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[singist]

A friend of mine has some data that he wants me to have but needs to upload it somewhere for me to download. it is somewhere near 1gig in size too; any ideas how to do this without expensive hosting?


All assistance gratefully received.

 

[Frapple]

You could try letting him make a torrent of the files, then stick it on a public tracker for you to download.

Here's a guide for utorrent.

uTorrent

1. File > Create new Torrent (or CTRL + N)
2. Select the files and or directories

3. Trackers: This is probably the hard part for most people. But it’s pretty easy, just put in one of the popular public trackers. You can use one or more trackers, but in general one is enough.

Here are some good trackers you can use:

http://open.tracker.thepiratebay.org/announce
http://www.torrent-downloads.to:2710/announce
http://denis.stalker.h3q.com:6969/announce
udp://denis.stalker.h3q.com:6969/announce
http://www.sumotracker.com/announce

Put one of these in the tracker box

4. Do NOT tick the private torrent box (unless you’re using a private tracker)

5. Save the torrent and send it to your friends

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[pc-modd]

split it into parts using winrar and upload to rapidshare.com?

 

[marc2003]

get them to install a web/ftp server on their own pc. at least the transfer can be done in one go. they'd still have to leave their pc on for hours to upload files that big, so you might as well cut out the middle man and get it direct.

 

[Deanje]

Possibly create a Gmail account you can both access and use the storage there?

 

[chris74]

burn it onto a dvd and give it to you on person or by post.

Job done.