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[joewho]

Hey Yall,

I was trying to send my son Steven some files from Magnolia, TX to Williamsburg, VA. Well, after about a hour of trying the following to get him the files. "I came here". "The the Holy of Holys" XCPUS.

1. Tried to email from Network Solutions webmail acct.
"NO GO" I seem to have a limit to 2 or was it 20mb, email attachment. (File was about 7-8gb.

2. While waiting for webmail to reach it's LIMIT, I tried WinZip and RAR.
"NO GO" Must have been already commpresed, made little differance

3. Thought about Torrent sites, for about a sec.

Thanks for reading this far.

How can I send and recieve large amounts of data over the net?

I would like to be able to Send/Recieve ulimited data secure.

If no good free options are around. What kind of service do I need? I will not be doing more than 10-20gb a month, but first month could be large.

Can I just setup a networked HD or Home Server somehow? I can use XP, Vista Ult, or Win 7 Ult. My Comcast cable at the cheapest bundled price which runs about $90 a month, with just Basic Cable/Net tops at 16-20mbs Download and 2-3mbs Upload. I think it is still unlimited Useage with Comcast where I'm at. I hear others are not so lucky.

As always yall, Thank You

[MeltDown]

You could try a file hosting site like rapidshare. You would encrypt the files with rar or whatever compression tool and then immediately delete them after your son downloads them. Other than that, I guess you could have rar/zip/whatever create a multi-volume archive with each piece being 2 or 3 MB and email the pieces one by one.

[joewho]

You could try a file hosting site like rapidshare. You would encrypt the files with rar or whatever compression tool and then immediately delete them after your son downloads them. Other than that, I guess you could have rar/zip/whatever create a multi-volume archive with each piece being 2 or 3 MB and email the pieces one by one.

Hey Melty,

Thanks, great Idea's. What do you think the best program or way to chop files up? Like ISO files Dvix, media files.

[MeltDown]

When you compress them with winrar, you can select a multi volume archive and tell it how big to make the pieces. I'll look when I get home and find exactly where the option is.

[joewho]

When you compress them with winrar, you can select a multi volume archive and tell it how big to make the pieces. I'll look when I get home and find exactly where the option is.

Thanks, I just picked up a key for WinZip 12.1 after I donated to this TheBigBundle | Contribute to the American Cancer Society.

Do you use the paid RAR sofware or the free RAR software? If you do, much differance?

[orangegator]

You can also try 7-Zip. It's free and works well.

[Dean]

One other option would be to pay for hosting (find some cheap hosting account either through Mike or otherwise) just to get the FTP account and FTP your files back and forth. Another option is Google Talk... it can direct-send your files. Another option is IRC... you can do a direct connection and send it to your son that way and if download gets interrupted you can resume.

[tool_462]

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[jplum1556]

Dropbox? I used that a while ago and it might work well for you. Max transfer size is 2gb per file though.

[Dean]

One other option btw would be to use S3 (Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)). You can get an app for S3 that mounts S3 disks as any other disk on your file system (find some options here: Amazon S3 Storage Tools). You and your son could both use the same account and when you drop files he can then copy them to his local directory and delete them after. Transfer/storage fees are negligible.

[MagicLess]

MeltDown's idea of breaking it down is probably going to be the easier. A 7 GB file is going to time out on too many web services. After breaking them down pretty much ANY messenger program (Yahoo, AIM, MSN) will be able to send/receive files.

Though thinking of security, MeltDown's idea probably works out the best as well, since I think that kind of data transfer requires all the pieces of the puzzle to be put back together. Miss one of the thousand of files that it'll end up being and it won't go back together.

[tool_462]

One other option btw would be to use S3 (Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)). You can get an app for S3 that mounts S3 disks as any other disk on your file system (find some options here: Amazon S3 Storage Tools). You and your son could both use the same account and when you drop files he can then copy them to his local directory and delete them after. Transfer/storage fees are negligible.

Basically what DropBox is.

When I used it during beta (with Drew and some others) it worked very well. I just don't have much use for it.

[joewho]

Dropbox? I used that a while ago and it might work well for you. Max transfer size is 2gb per file though.

Just signed up for Dropbox. It is also on the list you get. 90 days free upto 50gb. I'm uploading now, it's not fast at 100kb/sec. Will post back on download speed.

[joewho]

One other option would be to pay for hosting (find some cheap hosting account either through Mike or otherwise) just to get the FTP account and FTP your files back and forth. Another option is Google Talk... it can direct-send your files. Another option is IRC... you can do a direct connection and send it to your son that way and if download gets interrupted you can resume.

One other option btw would be to use S3 (Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)). You can get an app for S3 that mounts S3 disks as any other disk on your file system (find some options here: Amazon S3 Storage Tools). You and your son could both use the same account and when you drop files he can then copy them to his local directory and delete them after. Transfer/storage fees are negligible.

A little over my head. I'm trying Dropbox now. If the speeds stay at 100KB/sec, I'll try something else.

[joewho]

One other option would be to pay for hosting (find some cheap hosting account either through Mike or otherwise) just to get the FTP account and FTP your files back and forth. Another option is Google Talk... it can direct-send your files. Another option is IRC... you can do a direct connection and send it to your son that way and if download gets interrupted you can resume.

I should ask Mike about that. I'm guessing I would need a Domain, Hosting, and Software.$$

[YMAA]

Taking tool's idea and making it less insane, stupid, etc., you could just mail him a flash drive that has the files on it.

[Dean]

A little over my head. I'm trying Dropbox now. If the speeds stay at 100KB/sec, I'll try something else.

Well 100k a sec might be all you will ever get depending on your upload speed. What speed Internet you have?

I should ask Mike about that. I'm guessing I would need a Domain, Hosting, and Software.$$

nah to get FTP up you would connect to it via ip.

[Venom]

stick an Ubuntu LiveCD into your computer and boot it. install open-ssh server. make sure your router forwards port 22 to your machine running the ubuntu liveCD. get the external IP address off your router. create an account in the ubuntu livecd for your son. give the ip address and account credentials to your son and have him connect via WinSCP and download the files off you that way. alternatively, have your son set up the ubuntu livecd setup on his end and you connect with WinSCP and uplaod the files to him.

[SirRobin4ever]

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Actually, you might have a point. The easiest way to do this is probably to put it on a DVD and send it snail mail.

[rugrat2553]

You could see if Mike/Brent offer anything like this: Free File Hosting Made Simple - MediaFire