Transferring large files a long way
January 22nd, 2008 by adminThis can be a real pain. What are the options?
- burn to CD/DVD, put in post. Yawn.
- use yousendit or similar public FTP services. Up speed can be a bit painful.
- upload to your own server, download from server. Do I really have enough server space to spare. A few large files and it’s stuffed.
Latest trials are using Skype for file transfers and the Mozilla plug-in AllPeers for file sharing.
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Skype was tested last night. Up speeds hovered around the 35-50 mark and, left for a number of hours, there was no drop-out. So a successful first trial. Will be doing that again. Especially as I’m moving to a faster broadband service soon (20Mb).
AllPeers next. I know you can’t wait for that one.

