Minbox - a faster workflow for sending files

Re:Minbox - a faster workflow for sending files by zombio on Monday May 20, 2013 @04:23PM (#5739802)

Funny video and interesting app, although it's kind of misleading. It doesn't actually send files faster, you still have to wait the full upload time. What it does do is allow you to forget about the upload... it will automatically send once it's ready.

Good job overall, I might get it when it's available on windows.

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Re:Minbox - a faster workflow for sending files by aihunter on Monday May 20, 2013 @09:13PM (#5741310)

Thanks zombio. But it actually DOES send faster. 2x faster than Dropbox and Google Drive...

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Re:Minbox - a faster workflow for sending files by pudquick on Monday May 20, 2013 @10:56PM (#5741645)

Do you have the numbers to back that up?

Your page mentions uploads to S3 - do you do regional matching with appropriate region buckets? I've seen numbers that are sub 1Mbps when you hit the wrong S3 region yet I can reliably hit 900Kbps - 1.2Mbps, if not faster at times, with Dropbox.

Can you provide some average upload speeds you've seen? (Even from a non-residential connection is fine.)

Also - you state unlimited size, but even multipart upload to S3 claims a 5 TB max object size limit. Did you work around that somehow?

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