How to send 60gb of data from 1 pc to another free?

[Brando]

Hi. My stepbrother needs to get 60gb of data from the other side of the world (middle east) to San Diego. I checked out "you send it" but theres a charge and a file size limit. Any way to just send his whole drive over the net without alot of hassle or charges? Thanks sorry for the newbie question.

[nd4spdbh2]

Hi. My stepbrother needs to get 60gb of data from the other side of the world (middle east) to San Diego. I checked out "you send it" but theres a charge and a file size limit. Any way to just send his whole drive over the net without alot of hassle or charges? Thanks sorry for the newbie question.

setup FTP on either end... and transfer that would be the simplest way to go about it. it would probably take a long time depending on connection it might be faster for him to get an external hd, load it then ship it.

[AMD Phreak]

Is he in the military and is this data something that if he is in the military, is approved or not classified?

[Brando]

FTP? Sorry I don't know much. No he's not in the military and it's not super top secret material. He's making a movie over there and has lots of footage.

[bing]

Sending it in burned discs with high priority package via courier could be a lot faster if the link is really slow. ;)











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[gangaskan]

you could try foldershare, but i dont know if there is a size limit to the amount you can upload / download to sync to a off site folder.

your better off having him get some 80-120 gig external and having it shipped out is about the quickest you will get it.

[Captain Newbie]

Sending it in burned discs with high priority package via courier could be a lot faster if the link is really slow. ;)

Federal Express.

[ShadowPho]

Depends on your connection...
As for FTP, it is REALLY easy. WinFTP.

[ccb056]

Burning it on CD and sending FedEx or DHL would probably be fastest.

He could also compress it into a bunch of smaller files and send it over FTP or VPN, but with 60GB that would probably take longer.

[Scott9027]

The FTP method would probably be really slow. I would just suggest the external hard drive method, that's what I would do.

[BenF]

I'd suggust burning everything to DVD's...that would be cheaper than an external hard drive and it would also be cheaper to ship.

[Brando]

Yeah those were the first things that came to mind. DVD's or external drive. He's going to want to back it up at some point anyhow so I think I'll suggest those as possibilities. Thanks all.

[chaseendicott]

I vote for external hard drive shipped.


That's a lot of data to try to fptp.

[Xtreme Barton]

id say send the drive with the data on it ... live with out it for 4-6 days ..when hes done have him ship it back

[-maddog-]

Encode to divx at a decent resolution and it shouldn't be too bad to send.

[PhysX]

make a torrent of the files.

[Ben333]

+1 for ftp... if you have a decent upload speed. Google "filezilla server" and download it. Then open port 21 in any firewall and make him a user name. If you have Windows XP Pro, 2000 or NT 4.0 then you should be able to use IIS

[gearhead1972]

You could try this (https://secure.logmein.com/products/hamachi/vpn.asp?lang=en) works ok for me, but I havent tried more then 2 gigs or so

[TalRW]

make a torrent of the files.

I have to go with PhysX. The thing about if you do decide to FTP it what happens if the transfer gets borked halfway through. A torrent is easy to resume/cancel at any point without loss of data while FTP if it conks out half way through you will have more problems.

[-maddog-]

Use a download manager such as dta and a midway crash won't matter. Also, you can make it into smaller chunks and reduce the file sizes using winrar.

[Captain Newbie]

I have to go with PhysX. The thing about if you do decide to FTP it what happens if the transfer gets borked halfway through. A torrent is easy to resume/cancel at any point without loss of data while FTP if it conks out half way through you will have more problems.

FTP can restart a transfer in midstream...

Make sure you encrypt it. I'm just being paranoid.

[Brando]

Wow lots of advice thanks guys.

[RoadWarrior]

No matter how fast the connection is each end, you're gonna be lucky to push 200KB/sec across the internet for a sustained period of time, without dedicated lines, and that will take 3 1/2 days to get 60GB transferred. You might see slowdowns, and "hit traffic" meaning you're only getting 50KB/sec some of the time, making a mere 100KB/sec average more likely. So even if it takes 3 or 4 hours to burn all that to DVD, a 2 or 3 day courier service could be quicker. As the saying goes "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes.."

[Brando]

I think he went ahead and got an external hd. Thanks again.