Sharing large files with friends...

[_Rick_]

Bittorrent. Upload the .torrent file to a private storage site(I like UbuntuOne), and give them the link.

Ideally run your own tracker, some of the fatter clients have that built-in these days.

 

[BladeVenom]

Split the file into three parts, and use three different Dropbox accounts.

 

[0roo0roo]

What's wrong with bittorrent? This is the kind of job it's ideal for.

only sorta, you are still limited by the slow trickle of your upload speed unless you are really lucky. only a people will be in such a private torrent cloud so it would take forever for it to speed up....

 

[lxskllr]

only sorta, you are still limited by the slow trickle of your upload speed unless you are really lucky. only a people will be in such a private torrent cloud so it would take forever for it to speed up....

You have that anyway. It has to be uploaded once, and while a small swarm won't give the fastest downloads, it has builtin checksumming, so you can be sure the download is correct. They could even lose power, and pickup exactly where they left off.

 

[Leros]

Thanks for the options everyone. I'm going to attempt to use torrents. I can handle it fine, its the person receiving the files that I'm unsure about. I wrote them a little tutorials, so hopefully they will be able to figure it out.

If they're not tech literate, I would just use PipeBytes. You can pretty much just email them a download link. When they start downloading, you'll start uploading to them.

 

[0roo0roo]

You have that anyway. It has to be uploaded once, and while a small swarm won't give the fastest downloads, it has builtin checksumming, so you can be sure the download is correct. They could even lose power, and pickup exactly where they left off.

yes but you trickle once to a file host, they fire hose it to your friends. by the time the bittorrent swarm speeds up on a small group, its already over... in other words one way inconveniences you, the bittorrent spreads inconvenience to everyone...

errors? http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA021385/ feed the file through multipar and generate a few par files and it will be fine. multipar is a multithreaded version of quickpar, much faster.

 

[Red Squirrel]

What's so complicated about just using a web host? To me this seems like the most simple solution and the end users don't need to do anything special either.

 

[KeithP]

You could also look at sugarsync.com. The free account gets 5GB but you can earn an additional 500MB for each person you refer.

It should not be too difficult to get some friends to sign up using you as a referral to get the storage space you need.

-KeithP

 

[waitman]

A LOT of people need someone to do everything for them. In that scenario I would remote connect in and do it all myself set everything up. That would be their option, beats hours on the phone trying to tech support and them not understanding shit! This way you have a direct visual (good luck with that) way to show them the GUI and how too use it . Next best thing to being there and sometimes much better than being there. Or, they could always pay or get someone else to do it. I pay 4 bucks a months to a newsreader service with 60 or 80 gigs bandwidth for the just in case moments, but I prefer torrents as mentioned previously.

Beware, most of those people will want a lot, from now on, for Free. Some good suggestions here. Good Luck!

 

[machomocha]

Google drive. it's awesome!

 

[HardcoreRobot]

'Google Drive Gmail Integration Allows for 10GB Attachments'

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2412534,00.asp

 

[ringtail]

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