Any Solutions for uploading files to cloud storage(e.g Google drive) and such, for people in countries with very slow upload speeds?
2026-03-08 03:58 UTC
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@Auster@thebrainbin.org 2026-03-08 04:05
uploading from a phone if it stays on all the time uploading one at a time, uploading in smaller batches uploading from an internet café, a library or some other place if it has internet faster than yours hire a VPS, use some transfer method with a more generous timeout tolerance to transfer the files uncompressed, and from there leave the ebooks uploading with your preferred method
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@just_another_person@lemmy.world 2026-03-08 04:14
Sounds like you need a client that does “multiparty uploads”. Meaning interruptions should continue if there is a break in comms. All the Cloud endpoints support this, you just need a better client. Do some research I guess.
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@Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 2026-03-08 04:21
Where will you be using this upload? If you’re doing it to make it accessible on your own devices from anywhere, try Syncthing on the various devices instead. If the devices are on the same LAN from time to time, your modem won’t be a bottleneck. If you still have the sources from which you originally acquired the books, you could use a VPS to re-acquire them, and then push them to the google drive directly from the VPS. They never pass through your modem; your modem can’t be the bottleneck.
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@solrize@lemmy.ml 2026-03-08 05:21
It’s gonna take a long time, just deal with it. 12 hours is expected, right? Get some sleep and check it afterwards.
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@TheTechyHobbit@sh.itjust.works 2026-03-08 07:20
Have you considered a torrent based solution? Setup a torrenting server hosted online somewhere with fast speeds (e.g. Netherlands), sync it with gdrive, create a torrent for your books, and “download” your books to the toreenting machine. This approach won’t help with upload speed, but it should help with reliability/continuity. As long as you seed from your home computer, your books will eventually make it into your gdrive. Although with this setup it might be easier to just torrent the ebooks to the online server from sources other than yourself.
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@fozid@feddit.uk 2026-03-08 07:45
The only real solution to do it faster is to use faster internet or compress it further. Then alternatives are chunk it or deal with a long maybe even 24 hour upload.
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@IanTwenty@piefed.social 2026-03-08 08:27
At 5mbps it should take about 1 hour for 2GB. It sounds like your actual speed is 2-3x lower. Can you take that up with your ISP? Are you certain your machine has the best connection within your control, i.e. directly wired into the router? Network equipment is not faulty? Have you tested with iperf within your network? Just in case there’s another issue beside the slow external speed… Another thing that springs to mind is to use a backup tool like restic that will not only compress but deduplicate your data into hundreds of small files that might make upload faster. Dedup can save significant space and you can try it out locally first. Just do restic init then restic backup PATH. Restic can use rclone as a backend also and upload straight to google: https://restic.readthedocs.io/en/stable/030_preparing_a_new_repo.html#other-services Finally there’s sometimes nothing faster than physically moving data. A person jogging with a 100gb drive has great bandwidth! Is there a location with better internet within reach? A library or school perhaps?
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@PetteriPano@lemmy.world 2026-03-08 11:43
I have great internets at home, but I did a lot of sailing abroad with limited roaming. I had my home server set up to download new videos from my favourite YouTube channels and put them in a shared syncthing directory. I’d just go hit that local pub or library with free WiFi and let syncthing on my smartphone do its thing.