Ideas for improvement

I think the concept it good, but the usability can be improved. I have these suggestions:
- add a progress-bar and ETA for upload !! It can take a significant amount of time, especially for slow usb keys
- add a cancel button for upload too
- dont put the uploading tmp files in the same directory than the Shared directory. I'm fearing that files starting with tmp (that are not real temporary files) take the risk to be wiped out at restart.

That's it for today!
Thanks for this cool forum and great project.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/08/2012 08:55PM by csolus.

I'm worried about upload speed. I DL at 4MB/s, but upload to the PB at approx 300-500KB/s. This is obviously not my usb key, because it writes at 5MB/s (measured). There's probably some issues in the upload protocol that is currently used.

Other possible improvement:
- show available disc-space to users in the PB

Hi,
no, it is an issue of the low cpu speed of the box.
Droopy have a high cpu-load while upload... but It scales very nicly... my own-written Upload-Script running on lighttpd caused too much stress on OpenWRT with a forced reboot... "The watchdog" thought the box was hanged up... or I overloaded the USB-Chip while writing.

Whatever, yes it is low. It is an CPU and USB-Chip issue.
Upload protocol is http, so no change possible on this thing.

kind regards
Matthias

If ever you need web developpers to style and/or add functions to the PirateBox html, I (among many others) will be glad to help! Just let us know if you need something coded
I'm pretty sure that a progress bar, for example, would be something feasible.