Average Online Time - Multiple Computers

Theoretically each computer is handled separately.
If you share 10 Gigs on one computer which is online 50% of the time you get 5 Gigs of storage for that computer.
If you now add a second computer where you share 3 Gigs which is on 80% you should get 2.4 Gigs for your second computer.
In the storage info it should show the online time depending on the computer you use to check it. At the top you should see that you earned 5 Gigs + 2.4 Gigs.

I have 3 computers online 100% of the time, and on one computer, several Virtual Machines that are online 100% of the time. I have never seen them gain more than 13% average online time. Several climbed to 9% and have since been crawling backwards, now at 4%. They've been online for weeks now, and appear to be fine. What's happening?

My guess is that if Wuala can see each workstation as originating from unique external IP addresses, each workstation would receive individual storage credit. You can combine those separate storage credit into one lump sum if use the same login for all the workstations.

If you have multiple workstations using the same external IP address, I could see that having unintended consequences.

Does Wuala currently factor in the following?

* Use actual KBs sent not related to initial-file upload. So, KB sent for maintaining and fielding requests are weighed.

* Sustained upload rate?

* Weigh Trade Up To less than it currently is. It is easy to trade up to 100GB and only contribute 10GB Locally Stored Data. It is a generous loophole right now.

@ sunk818:
Each Wuala client generates a unique NodeID (it somehow looks like a IPv4 adress to me btw.) no matter what the extrernal IP is or was.

Wuala just does the following: Get the size of your ...\Wuala\Data\Fragments2 folder, multiply it by 10, compare it to your max. limit, take the lower value and multiply it with your uptime of that NodeID - that's it!
This is done on all your clients and the resulting size gets reported (btw. I'd say the calculation is done server-side!) and added to your account.

That's good to know. That means I can have multiple instances up on the same workstation using something like VirtualPC or VMWare and get credit for each instance of Wuala? I could divide up my upload between the multiple instances -- not contribute much upload as an average -- but get more storage. I guess someone needs to abuse the system for it to get fixed. :)

So, in my setup, I have a home PC running Ubuntu's AMD-64 distro, which is on a TWC IP; and I have 4-5 PCs at my office, sharing a single Verizon IP. Technically, I have two PCs at the office, one running Ubuntu amd64, the other with Windows XP; and the Ubuntu PC hosts a slew of Virtual Machines (Windows XP), two of which are always on. So, at the very least, 3 PCs and 2 VMs are always on--100% of the time. My home PC almost reached 17%, but it has been crawling backwards again. Over the past few days, I've lost ~0.5 percentage points a day, and I'm down to 12% average online time.

My office PCs have been losing percentage points more slowly--it's taken more than a week to drop from 10% to 8%. The VMs have never topped 5%.

Wuala is a life saver for me, because I can work from the same file system in any environment, bypassing VPNs and all the rest. I work from home quite a bit, and within my office, I have multiple simultaneous VPNs to different networks across the country, which makes Wuala a great solution. I just can't get over 17%. I've checked my network health on a daily basis--I'm not getting any significant packet loss or IP failures.

Is there any way to actually gain % for online time? I've been running Wuala for months with no sustained improvements in online average uptime.

hrm.