What is the best MEDIA STORAGE in the net for my iMac?

I'm using mediafire and it just takes forever to upload. 300mb equivalent to about 200 mp3's takes 2 hours. I'd like to just simply free up my 1TB lacie External HD so i don't keep buying Hard Drives. I also want to dump my HiDef movies to free up my other 1TB Lacie hard drive. Thanks in advance for your help =)

dishaster wrote:
I'm using mediafire and it just takes forever to upload. 300mb equivalent to about 200 mp3's takes 2 hours.
Sounds about right to me. My cable modem claims 7 mbits/sec download, 500 kbits/sec upload, and I get roughly the same speed you do.
Unless you're supposed to have much higher upload speeds, you're not going to improve on that a whole lot.

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