Depending on what your doing the pogoplug does use a lot of data. I looked at one of my bills after transferring and watching movies (around 1.5 GB each) and my monthly data usage was around 220 GB. My limit is 250 GB through comcast. Lucky the slow speed of my computer wont let me get much higher than that. I suppose if i had a fast one that was capable of transcribing videos faster i could get well over that 250 GB limit.

What I am really asking is
If i don't have unlimited allowance on my home connection and also my mobile connection then is this going to cost me an arm and a leg to watch my movies from my hotel room when away on trips ????

yes i have all my films and TV series on external hard drive already. this item is what i am considering as the answer to my problems, the next challenge for the support team is how can i allow friends to browse my collection and adults only allowed to over 18's section of movies?
I know i can send the url for them to watch a particular movie but want to give them choice without my having to oversea who is watching what.... IE kids

I was looking at the belkin network hub but that allows only one person to access the hard drive at a time and they then have to disconnect after use.

Oh right. so its a one person at a time once again....guess its going to have to be the nats server method but thats not anywhere as cost effective and simple as this item.
having said that then i guess if this is all within wireless LAN range then its possible for more than one person to watch 2 different films at the same time and thats the idea behind this?
Bit off putting tho if i'm away from home and the family are watching something then i can't access anything.... I think this is confusing.
Adding to that then. say 4 persons asking for a film each is 2.8Gb of data travelling down the cabe to the internet in 1.5 hrs therefore not as simple as one may imagine. mmmm

Thanks for taking the time to give your advice.
Right so in my situation then as I visit our holiday home on a site independantly for a month here and there etc. during the season many families are in close proximity and this could be a way of sharing video between us but would need the hard drive here and one pogoplug.
Origionally the idea of having the media at home in the UK and family members adding TV recordings as and when would be ideal but thus needing everyone here on site to share an unlimited internet connection and be networked.
I think then the data traffic would be horrendous and bog the system down.
OK solution: Can i buy one of these Pogoplugs here in Turkey or do i need to get it bought out on the next trip along with an extra copy of the hard drive?
Many Thanks in appreciation :-)

Just been watching the Zumocast video and also tried cloud storage with Dropbox. these seem to want to download the entire file before being playable,even with magazines and E-books of 1mb so is this the case with pogoplug or does it stream successfully without any delay?

Thanks. I Will make further tests on that basis but i think the emphasis is the streaming ability. From experience at internet cafe with video on their server there is quite a delay before playing and that is direct. this being the main reason between just sharing the drive on the network and actually buying something that streams successfully which i hope the plug is.

Tosh said: Oh right. so its a one person at a time once again....guess its going to have to be the nats server method but thats not anywhere as cost effective and simple as this item. having said that then i guess if this is all within wireless LAN range then its possible for more than one person to watch 2 different films at the same time and thats the idea behind this? Bit off putting tho if i'm away from home and the family are watching something then i can't access anything.... I think this is confusing. Adding to that then. say 4 persons asking for a film each is 2.8Gb of data travelling down the cabe to the internet in 1.5 hrs therefore not as simple as one may imagine. mmmm

If you are away accessing pogoplug media, then it is using your oustside WAN (ISP) connection to access the data. If two or more people outside the home are doing so could be a data bottleneck and use a lot of data and ISP bandwidth. However, if you are away and others are accessing from inside the home,  their traffic doesn't go over your outside network connection. Your router on internal traffic would send it to only over the LAN. The only data limitation on local LAN use would be the data speed of your LAN, whether wired or wireless.