Magruter December 13, 2006 Share Magruter Member December 13, 2006 Can anyone help me out? I'm looking to send a 40 gig file to someone. Rather than take 10 dvd's and burn it how do i send it over the net? I doesn't matter if it take a few hours. Are there any programs out there? I know of FTP but have no clue how to set one up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Preacher December 13, 2006 Share Preacher Member December 13, 2006 xfire, yahoo instant messenger ect is an easy unobtrusive way to get-R -Dun Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZesteR December 13, 2006 Share ZesteR Member December 13, 2006 that would take forever and you'd have to hope no1 disconnects. also restarting one doesnt always come out great. 40 gig file, can you compress it ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Preacher December 13, 2006 Share Preacher Member December 13, 2006 for what it's worth, it is still prolly the easiest way without setting up an ftp site or something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vovik December 13, 2006 Share Vovik Member December 13, 2006 megaupload, rapidshare, fileshare, filefront try those.....but then.....40 gigs? thats a LOT. Look into Blu Ray or maybe an iPod? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stutters December 13, 2006 Share stutters GC Alumni December 13, 2006 see mags, i told you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mookie December 13, 2006 Share mookie GC Alumni December 13, 2006 To move 40 gigs you're looking at about half a day if you have 10mbps upstream. Your best bet is probably to burn it to DVDs and send them in the mail. If you need to move it over the Internet, you'll want a program that can resume the transfer if it gets interrupted. The only thing I could personally recommend is DirectConnect (dcpp.net), which is not very user-friendly but is pretty reliable. I'll be on AIM later if you want to have a go at that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cujo December 13, 2006 Share Cujo Member December 13, 2006 buy a hard drive. put it on there. send it in the mail. then get the person to send it back once they take the data. then you have a new hard drive for your computer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt. Slaughterâ„¢-TopBrass December 13, 2006 Share Sgt. Slaughterâ„¢-TopBrass Member December 13, 2006 40 gigs? Yikes! I would go with preacher try AIM, or Trillions file transfer option first. If that doesn't work then you best bet is to compress the data and put it on some dvds and USPS to the person. P.S. 40 Gigs!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShadowDog December 13, 2006 Share ShadowDog Member December 13, 2006 Mags... we told you to stop uploading porn! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max67 December 13, 2006 Share Max67 Member December 13, 2006 Mags... we told you to stop uploading porn! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-=SKArface=- December 13, 2006 Share -=SKArface=- Member December 13, 2006 40G is a very large file (if it is indeed a single file) many applications may have a 4G filesize limit. You may need to rar the file and then split it into more manageable chunks. If it's several files then you may be ok. 1) FTP You should be able to find a free FTP server to run on your computer. The person on the other end would need a decent FTP client to download it. I know windows comes with a command line FTP client, but I don't know if it supports auto resume etc. I've used ncftp under *nix as a client, it works pretty well. You may be able to get a decent free ftp server using something like Cygwin. 2) scp - scp is short for secure copy. It is related to ssh (secure shell). Again, you'd need to get an ssh server running on your box. Cygwin should have one available. WinSCP is a great client, supports auto-resume, bandwidth throttling etc. 3) Run a webserver on your desktop (apache is free) and make that file available via the webserver. The other end could retrieve the file using a web-browser. 4) rsync over ssh - this one is a little more complicated, but if you're transferring a large directory of files it is a very good way to go. (I use this to backup my windows box to my linux box). Rsync is a program designed to keep two directories syncronized. You can tell it to transfer the files via ssh (or rsh). It supports md5sums after copy (to ensure nothing got corrupted) as well as partial file completeion. If you have a directory of files you want to copy to another computer I'd definately go with rsync. The scenario where this works well is: You have a directory of files a friend of yours wants. You may add files to that directory over time, your friend would want those too. Rsync is smart enought to only transfer the missing/updated files. Good way to share out directories of pictures etc. I've only tried to do any of this type of stuff with *nix, under windows Cygwin is a great way to get unix like functionality on your desktop. Most, if not all, of the things I mentioned above are available for free using Cygwin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stutters December 13, 2006 Share stutters GC Alumni December 13, 2006 buy a hard drive. put it on there. send it in the mail. then get the person to send it back once they take the data. then you have a new hard drive for your computer.roffle + high fives Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
discom December 13, 2006 Share discom Member December 13, 2006 buy a hard drive. put it on there. send it in the mail. then get the person to send it back once they take the data. then you have a new hard drive for your computer. thats what i was gunna say. You can get an 80 gig for $40 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Soapdish December 13, 2006 Share Nick Soapdish Member December 13, 2006 but what if you wanted to send 100 gbs?!?!?!?!?!!??!!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Metallurgic December 14, 2006 Share Metallurgic Member December 14, 2006 There will be no easy way to send that large a file over a p2p network. The only solution I can think of would be to use a FTP program. It would take many days to send the file though. It would be faster to mail a HDD like someone posted above. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cujo December 14, 2006 Share Cujo Member December 14, 2006 you could always torrent it. if it's not something private then you could post it up on some torrent site. or even host your own torrent server. i can't believe no one else thought of this. then you can stop when you want to play cs and then start it up again when you're done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stutters December 14, 2006 Share stutters GC Alumni December 14, 2006 you could always torrent it.i just got done talking mags through router pinholes 101, and utorrent 201. he already went on to creating torrents, but we're not quite to public trackers. soapy is next, but he always tries to talk quantum physics instead of port forwarding. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Soapdish December 14, 2006 Share Nick Soapdish Member December 14, 2006 (edited) man i thought port forwarding and Schroedinger's equation went hand in hand?!?! but torrent would be great if someone has the time to walk me through it. Edited December 14, 2006 by Nick Soapdish Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShadowDog December 14, 2006 Share ShadowDog Member December 14, 2006 i was reading down this and was thinking torrenting, and as soon as it popped in my head, i saw Cujo's post about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kruten December 14, 2006 Share Kruten Member December 14, 2006 but what if you wanted to send 100 gbs?!?!?!?!?!!??!!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?! 200-250gb hard drives cost about the same. From what I've seen, all the messaging programs have a very low transfer limit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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