Sending large files online - 1500 files - Total 36gb

mr tommo

mr tommo

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Anybody know the best way to send 1500 files with a total size of 36GB?

I'm a photographer and need to get some wedding photos to a friend but short of posting a hard drive I have no idea how to go about it.

(I've tried dropbox and the sync was taking 8 days!)
 
mr tommo said:
Anybody know the best way to send 1500 files with a total size of 36GB?

I'm a photographer and need to get some wedding photos to a friend but short of posting a hard drive I have no idea how to go about it.

(I've tried dropbox and the sync was taking 8 days!)
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Could try creating a torrent file with the photos and seeding them to your friend will take less than 8 days depending on you friends download speed, failing that a usb stick mailed
 
Burnsy2023 said:
It's likely your upload is the bottleneck and so any online service will have this issue. Flash drive and put it in the post.
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dropbox in general has slow upload speeds, it only uses 1/3 of my upload bandwidth. But that could just be mine
 
Thanks, looking like a flash drive in the post is going to be the best option. Typically I can only find a 32gb one lying around at the moment!
 
You can probably massively reduce that file size using 7zip with bzip2 on Ultra.

I compressed the world data and configuration for my old mineshaft server from around 20gb down to 10gb or so
 
mr tommo said:
Actually I need to nip past work today, I'll run a test there.

What would be a decent upload speed?
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For that size, to do it quickly, you would need 20Mbps+ which is easily gettable on fibre and I wouldn't be surprised if your work has even more.

I have 10Mbps upload here and would happily upload (or share directly from my machine which would be quicker) all 36GB - it'd take roughly 8 hours so would just do it overnight.
 
There are a lot of factors involved here, the two important ones being how fast can you upload and how fast can they download?

From your speedtest, it looks like you're on standard DSL which has a poor upload. If you switched to BT/Sky fiber then that should dramatically increase your upload speed (Between 10Mbps and 20Mbps).

With your new improved upload, you could place the data on a file sharing site (Mega, Dropbox, Google, etc.) and then provide the link to your customer to download (overnight, probably). That still assumes they have a decent download and are willing to leave their computer downloading for a day or so.

If you want to be more deterministic about it, simply buy some USB sticks and post them RMSD ;) In most cases, this will be fastest and lease hassle for your customer.
 
Print out the binary on paper, have him scan them the other side back into his computer.
 
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