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For transferring large files between machines that don’t necessarily have the same clients installed I find file.pizza quite convenient. My understanding is it
by wodenokoto 6y ago
For transferring large files between machines that don’t necessarily have the same clients installed I find file.pizza quite convenient.
My understanding is it basically loads a JavaScript BitTorrent client and let’s you transfer using that protocol, so both ends needs to be online, but there is no file size limit, and good support on flaky connections.
There’s a few services like this, but I always find file.pizza to be the one that I remember the name of :)
https://file.pizza/ https://file.pizza/
EDIT: as other people in this thread, I am also having trouble getting file.pizza to work, in both Safari and Chrome.
Maybe it isn’t the answer it used to be.
- tpetry 6y agoHas been shared a lot on hn and i always find it funny that it is simply not working for me. I can't even transfer files between tabs in a single browser nor between browsers on the same host.
- TheNorthman 6y agoDo you have WebRTC disabled? If so, that could be it.
- amelius 6y agoPerhaps your browser stops Javascript in tabs that are not active (?)
- f1refly 6y agoI really want this to work, but every time I tried to actually use it the connection broke a few megabytes into the transfer process. When transferring larger files (>6Gb) it hogs all of my computers 16Gb memory, at which point the oom killer eventually manages to end firefox.
- maple3142 6y agoIt works for small files, but not large files (several GB). I don't know why, but I have experienced unknown failure when transmitting large files.
- roryokane 6y agoIf you’re looking for an alternative, consider https://webwormhole.io/ https://webwormhole.io/ (source: https://github.com/saljam/webwormhole https://github.com/saljam/webwormhole). I used it once to send some small files, and it worked well. I don’t know how well it handles large files.