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In 2018, transferring large files over the internet is still not exactly straightforward. Few years ago Skype was excellent for P2P transfers of very large file
by kozak 8y ago
In 2018, transferring large files over the internet is still not exactly straightforward. Few years ago Skype was excellent for P2P transfers of very large files, but since then they removed this feature, and today Skype's file transfer limits are ridiculously low. Using Dropbox or Google Drive for that requires a pre-paid amount of cloud storage space: you can't really stream anything directly with any well-known widely available layman tool.
- Asooka 8y agoThere are a couple that use webrtc for p2p transfers. The one I know and use is https://www.sharedrop.io/ https://www.sharedrop.io/ (needs javascript, obviously).
- madshiva 8y agotransfer file with Skype? are you kidding? You had plenty of free stream service... Skype is just a bloatware/malware.
- tyingq 8y agoNot p2p, and limited to 1GB files, but Firefox Send works well. You can also pair it with minio and self host it.
- rataata_jr 8y agoP2P... Torrent?
- kozak 8y agoNot a trivial layman's tool (and even less trivial to make private transfers secure enough).
- Luc 8y agoOnce it's set up https://syncthing.net/ https://syncthing.net/ works transparently. Just drop files into a designated folder and they'll magically appear on the corresponding folder on the other machine.
- gambiting 8y agoI think OP means sending files to someone over the internet. Like, if I wanted to send you, a complete stranger, something over the internet, then the options we could use are very limited. There's pretty much nothing that works on p2p basis, I'd have to upload it to something like google drive or mega first. Edit: Ok, I read a bit more about the thing that you sent and it looks like it does actually fulfil that particular need. Very interesting!
- WrtCdEvrydy 8y agohttps://www.file.io/ https://www.file.io/ This is a nice one, throw it up there and they give you a link, link works once.
- a1369209993 8y ago1: Open your bittorrent client. 2: Select File>New, or "Create new torrent", or whatever. 3: Pick the desired source file. 4: Create the torrent (and open it and make sure the source file is in the destination folder if your client didn't do that on it's own (you want "download finished, seeding to 0 peers")). 5: Right click>copy magnet link, then paste into whereever. 6: Other person downloads the file just like with any other magnet link. It's obnoxiously unergonomic and rather slow (especially if your clients have to track down each other's IP addresses via DHT), but it's not actually hard.
- mschuster91 8y agoTorrents are nice but often blocked or severely throttled in corp/university/cheap internet environments.
- gandalfian 8y agohttps://xkcd.com/949/ https://xkcd.com/949/ Though between my family members teamviewer has a basic file transfer mode that works quite well, pc to pc, assuming both parties have it installed.
- ihm 8y agoThere's https://file.pizza https://file.pizza which uses WebRTC for an easy to use peer-to-peer transfer service.
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- cdoxsey 8y agoI love file.pizza (and its friends) but they're not great for large files. It has to buffer the whole thing in memory.
- kodablah 8y agoIs this a project limitation or a tech limitation? I am familiar w/ browser efforts to impl web streams, I wonder if that would help.