On occasion I find myself needing to send a file at least a few gigabytes in size to a friend across our slow ISPs but haven’t found a satisfying solution. I usually end up creating a private torrent with the announce address of my own IP. Even though it’s slow - it basically never reaches my max upload speed for some reason, it is at least resilient if there are ever any network glitches.

Does anyone else face this same challenge?

EDIT: Thank you for the awesome suggestions! I have some homework to do on these

  • UnH1ng3d@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    15 hours ago

    I use wormhole, but when I’ve wanted to use that website for receiving, I can never tell how to do it.

    Can you actually use that site to receive files?

    • JigglySackles@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      12 hours ago

      So just like when you send a file you fwd a link, someone tfering files to you must provide the link. They expire in a maximum of 24 hours though so do be aware of that.

    • SilentKnightOwl@slrpnk.netEnglish
      3·
      15 hours ago

      Whoever uploaded them has to send you a link to them. It does have a limit of 10gb, but its pretty reliable I’m my experience.

      • UnH1ng3d@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        45 seconds ago

        Ahh, I see. I’ve got a wormhole app on my phone which I was trying to use to send from. I guess it just can’t work with that website. Thanks