Sharing large files online

NiftyDigits

kwikbreaks wrote: »

Well we've moved off the original topic which was an alternative to email for passing large files to a friend. I think just about any of the suggestions made will do that for the file size the OP mentioned. Mega seems to claim the crown for free space offered if the files are large.

I took it offtopic by considering backups and none of the free cloud options will fully cover that but the real killer would be file transfer times. My images seem to be about 80GB and would take an age to download and even longer to upload. I could cut out somestuff in the backups for sure but not enough to make much of a difference and still have viable backups. For those I'll stick to my NAS raid box.

Not a problem, as the OP had his answer some time ago.
Indeed, uploading a 4GB file can take me all day and often appears to fail.
It doesn't hurt to know what is available currently.

RumRat

NiftyDigits wrote: »

How does a UK data centre help? The government will sell you out in a heartbeat.
Looks ok, though the pricing is unclear. A suggestion of £168 for two years.

So I'm off your ignore list....:rotfl:
All Governments will sell you out in a heartbeat....
The suggestion was for kwikbreaks..

NiftyDigits

RumRat wrote: »

So I'm off your ignore list....:rotfl:
All Governments will sell you out in a heartbeat....
The suggestion was for kwikbreaks..

No, you are still on it, to remind me not to waste my time to assist.

I don't have a problem with reading your posts, if they make sense.

spud17

NiftyDigits wrote: »

Not a problem, as the OP had his answer some time ago.
Indeed, uploading a 4GB file can take me all day and often appears to fail.
It doesn't hurt to know what is available currently.

Wandered off topic.
It has moved to syncing rather than sharing.

I have Sky (O2) with around 700mbps up.
I put together a mixed folder of various types of files totalling just under 2GB.
Box estimated 20+hours to upload using desktop program, double the time of the others.

I found this useful reading,

http://macography.net/2013/05/speed-test-dropbox-google-drive-box-skydrive-amazon-cloud-drive/

ayoub_2

You can Use Skype
It's free and great software for share your files with your friend :::

RumRat

NiftyDigits wrote: »

No, you are still on it, to remind me not to waste my time to assist.

I don't have a problem with reading your posts, if they make sense.

Ah! not on the proper ignore list...:)
I don't believe I've ever asked for assistance, but, carry on not assisting. Thank you.

peter999

Thanks all, I didn't need to use this in the end.

I'm sure all off the suggestions could have been used in one way or another.


But I liked the look of NiftyDigits' DataFileHost [1] suggestion, as you can quickly share a file without creating an account, just upload and get the link.

As I intended to get someone who isn't fantastic on a computer to share some files and they take forever to do things, so getting them to create an account would just be another time consuming task.

NiftyDigits

spud17 wrote: »

Wandered off topic.
It has moved to syncing rather than sharing.

I have Sky (O2) with around 700mbps up.
I put together a mixed folder of various types of files totalling just under 2GB.
Box estimated 20+hours to upload using desktop program, double the time of the others.

I found this useful reading,

http://macography.net/2013/05/speed-test-dropbox-google-drive-box-skydrive-amazon-cloud-drive/

This has got to be a mistake. Do you mean 70kB/s?

NiftyDigits

peter999 wrote: »

Thanks all, I didn't need to use this in the end.

I'm sure all off the suggestions could have been used in one way or another.


But I liked the look of NiftyDigits' DataFileHost [1] suggestion, as you can quickly share a file without creating an account, just upload and get the link.

As I intended to get someone who isn't fantastic on a computer to share some files and they take forever to do things, so getting them to create an account would just be another time consuming task.

You can do the same with Copy.com

Cycrow

Tiexen wrote: »

yes - only $29.95 month - Dropbox is free

where are you getting $29.95 a month from ?

wetransfer is free for transfering files upto 2gb, and you can do as many as you like.

you only pay for wetransferplus, but thats only $10/month