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Fon and Wuala
Now that La Fonera 2.0n is availiable, are there any plans to bring Wuala to it? That would really be great. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FON#Fone....0n
There was a positive statemant on this back in 2007 by Dominik Grolimund here: http://blog.fon.com/de/archive/techno...
If the recent merger with LaCie is a problem here, at least get a stand-alone wuala device to the market. I'd happily share 1TB 24/7 if I don't need to have my computer running all the time ;-)
There was a positive statemant on this back in 2007 by Dominik Grolimund here: http://blog.fon.com/de/archive/techno...
If the recent merger with LaCie is a problem here, at least get a stand-alone wuala device to the market. I'd happily share 1TB 24/7 if I don't need to have my computer running all the time ;-)
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Inappropriate?Dear MartinDerM,
we haven ́t forgotten LaFornera. In a longer term, we are very interested on an introduction to the project.
As you wrote, the merger with LaCie provides interesting possibilities for Wuala. Let us surprise you.
Regards,
Bernd
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Inappropriate?I am also considering getting a Fonera, but I want to be able to use it with my Wuala account, so that I can plug in my external hard drive directly to the router.
When is the integration going to be done?
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Inappropriate?i've done some research on this and I suspect that a router like the fonera does not have enough computing power to do the stuff wuala does in a reasonable time...
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It really is a pity. Right now I have a Mac Mini on all the time just to get my wuala going. I'd love to be able to do the same with the fonera. But indeed, since Wuala is java intensive, I doubt the fonera would be able to handle it..
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Inappropriate?I am not sure if it’s a problem of computing power. The fonera-wuala application would be a faceless (non-gui) thing - what might work. Think about mobile phones running java as well...
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the gui is not the problem but the creation of the encrypted fragments is.
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Inappropriate?Who do you think has to work on this go get it working? Fon or Wuala (Lacie) ?
I'm not even sure they are "talking" to each other. It's a matter of seeing who has the most benefits from the "partnership" and getting Wuala to work on the Fonera 2.0n.
The way I see it. Wuala has to do some changes to it's java interface. It's anyway frustrating to have to run a program in the background all the time just to be able to share a folder with the world. Look at how Dropbox does it.
That's the main reason I don't run Wuala on my Laptop, I just keep it running at home.
So... Wuala, any plans for integration with the Fonera? And can you do it on your own, or do you have to talk to the Fon guys?
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Inappropriate?"in a longer term" is mostly not within one month...
If this modem runs with a linux and have at least 256 MB of free ram for wuala, you can try to get the linux version in nogui mode running. Ich can ́t see this on their website.
joao.rei - You do not need to let Wuala run in the tha background to enable to share a folder with the world. Once uploaded, these files will be accessible. Regardless if your Wuala Client is online or not.
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bagelcat, thanks for the reply.
You say that I don't need to have Wuala run in the background to share folders. But if Wuala is not running (the java app) will I still gain points for being online and sharing my free disk space with the world? -
you will of course not increasing you onlinetime. You "points" will decreases when you are offline. If you want to have more space from trading, you have to be online.
But the files that you ́ve uploaded are online and everybody who have access to them can access them 24/7. Wuala is an online storage. You do not need to be logged in in order make your files accessible when you have uploaded them. ;) If you buy space or the 1GB start space is enough, just upload the files an close Wuala again. They will be there for everybody who get access to them from you. -
I know :)
The files will be available, and that is good of course.
But I won't increase or maintain my share size if I don't have Wuala running on the background :) Of course I could, If I would buy storage... but I rather trade, and to trade you need the java app running.
So yeah, Fonera 2.0 and the wuala app running so we can increase the traded space, would be awesome!
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ok. But you ́ve said: "It's anyway frustrating to have to run a program in the background all the time just to be able to share a folder with the world. Look at how Dropbox does it." So I thought this sentence belongs to "I have to be online".. Wich point have you meant? You ́ll get some limited free start space in Wuala. If you want more, you can trade of buy space. In Dropbox, you ́ll get some limited startspace for free. If you want more, you have to buy. Did I miss something? If not - should Wuala really go the same way? ;)
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No, not at all.
The one thing I like about wuala (only using it for less than a month, so you never know...) is the ability to gain "cloud" storage by giving away some of your own free space locally. Don't lose that or you lose what makes you different.
Of course you're not making money with me directly, but you do make money with paying customers who don't trade and end up using my free hard disk space to store their files.
Either way, would be nice to be able to tell the wuala servers that I'm online and sharing, without having a java app running the in the background... specially if that app can run inside a fonera 2.0n ;) -
Ahh - ok. Now I got the point. Just to have an non-java (trading-) client. ;) Sorry, the reference to dropbox was a little bit irritating. ;)
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