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Jeff Campbell
02-03-2009, 08:00 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.macworld.com/article/138593/2009/02/syncplicity.html' target='_blank'>http://www.macworld.com/article/138...yncplicity.html</a><br /><br /></div><p><em>"Looking for a good way of having your files accessible on multiple computers? MobileMe's an option, but if you're not looking for all the other bells and whistles (web pages, email accounts, etc.), there's now another player in the mix: Syncplicity."</em></p><p><em><img src="http://images.thoughtsmedia.com/resizer/thumbs/size/600/at/auto/1233632503.usr105634.jpg" /></em></p><p>This was in private beta for Mac but is now being made available. Like <a href="http://www.getdropbox.com/" target="_blank">Dropbox</a>, <a href="http://www.syncplicity.com/" target="_blank">Syncplicity</a> offers free file storage, sharing and syncing online. They give you 2GB free storage initially, and you can upgrade to more for a price. They also put an interesting twist to the referral bounty I've seen other companies use. Refer friends and each time they sign up for the service, they give you 2GB, up to total of 6GB. This is Intel-only and requires that you be running OS X version 10.5.</p>

doogald
02-03-2009, 09:47 PM
I saw this. As I said in the Menu Bar thread, I've been having an unfortunate performance issue with Dropbox, so I may try this out.

doogald
02-04-2009, 02:49 AM
I tried it, and it had the same performance issue. And I like Dropbox better anyway.

Jeff Campbell
02-04-2009, 08:40 PM
I haven't used Dropbox too often, mostly just messing around with it. What performance issues did you have?

doogald
02-04-2009, 08:55 PM
Whenever anything is uploading it completely dominates network performance - I cannot even get decent response from DNS requests. I suspect that it is using the network stack poorly. As I said in the Menu Bar thread, so far only SugarSync (which is uploading as I type) does not makes this happen among Microsoft Live Mesh, Dropbox, and now Syncplicity (and SugarSync actually gets better upload performance than Dropbox does, incidentally).

My cable gets 5 Mbps down, 512 kbps up, and that makes this particularly frustrating - it is the slow part of my pipe that bogs down the fast part.