[nfbcs] anyone use pho plug?

[Bryan Schulz]

hi,

i haven't experimented with this yet but you can have a personal cloud at 
your office with the patriot valkyrie or javelin nas box and access info 
from anywhere you travel via ftp.
Bryan Schulz


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gabe Vega" <theblindtech at gmail.com>
To: "NFB in Computer Science Mailing List" <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2012 1:54 PM
Subject: Re: [nfbcs] anyone use pho plug?


> sorry, I should have been much clearer. I have a 1TB drive connected to a 
> pc. a mac to be exact.I heard of devices that would connect to a router 
> port and have a usb port on the other end so that you can connect a drive 
> and access the data over the net. or is there a software solution to do 
> this with the pc as a host?
>
> I subscribe to skydrive, and I guess I could move my 45GB folder over and 
> share it that way, but I was looking for something a little bit more 
> direct. and maybe I could pay a couple more dollars to up my 45gb to 
> 100gb. well, if anyone has ideas, let me know. thanks.
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> On Nov 15, 2012, at 12:34 PM, Jim Barbour <jbar at barcore.com> wrote:
>
>> Your question is a bit vague, so let me see if I can add some flavor
>> here.
>>
>> You can -- using services like pogo plug, dropbox, sugarsync, google
>> drive -- make data available to you on the internet from a local drive
>> on your machine.  None of this will be free and the data must all be
>> uploaded to the cloud servers.  The benefits of doing it this way is
>> that you now have a backup of the data in the cloud.  The downsides of
>> this are they you have to pay for storage, and then upload the data to
>> the cloud servers.
>>
>> I hope this answers your question.  If not, feel free to ask more.
>>
>> Jim
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 12:19:05PM -0700, Gabe Vega wrote:
>>> would like to hook up a 1tb usb drive to the internet and have access to 
>>> it from anywhere. does anyone know how this can be done, via pogoplug or 
>>> any other solution? Thanks.
>>> Gabe Vega - Sent from my MacbookAir
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>>> iMessage/Email: theblindtech at gmail.com
>>> Phone: (623) 565-9357
>>>
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