Transferring large files over the net

[Perryg114]

What is the best way for transferring large files from one computer to another? Microsoft sky drive has a 50M file limitation (useless). I have a web sight that can handle the volume but ftp is agonizingly slow. Yahoo is hosting the web space. Yahoo maybe putting restrictions on upload speed to keep me from using too much bandwidth. All I really need is a place to store data long enough to transfer if from a temporary holding bin to another computer. Right now all I am trying to do is transfer some home movies from my computer to my folks computer in another state. The files are around 1 G in size. If there is a way to do a direct file transfer from computer A to computer B that would be great as well.

Perry

 

[lxskllr]

Maybe you could use bittorrent. Setup a private torrent, and send the files that way.

 

[Perryg114]

I will look into that. I was thinking of something like being able to access my files from a remote computer and just copy them from one directory on machine A to a directory on machine B. Like I do on my LAN but being able to do this over the net. I would assume I would have to log into my remote machine to do this but how do you do it. There are programs like Logmein.com that will do it for a price. Maybe some sort of host your own websight thing would work.

Perry

 

[lxskllr]

I don't know how you'd do it, but a ftp server might work. Setup the computer as a server, then log in to grab the files..

Edit:

Check this page... http://lifehacker.com/339887/b...-server-with-filezilla

Google "setup ftp server" for more results.

 

[Perryg114]

Here are some pretty good online instructions that I found that should help. I have not tried it yet but it looks like it should work.

http://www.smallbusinesscomput...er/article.php/3077081

http://www.smallbusinesscomput...er/article.php/3080901


Perry

 

[sswingle]

I use Hamachi from www.logmein.com For personal use its free.
Basically its a VPN client. Install the app on both of your systems and setup a password for your "network". Then you can see each system just like you were in the same LAN.