50Gb free storage with Box for android

cdb

Box for Android and Android Tablet lets you view and share files from anywhere!Box provides simple, secure sharing from anywhere – letting you easily store files online, send big files quickly, access content from your Android phone or tablet, and collaborate with others. Now through Friday, March 23, 2012, log in to receive a free 50GB account upgrade! Box for Android lets you:
* Access, create and view content on your Android phone or tablet
* Upload multiple images, videos and files from the SD card
* Save files to your SD card for offline access
* Easily share files and folders with links
* Invite colleagues to shared folders and leave comments on files for them (note that you’ll need to grant permission for the app to access your contacts – we only use this permission to quickly retrieve email addresses when you want to invite collaborators, and we do NOT store any contact information on Box’s servers)
* Find content fast with built-in search
* Save files you edit or create in other Android apps to your Box account
* Add a widget to your home screen to see updates on files by colleagues

Android Market

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2PdgaEiFtA

jayteecork

Installed there for my PC and android.

I use dropbox to transfer files between my computer and my Android devices but dropbox is so f slow uploading I hope this is much faster.

cdb

Haven't used this or dropbox myself up to now but considering this is free I reckon its worth a trial run at least.

I already have the 50Gb box account from the HP touchpad offer they did a while back. Was doing a transfer yesterday - lots of small files and I was getting a transfer rate of 200 bytes per second. Still a nice freebie.

Shiny

Hmmm,

Cant sync with desktop (must pay $15/month for that)
Max file size 100MB (must pay also)

My excitement waned after seeing that....

mp3ireland2

Deleted User wrote: »

I already have the 50Gb box account from the HP touchpad offer they did a while back. Was doing a transfer yesterday - lots of small files and I was getting a transfer rate of 200 bytes per second. Still a nice freebie.

bytes or kilobytes!? I have an account from my touchpad too but never really used it yet....

Scarlet42

thanks cdb .. going to give it a go and see what the craic is!

mp3ireland2

mp3ireland2 wrote: »

bytes or kilobytes!? I have an account from my touchpad too but never really used it yet....

bytes!

You can sync it to the desktop by the way - well you can map it as a remote drive. That's how I use it.
http://www.webosnation.com/map-box-net-network-drive-your-computer

Skerries

are you sure it was Bytes?
as in a 1024 bytes = kilobyte
1024 kilobytes = megabyte

because if it is, that be shít ass slow

I am 100% certain - 204 bytes per second according to the windows file transfer dialog. I was uploading a small wordpress plugin with lots of tiny icon files (well under 1Mb) - it took a long time to transfer.

Shiny

Deleted User wrote: »

I am 100% certain - 204 bytes per second according to the windows file transfer dialog. I was uploading a small wordpress plugin with lots of tiny icon files (well under 1Mb) - it took a long time to transfer.

Thanks for the suggestion about adding the network drive, worked perfectly.;)

I just tried uploading a couple of test files and I'm getting upto 17MB/second
uploads to their server through the university connection so the speeds
definitely can be fast. Haven't tried over 3G.

jayteecork

This is **** so far. Say you have a folder than contains many different files well you can't seem to be able to horse it all in like drop box you have to put each file in separately. And via browser on PC the upload process has hung a few times.think I'll Dick to cock box

latenia

jayteecork wrote: »

think I'll Dick to cock box

Let us know how you get on with that...

Mr Bloat

jayteecork wrote: »

This is **** so far. Say you have a folder than contains many different files well you can't seem to be able to horse it all in like drop box you have to put each file in separately. And via browser on PC the upload process has hung a few times.think I'll Dick to cock box

If you follow the instructions in a post above showing how to map a network drive to box.net, you can drag and drop a folder easily. I have been uploading stuff to it all day through the browser and the drive mapping and it hasn't hung yet.
The upload speeds are brutal though!

EI_Flyboy

Here's a question about box on the touchpad. Seeing as I already have 50 free gigs thanks to the touchpad promotion, if I install Android 4 and download the box app, will I get a further free 45 gigs bringing my account to 95 gigs...?

I'm gaonna give this a go but has anybody else tried this?

ikomj

Is it just me or has mapping as a remote drive been disabled?

Nforce

ikomj wrote: »

Is it just me or has mapping as a remote drive been disabled?

Nope,working for me. I set it up today and trial uploaded a bunch of mp3's (folder was 200 mb). It took 5 hours to upload!:eek::pac:

dingding

ikomj wrote: »

Is it just me or has mapping as a remote drive been disabled?

Just done it now. You need to use https:// instead of http://

Nforce

dingding wrote: »

Just done it now. You need to use https:// instead of http://

I had to set up up the opposite way...ie http://