[time-nuts] How best to exchange Large files?

Robert Darlington rdarlington at gmail.com
Tue Feb 21 22:28:45 UTC 2012


Typically you can resume ftp transfers with the "reget" command.  It
has to be implemented on the server.

There are tons of file sharing services on the web that are free.  Why
go back to the 1980s?

-Bob

On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 3:21 PM, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R
<caf at omen.com> wrote:
> I use ZMODEM over telnet to upload wi-fi survey files to Mother.
>
>
> On 02/21/2012 02:16 PM, ehydra wrote:
>>
>> I think most users have ADSL, where the problem is the low upload
>> bandwidth. If the connection drops, the whole file is lost.
>>
>> The download is much faster and so there is a good change to save the
>> whole file.
>> If not:
>> If the web-browser and the file-owning server understand reconect, one can
>> retry the download and then the old file merges with the new part without
>> further effort.
>>
>> So I wonder if FTP does it the same way? Any experience?
>>
>>
>> My problem is that I want to send a big file to another person, but my
>> internet upload bandwidth is way to small.
>>
>> Any suggestions? I run a web-server with PHP and a FTP-server.
>>
>> As I learned from the thread a torrent-app is not enough. Transfering via
>> POP3 looks impossible because seldom the two email-server will have both
>> account limitations beyond 100MB.
>>
>> cheers -
>> Henry
>>
>>
>> David J Taylor schrieb:
>>>>
>>>> Hi:
>>>>
>>>> I've used:
>>>> https://www.yousendit.com/
>>>> with no problems.
>>>>
>>>> Have Fun,
>>>>
>>>> Brooke Clarke
>>>
>>>
>>> .. but the limit on that service has changed from 100 MB down to 50 MB,
>>> making it rather less useful to me.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> David
>>
>>
>
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