F2S Launch New Virtual Vault Service

[Freedom2Support]

Freedom2Surf have this morning launched a new Virtual Vault service by partnering with humyo.com to offer users a place to store web content online.

It's a FREE service that offers you unlimited storage space online to store photos, music & video. You can access your files from anywhere in the world and can even access them on your mobile phone!

Share your files with friends, safe in the knowledge that your files are secure and can only be viewed if you give permission.

Some of the Benefits:
- Access your files anywhere in the world - your secure online area can be accessed from any computer and files can be worked with either on or downloaded for working offline.

- Share your files with as few or as many people as you like; You set permissions on all your uploaded files, share it with the world or with a chosen few. It's your choice.

- Totally Free & Unrestricted; this is a free service and there are no size limits on what you can unload.

- Integrated Media Viewer; no need to download your videos & mp3 files, view or listen to them using our integrated viewer.

More information at: http://www.freedom2surf.net/virtual-vault/

Feel free to discuss in this thread

[kmount]

Interesting.

Think I'll give this a go.

[kmount]

Page needs some amendments such as the title being SDSL Broadband.

The sign up page made me chuckle a little as the captcha says "can't read?" under it ... implying either that a user couldn't read at all, or couldn't make out the image.

All signed up though, lets see if it works nicely.

Good stuff f2s.

[Stewart]

Of course, they could have actually fixed the webspace instead?

I don't know about f2s nowadays, it's all about these value added services rather than fixing the stuff they offer first and foremost like email and webspace.

Sooner pipex sell out the better, hopefully we can go back to the days when the guys WANTED to improve the service rather than cheap marketing gimmicks, until then, I'll stay away from being a customer apart from the odd payg dialup.

[kmount]

Just tried the 'download file from the web' aspect to try and grab the new kubuntu image but it refused to accept that it was an iso not a text file.

Shame, I could see that being quite a nice tool.

[Justin]

While I have no problem with f2s offering such a tool, I would say that I hope such services are not of the utmost priority at the moment, we've had security and now this, when some of the basics, such as email / webspace are not put behind services like this.

[devnull]

It requires Java enabled which isn't ideal at the moment :

http://www.matasano.com/log/812/brea...32-apple-code/

[DavidC]

Customers should note that the use of Virtual Vault will count towards their monthly usage allowances.

Cynical old me wonders...........
Overusage email templates at the ready

[mrjones]

Originally Posted by DavidC

Cynical old me wonders...........
Overusage email templates at the ready

Surely not.

Did you miss the part where it said "It's a FREE service that offers you unlimited storage space online".

[DavidC]

What - you mean it's like f2s 'unlimited' as in, err, unlimited

[devnull]

Ok, I'm lost, how does this :

"Customers should note that the use of Virtual Vault will count towards their monthly usage allowances."

correlate with this :

"Totally Free & Unrestricted; this is a free service and there are no size limits on what you can unload."

Can someone from F2S please advise ?

[aos101]

devnull, the Virtual Vault service is unlimited and you can use it as much as you want. If you use it through your F2S connection (instead of say, your work Internet connection) you may be limited by how much your package allows you to transfer data, but that is a limit on your connection and not the Virtual Vault service.

[devnull]

Originally Posted by aos101

devnull, the Virtual Vault service is unlimited and you can use it as much as you want. If you use it through your F2S connection (instead of say, your work Internet connection) you may be limited by how much your package allows you to transfer data, but that is a limit on your connection and not the Virtual Vault service.

Thanks

[mrjones]

Anyone signed up and used it yet?

[devnull]

Originally Posted by mrjones

Anyone signed up and used it yet?

Yup, but with such a slow upstream speed it's painfully slow. I guess I'll have to upload my 150gb picture library from work or an internet cafe :-)

[atsw]

Sign-up was quick and easy. Had a quick play from my work connection (4Mb up/down) and it seemed to do what was promised. Not sure I like the JAVA dialogs, but they work.

Here's a short movie (a fun and harmless animation) which will play from your browser, and here's a picture of the famous Burj Al Arab (The Sail) Hotel in Dubai. I grabbed both the MPEG and the JPG from the Internet just to see how the system worked, neither are mine.

Andrew

[RND]

or you lot could simply try out Picasa and google gallery

[atsw]

Originally Posted by RND

or you lot could simply try out Picasa and google gallery

Yep, I'd agree with the recommendation of Google Picasa, great bit of software, easy to use and really good for sharing photo's with friends and family. Certainly better than the Virtual Vault, that's for sure.

Andrew

[ajuniper]

Anyone know if there is a way of using this from a (Linux) box running without a GUI? I'd like to use it from a cron job to back up my box periodically but can't see anything obvious.

Update: Just found it in the Ts&Cs:

5. Without limiting the foregoing, you will not use the HUMYO services for any of the following activities:
c: any automated use of the system, such as using scripts to add friends or copy files;

Dang!

[2ndmouse]

I've signed up and tried to upload - i get the following java exception - see attached.

Anyone got a cure for this?

Regards

[2ndmouse]

PS - there doesn't appear to be any 'Help' facility with this new feature????

[atsw]

Originally Posted by 2ndmouse

I get the following java exception.
Anyone got a cure for this?

Have you got the latest JAVA download installed? The current issue is Runtime Environment 6, update 1. You can uninstall any earlier versions that show up in the Control Panel. Visit www.java.com to check and get the latest issue.

Andrew

[2ndmouse]

Thanks for the response atsw - I have the latest version of Java installed already. I think it might have something to do with the fact that I am behind a coporate firewall on this particular machine - it works ok from home.

Still need to cure it for my purposes though.

Regards

[krysia]

I wasn't sure from reading the information whether you have to transfer files from your computer to the virtual vault, or if you can copy them to it, so that they remain on your computer and are in the vault as well. Anyone know?

[kmount]

Its up to you krysia. I'd stick with copying though for safety's sake.