I live in The Netherlands where I have a 20Mbit down/3Mbit up connection through cable, and I get both speeds perfectly with servers that either can deliver or accept it.
Yet, uploading files to iDisk either is painfully slow or simply screws up.
It uploads very slowly for a while, then nothing for a while. Sometimes just stops without an error and not having uploaded everything.
I use MobileMe mainly for my mail/address book/ical/password and stuff, but no way I use it daily for iDisk. Way too unstable here.
I live in Belgium and have the same performance issue using the iDisk.
Uploading does go faster if I access the iDisk via http://www.me.com .
This I would like but at the same time I don?t agree with because if there was a way to somehow quickly setup MM, start the Find My iPhone feature and then remove MM then your device could be tracked by anyone without your knowledge. I think the best we can hope for is Apple to require a password to remove MM or to change the Find My IPhone setting.
Not really. To do that they would have to first get your phone then start the pairing app and logged it into MM At the same time they would have to be logged into MM from a computer. They would then have to enter the same code into both in order to complete the pairing. Kinda like bluetooth pairing where you have to enter a code. So unless you leave your phone just laying around that's not likely to happen.
If you don't want to use the service you would bring up the pairing app and turn it off but you would have to completely erase the phone if you wanted to activate it later. That way you would know if someone did try to lock it to another MM account because when you went to use your phone you would fine all of your data missing.
This can be make very secure so someone couldn't hijack the feature without you knowing about it.
One last point, Apple should always work with the police to force the phone into a tracking mode. This is if the police would be willing to take the time to try and locate the phone which is doubtful.
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iDisk speed is crap for me too.
I live in The Netherlands where I have a 20Mbit down/3Mbit up connection through cable, and I get both speeds perfectly with servers that either can deliver or accept it.
Yet, uploading files to iDisk either is painfully slow or simply screws up.
It uploads very slowly for a while, then nothing for a while. Sometimes just stops without an error and not having uploaded everything.
I use MobileMe mainly for my mail/address book/ical/password and stuff, but no way I use it daily for iDisk. Way too unstable here.
I live in Belgium and have the same performance issue using the iDisk.
Uploading does go faster if I access the iDisk via http://www.me.com .
Maybe try that?
This I would like but at the same time I don?t agree with because if there was a way to somehow quickly setup MM, start the Find My iPhone feature and then remove MM then your device could be tracked by anyone without your knowledge. I think the best we can hope for is Apple to require a password to remove MM or to change the Find My IPhone setting.
Not really. To do that they would have to first get your phone then start the pairing app and logged it into MM At the same time they would have to be logged into MM from a computer. They would then have to enter the same code into both in order to complete the pairing. Kinda like bluetooth pairing where you have to enter a code. So unless you leave your phone just laying around that's not likely to happen.
If you don't want to use the service you would bring up the pairing app and turn it off but you would have to completely erase the phone if you wanted to activate it later. That way you would know if someone did try to lock it to another MM account because when you went to use your phone you would fine all of your data missing.
This can be make very secure so someone couldn't hijack the feature without you knowing about it.
One last point, Apple should always work with the police to force the phone into a tracking mode. This is if the police would be willing to take the time to try and locate the phone which is doubtful.