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

StinkyPinky

StinkyPinky

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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?
 
Originally posted by: StinkyPinky
Originally posted by: tasmanian
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Holy ballsack of sweet justice. And that's free? With no nasty surprises for the person on the other end?
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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.
 
Originally posted by: StinkyPinky
Originally posted by: tasmanian
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Holy ballsack of sweet justice. And that's free? With no nasty surprises for the person on the other end?
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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.
 
Originally posted by: Locut0s
Originally posted by: StinkyPinky
Originally posted by: tasmanian
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Holy ballsack of sweet justice. And that's free? With no nasty surprises for the person on the other end?
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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.
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As long as that site is up for the next few days, I don't mind 😉
 
Originally posted by: StinkyPinky
Originally posted by: Locut0s
Originally posted by: StinkyPinky
Originally posted by: tasmanian
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Holy ballsack of sweet justice. And that's free? With no nasty surprises for the person on the other end?
Click to expand...

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.
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As long as that site is up for the next few days, I don't mind 😉
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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.
 
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.
 
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.
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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.
 
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.
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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.
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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
 
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.
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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.
 
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/
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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)
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This. When the question is "How do I transfer files?", the correct answer is almost always "use the File Transfer Protocol".
 
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