Imagine this: You have a big file or two, or say a folder stuffed with a couple of gigabytes worth of files, and you want to share them all with a buddy. You thought of sending them as a file attachment or maybe popping them onto an FTP server.
A better idea is to create a folder on your PC, move the files or folders to it, and have your friends see everything on their PCs almost instantly. (Okay, if they're on dialup, maybe not instantly. But then again, what are you doing with friends still on dialup?)
Fooling Around with FolderShare
You can do all this easily with FolderShare, a Web-based tool I raved about years ago.
When I last wrote about FolderShare, they had both a limited free service and a convoluted way to pay for sharing lots of files. But in November, the company was scarfed up by Microsoft, and now FolderShare is a freebie.
I encourage you to take advantage because it's a handy tool with unlimited file transfers. About the only restriction is that files can't be larger than 2GB.
Well, Steve some of us are not as fortunate as you city dwellers. There are no choices but dialup for many of us. I'm typing on a 26.8kbps connection right now.... ugh Please don't make fun of it, it's hard enough.
Thanks Frank
Where I live, general shopping charges are much the same as in the USA except for Broadband. Broadband would cost me $845 plus per year. Too much ! I simply can't afford that and I am not prepared to reward "robbers".
Techies....... please remember the thousands and thousands of us still using dialup!
Where I live, general shopping charges are much the same as in the USA except for Broadband. Broadband would cost me $845 plus per year. Too much ! I simply can't afford that and I am not prepared to reward "robbers".
Techies....... please remember the thousands and thousands of us still using dialup!
That' a pretty elitist attitude Mr. Bass even if it was just in jest. I'm not so sure I want to follow this blog if that continues.
Disappointing.
Dolores Francetti
It's a joke. Rent a sense of humor, or better yet, move out of your damn cave.
Honestly people, it was a JOKE. Good grief, what has the world come to where a guy can't make a statement in jest without somebody taking it too seriously and getting all bent out of shape over it? I may have the privilege of working for my local ISP, which I get DSL service from, but my parents are forced to live with dialup. Why? They live in a rural area and the local phone company there is too cheap to put a converter unit in that feeds off of a fiber optic trunkline just over a mile from my parents' place. Everytime I visit them I just about fall asleep waiting for web pages to load. Yes, I am fully aware of the rural broadband problem. I am also aware how some rural broadband "solutions" charge highway-robbery prices. It's a problem that needs to be dealt with, along with the problem of slow broadband adoption for rural areas. But you know what? I generally have sympathy for people like you, but the "woe is me" attitude ruined it for me.
I agree that we could have done without that statement, sure. Do I think any less of Mr. Bass? Of course not. Believe me, there are much more serious offenses than hurting your precious little feelings. For those of you who think there is no greater crime than somebody hurting your feelings, tell ya what...here's five bucks, BUY A SPINE! Time to grow up and get a sense of humor, people.
Mr. Bass, although they don't bother me in the least, you might wanna keep statements like those out of future blogs postings to keep the poor dial-upers happy.
Mr. Bass, I hope you'll not suppress your humor one bit to appease the humorless Luddites of the hinterlands. Besides, by the time they manage to upload their next prissy protest through their two-bit Juno account, Mankind will no longer exist.
Dear Mr Bass,
I very surprise to hear that people in the US are still struggling with dialups. I was in the impression that US is such a high-tech nation that everybody is enjoying top of the world computer technology.
It is uderstandable that we in Malaysia are mostly struggling with dialups though broadband is developing fast.
Perhaps someone there can tell us here why people in the US still use dialup lines in such an advance technological country like yours.
Regrds.
Abdul Jalil Ashaari
Dear Mr Bass,
I very surprised to hear that people in the US are still struggling with dialups. I was in the impression that US is such a high-tech nation that everybody is enjoying top of the world computer and communication technology.
It is uderstandable that we in Malaysia are mostly struggling with dialups though broadband is developing fast.
Perhaps someone there can tell us here why people in the US still use dialup lines in such an advance technological country like yours.
Regrds.
Abdul Jalil Ashaari
YA! Just go DSL!
Hello GREAT JOKE, WAS SUPRISED WHEN SO MANY GO UPSET BY IT. I USE TO BE A DIAL UPER,THANKS TO GRET TECH THESE DAYS I DISCOVERED DSL. I REALLY COULDN'T AFFORD IT THOUGH, BEING THE FATHER OF 5 KIDS, A WIFE, A DOG, AND A CAT, WITH THE ONLY SOURCE OF INCOME IN THE HOME. I JUST SIMPLY STOPED BUYING A SODA POP A DAY, THAT ENABLED TO PAY FOR DSL HOOKUP. BOY SURE GLAD I MADE THE SWITCH, WELL WORTH IT. SURE HE MADE A JOKE,, BUT NOT REALLY.. NEXT TO DSL.. DIAL UP IS THE JOKE ,, HA HA
Foldershare is a great tool, Thanks for the tip Steve.
(Currently paying $60.00 a month for a 5 meg high speed connection, So Foldershare can be used easily).
