06-04-2009, 15:12
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V Stuff is Live
V Stuff mow appears to be fully operational today, im surprised no-one else has spotted this yet.
I have the unlimited tariff with 50Mb and so far have uploaded some 24Gb today, very quick transfer rates, all done in the background and auto sync's with any changes you make.
If anyone is using it then please share your experiences.
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06-04-2009, 15:55
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Re: V Stuff is Live
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Originally Posted by weesteev
V Stuff mow appears to be fully operational today, im surprised no-one else has spotted this yet.
I have the unlimited tariff with 50Mb and so far have uploaded some 24Gb today, very quick transfer rates, all done in the background and auto sync's with any changes you make.
If anyone is using it then please share your experiences.
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This will be because most people don't care, and most people aren't on the 'unlimited tariff' and will get STM'd if they upload too much.
It's not possible to upload 24GB in a day on the XXL upload as it's such a joke so there has to be some compression in the background helping you out there or it's misreporting somehow.
Have to say I regard this as a waste of time and money, if VM want to impress me then rather than keeping useless project managers in jobs on crap like this they can work on the core aspects of the product, reliability and performance, performance especially being very sadly lacking in a number of areas.
Oh wait that's not 'cool' enough and doesn't allow willy waving emails like those we received advertising this rubbish. My mistake.
EDIT: Love the money grab sneaked into it:
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For just £5 a month you can upgrade to V Stuff Unlimited*
Giving you unlimited backup and storage allowance and 100 free** photo prints per month!
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06-04-2009, 15:57
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Re: V Stuff is Live
The is a double page advert in The Times according to a couple of customers that have called in.
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06-04-2009, 15:59
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Re: V Stuff is Live
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Originally Posted by Moldova
The is a double page advert in The Times according to a couple of customers that have called in.
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If they put half as much effort into the core product as they do into PR... *sigh*
EDIT: The backup solution is a while label service from these guys: http://www.steek.com/
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06-04-2009, 16:08
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Re: V Stuff is Live
just had a quick look and does this really only backup from default locations or am I missing a browse to file to upload link?
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06-04-2009, 16:09
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Bah Humbug!!
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Re: V Stuff is Live
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Originally Posted by Broadbandings
This will be because most people don't care, and most people aren't on the 'unlimited tariff' and will get STM'd if they upload too much.
It's not possible to upload 24GB in a day on the XXL upload as it's such a joke so there has to be some compression in the background helping you out there or it's misreporting somehow.
Have to say I regard this as a waste of time and money, if VM want to impress me then rather than keeping useless project managers in jobs on crap like this they can work on the core aspects of the product, reliability and performance, performance especially being very sadly lacking in a number of areas.
Oh wait that's not 'cool' enough and doesn't allow willy waving emails like those we received advertising this rubbish. My mistake.
EDIT: Love the money grab sneaked into it:
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Well that is your opinion and you are entitled to it.
However there are lots of people out there that will use the service and find it a great help. I for one will be using the photo printing offer a lot as I did on the old service.
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06-04-2009, 16:10
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Re: V Stuff is Live
Its all done by snapfish now if you sign upto them you get loads of offers anyway. Does this give free prints every month? or is it a one off
50 free per month is good enough though
I use snapfish and they are very very good indeed compared to quick print supermarket jobbies
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06-04-2009, 16:16
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Bah Humbug!!
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Re: V Stuff is Live
You get 50 free prints on XL for the first 12 months. First 3 orders are free postage too.
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06-04-2009, 16:17
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Re: V Stuff is Live
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Originally Posted by Stephen
Well that is your opinion and you are entitled to it.
However there are lots of people out there that will use the service and find it a great help. I for one will be using the photo printing offer a lot as I did on the old service.
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Well at least staff seem enthusiastic about it. I personally would rather effort were expended on fixing the primary product than doing these 'value adds' that's all. I also find it concerning that this thing does automatic sync and await with some amusement people complaining that their HSI is running poorly and/or they've been STM'd due to this.
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06-04-2009, 16:18
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Re: V Stuff is Live
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Originally Posted by zinglebarb
just had a quick look and does this really only backup from default locations or am I missing a browse to file to upload link?
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Click on The Backup all Files/Folders (Orange one) and you can select a folder to upload.
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06-04-2009, 16:22
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Re: V Stuff is Live
arrr yes should have looked closer
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06-04-2009, 16:53
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Bah Humbug!!
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Re: V Stuff is Live
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Originally Posted by Broadbandings
Well at least staff seem enthusiastic about it. I personally would rather effort were expended on fixing the primary product than doing these 'value adds' that's all. I also find it concerning that this thing does automatic sync and await with some amusement people complaining that their HSI is running poorly and/or they've been STM'd due to this.
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I AM speaking as a customer and not a member of staff!!
There is nothing broken with the primary product.
opinions are like buttholes, everyones got one!
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06-04-2009, 17:24
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Re: V Stuff is Live
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Originally Posted by Stephen
I AM speaking as a customer and not a member of staff!!
There is nothing broken with the primary product.
opinions are like buttholes, everyones got one!
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Of course not, it's perfectly fine that an VM release an online backup service with storage of 10GB on XL and automatic sync. That's great apart from that you can't upload to it during certain periods of the day as it will cause your connection to be throttled to 1/4th performance and the upstream rate is so low it will take an XL customer over 30 hours to fill their storage allowance.
There's my opinion, with a couple of examples. VM releasing this with a 2 page national newspaper ad on a broadband product with STM and poor upstreams is laughable, not that it's that great a launch it's just a French online backup service rebranded.
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06-04-2009, 17:25
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Re: V Stuff is Live
Wow, a place to store her indoors photo's, hopes there's enough space
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06-04-2009, 18:15
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Re: V Stuff is Live
OOh they've overhauled the help homepage too, that's a vast improvement. I hope they don't stop there and continue to improve the entire section, compared with Plusnet's it's dire and even Sky have better documentation.
I don't think I'll find a use for V Stuff, but I'm sure there are people who'll use it.
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