File Sharing (legally!) between 2 friends.

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Hi all, just looking for a bit of advice about how I can share a bunch of (huge) files with a friend who's moved to South Korea.

Basically I would like to have the ability to let him download all of the music/films that we made during our degree course (some of the DV files are circa 8 gig, so it needs to be a reliable method). Time isn't an issue in terms of leaving the computers on etc, and he'll be on a massive connection, so ideally I'd like some kind of method that will max out my upload capacity.

I did think about something like Limewire etc, but it's been so long since I used it that I have no idea.

Any ideas muchos appreciated :).
 
I would think setting up an FTP Server on the machine with the files and getting him to install FTP Client Software and log-in and download the files using FTP.

FileZilla maybe. Unsure on what to use.
 
it'll be limited to your upload speed, and uk upload speeds are cack

best off splitting the files to dvd size, and posting them over to him

or converting to xvid, then upload -how long are the files?
 
bledd. said:
it'll be limited to your upload speed, and uk upload speeds are cack

best off splitting the files to dvd size, and posting them over to him

or converting to xvid, then upload -how long are the files?
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Tbh re-rendering the DV streams in 4.7 gig chunks and mailing them is a WHOLE lot of hassle for me (they need to go as none-degraded DV). And I don't mind how long it takes to send them, I'm really just looking for a reliable method. Really we're only talking 16-18 gig I reckon, and then some music which I can render as mp3. My upload speeds are carp unfortunately, but at least (is the idea) it would be a steady upload.

Thinking ftp is the way to go?. I shall Google :), any advice on this would be much appreciated. My knowledge of ftp begins and ends with using smart ftp to upload to my webspace/site.
 
If you're going to go the FTP route BulletProof FTP server is your best bet for Windows. You can get a free trial for it and I much prefer it over Filezilla. If you've got a Linux box handy it'll probably already have all the necessary software to run an FTP server. You'd just need to configure it and open up the port on your router. :)
 
Get some semi decent FTP server software. enable resuming (in case connection drops) and wait :)

Cerberus is good free server.. think it supports resuming would have to double check.
 
I'd RAR the files and then split them into chunks for him to download via FTP, if I was you. At least that way, if his download gets interrupted, he'll just need to re-download that chunk rather than the whole lot.
 
GarethDW said:
I'd RAR the files and then split them into chunks for him to download via FTP, if I was you. At least that way, if his download gets interrupted, he'll just need to re-download that chunk rather than the whole lot.
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I agree, assuming you have the storage space for it.

In a pinch you could simply install Apache and open up your machine to the web and have him download it over HTTP, though FTP would be better.
 
BillytheImpaler said:
I agree, assuming you have the storage space for it.

In a pinch you could simply install Apache and open up your machine to the web and have him download it over HTTP, though FTP would be better.
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Downloading using FTP will be better as I have had HTTP downloads be incomplete and had to re-download. If downloading large files I always look for an FTP source first.
 
For a free ftp sever you could try SlimFTP - http://www.whitsoftdev.com/slimftpd/
It's a 58.k download including source code.
I haven't used for a while (I use Bulletproof now) and IIRC it's not the easiest of things to setup and configure, at least not as easy as BPFTP.
 
Would torrents not work?

Id rar them and then add them as a new torrent and give him the link. Any connection problems and the software will take care of it.
 
It would work. For feasability though mailing some of the stuff to him would be the quickest - most home connections have around a 30k upload speeds in the UK (so around 35 seconds to upload 1MB so approximately 10 hours to upload 1GB or 80 hours to upload 8GB).

FTP would be the most secure way of doing it though. The problem being is if you are on a DHCP address if you lost connection ad came back online your IP may have changed (you could use dyndns.org to fix this but we are now taking things too far).



M.
 
Personally I think it would be quicker to burn them to DVD and send them priority airmail. On such large files with a limited upload speed, it'd probably be faster.

Burnsy
 
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