Small print states:
"We reserve the right to monitor content that is posted, and to modify or remove any messages or postings that we deem, in our sole discretion, to be abusive; defamatory...".
It's a pity this option hasn't been used to clear all the useless, irrelevant - and sometimes defamatory - bickering from this page.
Chance - Please do not use all upper case. It looks like you're shouting, it's large, and it's rude.
Thanks.
god there's a lot of really stupid people online.
To Abdul Jalil:
Even though many people in the USA enjoy advanced technology these days, many people are still unable to get broadband connections, for many reasons.
Many people simply cannot afford them. Contrary to what may be popular belief, not everybody in the USA is rich, not by a long shot. I myself am fortunate to be able to afford my 3-Mbit DSL connection since I get a discounted rate by working at the local ISP.
Also, broadband technologies have physical distance limitations. Digital cable is not available at all in rural areas, and DSL is hit and miss since it has a maximum distance limit of about 3 miles. Lots of rural areas simply cannot be reached by these conventional broadband technologies. There are alternatives in some areas such as fixed wireless (some call it wireless DSL) and satellite, but both have problem. Both of them suffer from connectivity issues since they are wireless technologies. Satellite service is rare, but even when it's available, it's very slow for basic web browsing due to the fact that the signals have to travel miles out into space and back through the satellites. Both are generally very high-priced (I've seen basic 128-Kbit fixed wireless for as much as $70 a month, maybe even more), which again leads back to the problem of the people not being able to afford it.
Solutions are becoming available, but very slowly in many rural areas. I just heard that the new powerline-based broadband services are about to be launched in certain areas, so hopefully that will prove reliable and cheap enough to bring broadband to the rural masses.
Abdul,
Rather than broadband, Malaysia should first implement the technology of not throwing people in jail who express opinions that displease the government.
But I guess you can't post THAT criticism, can you?
Dear Brad and Steve,
Thanks for the valuable information with regard to broadband and other related technologies in internet surfing in the US.
Back in Malaysia most of our surfers are still with the dialup lines and the same problem is being faced by us here ie the unavailability of the digital cable. It took me 3 years to get a broadband facility despite staying in Kuala Lumpur the capital city of Malaysia. Even though the government is promoting for the masses to convert from dialups to broadband but still the response is slow as the package is considered expensive and many cannot simply afford it. Presently a broadband subscription is in the range of RM66 - RM88 the difference being one without modem and the other with one.
I suppose it must be costly to have the country equip with broadband here and also it depends on the demand for it. In Malaysia not many can really afford to have a PC at home.
Definitely the progress in providing broadband facility is not as fast as in the US.
Throwing people into the jail for simply expressing opinions against the government happens almost in every country. Some countries do allow up to certain level of criticism before they put the guy into jail. Malaysia, perhaps, is one country that practices the dreaded Internal Security Act (ISA) that simply put people in jail without going through the process of law. Any person who criticizes the government which is felt to cause certain threat to the security of the nation is certain to put behind bars and being held for more than two months without trial.
I for one don't wish to face such an unfare treatment of not being able to be provided with proper legal procedures if put behind bars simply because I disagree on certain things that the government does. But what can we do?
I only hope that one day the government would review the dreaded ISA giving due respect to human rights issues connected to the "crime" that one commits and also in respecting the rights of legal representaion.
Regards.
Abdul Jalil Ashaari
I have seen this RUDE COMMENT ABOUT CAPS MANY TIMES, INCLUDING COLLEGE COURSES AND I THINK THAT IT IS REDICULOUS. fIRST OF ALL YOU CANNOT SEE SOUND!!!!! SO CAPS CANNOT LOOK LIKE SHOUTING. aND IT IS STILL READABLE, MORE READABLE TO SOME. i THINK THAT YOU JUST WANT TO USE THE DIFF TO INFER EMOTION. WELL IT WILL NOT WORK. AND IF I WANTED YOU TO SEE MY FACE I WOULD PLUG IN THE CAM. FOR NOW YOU WILL JUST HAVE TO LIVE WITH THE FACT THAT THERE IS NO BODY LANGUAGE IN TEXT.!.!.!.!.!.!.!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YOU LIKE THESE??????!!!!!!!!!! THEY MEAN THAT I AM SHOUTING AT YOU FOR THE SOLE PURPOSE OF BEING rude :)
I was excited to be able to read 19[!] comments about a file sharing solution that may be of use to me. What do I find instead, a group of folks that have nothing better to do that to post about an aside about dialup!
Thank you all very much for taking the time to fill the comments with absolutely nothing useful about the file sharing solution.
HI, im noske
i want to know if you can help me.i got some type of other problem not really the same as the above ,
my problem is that i am limited by an 5MB or less, round about 4-5MB, thats the maximum amount i can download, yes is tuff to download any thing,
i am using a nokia6230 fone as my modem and the fone itself has a 4-5MB limit itself and i tink thats what puting my limit on the internet on the computer, every thing works perfectly but i cnt download big files,
can you pls let me no of any file programs or software i can make use of to overcome this limit please.
thanks noske,