Sending AVI as email attachment

billywhizz

For future reference if anyone come across this thread, https://www.yousendit.com will email large files from you to a stated recipient, they receive an email and a download link. Simple and free.

bat999

Also do some arithmetic.
Figure out just how long it would take to upload 147MB of data to anywhere.
In my case, it would take well over 40 minutes (with an upload speed of 60KB/s).
:cool:

aliEnRIK

bat999 wrote: »

Also do some arithmetic.
Figure out just how long it would take to upload 147MB of data to anywhere.
In my case, it would take well over 40 minutes (with an upload speed of 60KB/s).
:cool:

The net would slow to a crawl too

maggiesoop

Thanks to all.... here was me thinking new technology was was a push of a button!

custardy

maggiesoop wrote: »

Thanks to all.... here was me thinking new technology was was a push of a button!

thing is,email isnt new and was never designed for file transfers
plenty of other options/methods with some listed on this thread

bat999

custardy wrote: »

plenty of other options/methods with some listed on this thread

But they all require you to upload 147MB of data.
There's no way round that.

custardy

bat999 wrote: »

But they all require you to upload 147MB of data.
There's no way round that.

yeah well thats down to the uploaders connection,plus you could rar the file down for some methods

bat999

custardy wrote: »

plus you could rar the file down for some methods

What does that mean?

Toxteth_OGrady

Rather than rar/zip compress it with a video codec like DivX and you'll probably get it down below 20 MB

DVardysShadow

bat999 wrote: »

What does that mean?

rar is an archive compression format.