Author Topic: Sharing files over the internet (Read 358 times)

wormTK · « **on:** February 03, 2013, 12:29:35 am »

So my brother is currently attending college out of state and i would like to send him some files that are around 4gb. Do you guys have any suggestions on how to do it? Internet file sharing sites like mediafire have an upload limit and are generally slow. Torrents wont work either as his college blocks them. And I own a mac $:-\$

UberN00b · « **Reply #1 on:** February 03, 2013, 01:32:54 am »

I think you get 8 or 10 free GB of storage with DropBox + 2GB if you upload photos. That deal could only be for mobile devices though...

grinch · « **Reply #2 on:** February 03, 2013, 09:05:04 am »

Dropbox only 2GB free

A few things possible

First, his campus probably does not block "torrents" but blocks the port commonly used for torrents. Use another port

If speed is not important, you can setup an FTPD on your house machine and he can login and download. FTP is very fast, but will be limited by your home internet connection's upload speed. If you have or know of a machine with a fast internet connection(work/school?) setting up the FTPD there would be better

Sites like this are another option
https://www.transferbigfiles.com/
They have a 10gb account for $5/month, with a 14-day money-back guarantee. Which to me says you could open account, transfer your 4 or 5 gb, then cancel account and pay nothing. Not sure if that is true, so be prepared to pay $5 if you go that route

Trcx528 · « **Reply #3 on:** February 03, 2013, 10:13:41 am »

google drive has a 5gb limit

wormTK · « **Reply #4 on:** February 03, 2013, 10:18:24 am »

Grinch, I like your suggestion on FTP. Can you advise me how to set one up on my local machine? After reading your comment I was fooling around with filezila but to no avail.

grinch · « **Reply #5 on:** February 03, 2013, 10:56:23 am »

Filezilla offers an FTP client, and an FTP server. Make sure you are using the server package. That is one I would recommend, because both the server and client are open-source. The server/clinet are able to do FTPS(FTP over SSL)

If you are setting this up on linux, I can recommend a few, but I think this is going to be on windows. Besides Filezilla Server, there are not many ones I can recommend. I know of smallftpd, but have not used it
http://sourceforge.net/projects/smallftpd/
I do not think it can do FTPS, so if you want to pass files securely, this may not be the one for you.

The other ones for windows are commercial packages

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