Faster upload to online storage

Fixit7 · 09-04-2016, 09:15 PM

I want to send a 1.6 Gb movie of my granddaughter's BD to my daughter.

Yahoo only lets you send 25 Mb and Dropbox said it would take 5 hrs.

Does seem like a reasonable amount of time or is there a faster way ?

Emerson · 09-04-2016, 09:22 PM

Put it on a USB stick and mail it. Or re-code the video to make it smaller.

John VV · 09-04-2016, 09:22 PM

set up a torrent
mind you will be the only seeder

google has 15 gig of storage if you use gmail

or
set up a ftp transfer and use filezilla

or

apache is in your repos
use it and set up a https file server

rtmistler · 09-06-2016, 06:59 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Emerson

Put it on a USB stick and mail it.

Agree here and this makes for another backup of a large file.

Dropbox used to have a 2G limit just in case you happen to have other stuff stored up there, or the receiver does.

Would the speed be more due to your attachment to the Internet versus Dropbox's speed capabilities?

pierre2 · 09-06-2016, 07:06 AM

+1 for using a usb stick,
& that also gives your daughter,
a permanent copy, as a bonus.

pan64 · 09-06-2016, 07:11 AM

I do not know how it works for you, but probably that 5 hours depends on your ISP and you cannot make any kind of upload faster.

Fixit7 · 09-06-2016, 07:18 AM

I decided to put them on a flash drive and give them to my daughters.