AG. Wuala is LaCie’s entry in the cloud backup and storage markets. ![]() Updated 3/16/10: Wuala has added an iPhone application so your files can now be accessed remotely. So all in all, I think it's worth to look at, even if I have to agree that the interface could be improved and dropbox is a lot simpler.Updated 10/20/11: Feature updates. And then, many LaCie Harddiscs offer promotion codes which give you free extra storage. Besides Syncing, Wuala also offers the possibility to backup folders. Their servers are in switzerland and france, so they are not under the us "patriot act", which is important especially in europa, because basically it is illegal to put any privat data from other people (clients, friends.) on a server where the US government could spy at if they like in most european countries.Īlso, you can sync any folder you like at any location, not only a Dropbox folder. Wuala claims they could not decrypt, well, there is no proof this is true but it should be safer than Dropbox. Wuala encrypts on the client, and Wuala has no key - so it's a lot safer. I agree that Dropbox is easier to use, but Data is only encrypted on Dropbox Servers and Dropbox has the key, so they can decrypt it if they like. To "sync", just press on "New", choose Sync and choose a Wuala and a Local Folder to sync. I have to admit I never looked in the manual. ![]() I have to offset "normbs" 1/2 star rating a little. ![]()
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