Sending large files?
Thursday 12 January 2006 - Filed under computers
This problem comes up occasionally – I want to send some large files (hundreds of megabytes) to someone else. They’re too big for email, I don’t want to share them with the world, can’t just burn a DVD, and neither of us has a computer that is constantly connected to the internet.
I usually resort to putting them up at my web space temporarily under an obscure directory name, but that’s not ideal, since I need to remember to take them down, and have to make sure I tell search engines that they’re not to be spidered.
Doesn’t this seem like a problem that should have been solved already? It should be very simple to just send a file once to someone, asynchronously, and not have to worry about anyone else getting it, or taking it down, or going over your bandwidth limit or email attachment limit.
If you have a clever way of sending large files around, let me know in the comments. (Update, hours later- comments are enabled now, I don’t know what happened there)
2006-01-12 » mike
13 January 2006 @ 2:21 am
off the top of my head, DropLoad will let you send files under 100 megs. http://www.dropload.com
13 January 2006 @ 7:51 am
http://copylog.blogspot.com/2005/11/big-collection-of-free-file-hosting.html
13 January 2006 @ 2:56 pm
Pando looks like a very interesting new service to do just what you’re attempting. It seems to combine the ease of use and 1-to-1/1-to-several concept of email with the proven large-file-sharing prowess of P2P.
The system is secure (file are encrypted), your pando account is linked to your email address (that’s how you initiate the transfer), and it uses P2P to send your files.
Files you’re sending are stored for 2 weeks on Pando’s own supernodes, and can be retrieved only by the intended recipient.
No, I don’t work for Pando :)
13 January 2006 @ 3:11 pm
Nathan, that sounds like the kind of thing I was really thinking about – basically thinking that if I want ’sending’, not ‘hosting’, what can all the P2P technology do for me to speed things up?
Thanks for the link!
15 January 2006 @ 1:29 pm
http://www.yousendit.com works for me when sending audio stems in between my other band member and me.