What's a good free service to send large files over the internet

[StinkyPinky]

I need to send a 60 and 50 meg file to a mostly computer newbie in the next day or so? Email is out of course, and this person wont know anything about torrents.

Is there any free service online that allows you to upload files and then send the link to the other person?

Is rapidshare free? And how long will they let you keep the files there?

 

[PHiuR]

aol instant messenger?

 

[Cattlegod]

set your computer up as a website server, then send him your link to the file.

 

[tasmanian]

Link

 

[StinkyPinky]

Originally posted by: tasmanian
Link

Holy ballsack of sweet justice. And that's free? With no nasty surprises for the person on the other end?

 

[tasmanian]

Originally posted by: StinkyPinky

Originally posted by: tasmanian
Link

Holy ballsack of sweet justice. And that's free? With no nasty surprises for the person on the other end?

Yes its free, very simple to use. I tried to upload a 2 gig file in ie but it didn't like it. Smaller files were fine.

 

[Locut0s]

Originally posted by: StinkyPinky

Originally posted by: tasmanian
Link

Holy ballsack of sweet justice. And that's free? With no nasty surprises for the person on the other end?

Not surprised I've stumbled across dozens of these files sharing sites, many of which offer surprisingly large file sizes. How long any one of them will be around is another question though.

 

[StinkyPinky]

Originally posted by: tasmanian

Originally posted by: StinkyPinky

Originally posted by: tasmanian
Link

Holy ballsack of sweet justice. And that's free? With no nasty surprises for the person on the other end?

Yes its free, very simple to use. I tried to upload a 2 gig file in ie but it didn't like it. Smaller files were fine.

Thanks man.

 

[StinkyPinky]

Originally posted by: Locut0s

Originally posted by: StinkyPinky

Originally posted by: tasmanian
Link

Holy ballsack of sweet justice. And that's free? With no nasty surprises for the person on the other end?

Not surprised I've stumbled across dozens of these files sharing sites, many of which offer surprisingly large file sizes. How long any one of them will be around is another question though.

As long as that site is up for the next few days, I don't mind

 

[Locut0s]

Originally posted by: StinkyPinky

Originally posted by: Locut0s

Originally posted by: StinkyPinky

Originally posted by: tasmanian
Link

Holy ballsack of sweet justice. And that's free? With no nasty surprises for the person on the other end?

Not surprised I've stumbled across dozens of these files sharing sites, many of which offer surprisingly large file sizes. How long any one of them will be around is another question though.

As long as that site is up for the next few days, I don't mind

An interesting one I came across a while back but have yet to use is Drop Box They offer desktop integration, file syncing and more.

 

[Crow550]

http://www.oosah.com/

1tb free.

 

[Eli]

AIM?
Yahoo IM?
MSN Messenger?
ICQ?

 

[gorcorps]

You don't have to understand torrents to use them. Upload it on a public tracker (pirate bay, mininova, etc) and email him the torrent file. Tell him to install utorrent and all he has to do is click on the file and it's all done for him. What tasmanian gave is better, but I'm just saying torrents aren't complicated to explain over an email.

 

[Woosta]

rsync

 

[ChaoZ]

http://www.badongo.com/

They just need to click the download button. Can't be that hard can it?

 

[Locut0s]

Originally posted by: gorcorps
You don't have to understand torrents to use them. Upload it on a public tracker (pirate bay, mininova, etc) and email him the torrent file. Tell him to install utorrent and all he has to do is click on the file and it's all done for him. What tasmanian gave is better, but I'm just saying torrents aren't complicated to explain over an email.

True but you probably shouldn't phrase it as uploading it to a public tracker as bittorrent newbs will mistakenly assume that means uploading the actual file to the server. Instead the person has to keep his own computer and bittorent client open and the other user downloads the file directly to him. Sorry just nit picking.

 

[gorcorps]

Originally posted by: Locut0s

Originally posted by: gorcorps
You don't have to understand torrents to use them. Upload it on a public tracker (pirate bay, mininova, etc) and email him the torrent file. Tell him to install utorrent and all he has to do is click on the file and it's all done for him. What tasmanian gave is better, but I'm just saying torrents aren't complicated to explain over an email.

True but you probably shouldn't phrase it as uploading it to a public tracker as bittorrent newbs will mistakenly assume that means uploading the actual file to the server. Instead the person has to keep his own computer and bittorent client open and the other user downloads the file directly to him. Sorry just nit picking.

Well I'm assuming the OP knows what he's doing with torrents. You wouldn't tell the other user about the uploading and stuff as that's nothing he has to do. All you'd need to tell him is "Here, download utorrent at this site: blah
Once that's done, open this file and it'll go: blah.torrent"

easy

 

[tasmanian]

Originally posted by: Crow550
http://www.oosah.com/

1tb free.

Awesome site. It wont let you upload exe or rar files. However if you rename them to .mp3 and upload them then you can download them and rename them back to exe or rar. Just have file extensions on.

 

[ChAoTiCpInOy]

Skydrive. Then give him a link.

 

[Leros]

http://www.pipebytes.com/

It creates a link you can send which basically sets up a direct connection between both users.

 

[MadAmos]

An interesting one I came across a while back but have yet to use is Drop Box They offer desktop integration, file syncing and more.

I have been using dropbox since it was in early beta I absolutely love it and it allows you to share a file with a private link to a public folder. It is so nice to have all my documents available at my different systems with out the sneaker net.

 

[Modelworks]

ftp ?
Set up a ftp server on your pc.
Takes 5 minutes and free.
http://filezilla-project.org/

 

[funkymatt]

Originally posted by: Modelworks
ftp ?
Set up a ftp server on your pc.
Takes 5 minutes and free.
http://filezilla-project.org/

I came in here to say this. it takes much less time than trying to get them to understand bit torrent (which was a terrible solution to this in the first place)

 

[acheron]

Originally posted by: funkymatt

Originally posted by: Modelworks
ftp ?
Set up a ftp server on your pc.
Takes 5 minutes and free.
http://filezilla-project.org/

I came in here to say this. it takes much less time than trying to get them to understand bit torrent (which was a terrible solution to this in the first place)

This. When the question is "How do I transfer files?", the correct answer is almost always "use the File Transfer Protocol".

 

[Woosta]

File transfer protocol is far from secure and is very old technology - why not scp/sftp?