Hello,
I’m trying to send something to my gf’s friend (~50gb)
I tried creating my own torrent and was able to dl it on another device, but on her machine it stayed at 0% and wouldn’t let me connect to seed
Is FTP a good option? I set up a proxmox server last night but I don’t really know what I’m doing yet
Any guidance greatly appreciated, thanks.
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Just to throw another option into the mix:
Maybe create a VPN connection with wireguard, then you can just transfer them however you’d do it in a local network? Tailscale would be an easy solution to achieve this.
Torrent.
I think file.pizza might be a good solution
Btw: Might be that you’re behind a NAT (router) and that’s why bittorrent doesn’t connect. You’d need to figure out which port your torrent client is configured to listen on and then do “port forwarding” of that port to your machine in the router you got from your ISP. Or use something like UPnP that does this automatically.
Not sure if that applies in your case and it’s unsolicited advice… But a fairly common issue with bittorrent.
maybe SimpleHTTPServer (python) on the host and
curl -C
on the other machine?Create a multi-part archive (…probably about 250 parts…) with a strong password, upload each part to whatever the current equivalent to Megaupload is, and let them download it at their leisure.
With no accounts on either end, should only take about three months for each to be complete.
Alternatively, you could put it on a thumb drive and drive it over if they live fairly close.
you could put it on a thumb drive and drive it over if they live fairly close
or drop it in the mail if they dont.
There are website services where you both stay online and transfer directly.
There could be direct peer to peer transfer tools that are more robust.
If you want to go through a file transfer/hoster
- no limit https://gofile.io/
- 300 GB limit https://1fichier.com/
There’s some more, those are the top two in my bookmarks.
You’d do good of encrypting/7z-passwording if you don’t want others to see the content, just to make sure not to have to trust the hoster.
I would use Resilio Sync. It uses bittorrent under the hood. https://www.resilio.com/individuals/
Why not just make it a torrent file then and let it seed? I don’t see why paying for a service is required in this instance.
1 - Its not paid for personal use.
2 - OP said it can’t seed. Resilio have a discover helper service fot this situations.
Because he’s having trouble getting it to connect that way, and for reasons I don’t completely understand, Resilio Sync connections seem to be quicker and more reliable than using a traditional tracker as the only seed.
for reasons I don’t completely understand, Resilio Sync connections seem to be quicker and more reliable
Resilio runs a “relay” server to facilitate connections where neither peer has properly set up port forwarding. Only downside of Resilio is its not open source, so you just kinda have to take their privacy policy at face value. As long as op isn’t sending something super sensitive though, it probably is no big deal.
Don’t put FTP on the Internet if you don’t know how to secure it.
If you’re relatively nearby, you could just use a flash drive. Or mail one. If not, the other comments have good suggestions.
I use Syncthing for this things, you can even set a folder and keep it in sync with multiple users because it uses P2P
yep, id use sftp. my mail provider (proton) also gives me like 500gb in a ‘drive’ which is great for transfers like this
Syncthing
Easiest and most secure way? Mail (or hand deliver) a flash drive. That’s how they transfer data between super computers and data centers. (AWS even has dedicated trucks to do it)
Now I wonder how much bandwith do post offices have theoretically
Randall did the math on this one: https://what-if.xkcd.com/31/
He assumes 64 GB microsd cards, if you use 1 TB ones, you could send 16 times more.
This is awesome, of course it’s xkdc. Thanks, now I can rest easy