Joined on 08-20-2001
San Francisco, CA and the web
I recently had a situation where I had to share a video file with several other people. I'm curious, what service do any of you use to share large media files? I used
Pando, which is a free peer-to-peer file sharing service. It worked reasonably well, but I'm wondering what other options are out there. Anyone have a file-sharing service they particularly recommend?
Best,
Megan
FTP.
Create an additional user for the account. Assign permissions to specific folder (it becomes their FTP site basically)
Send uname and pwd (and link to FTP client FileZilla if they don't have one)
Upload and share.
Fast, free and easy.
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Joined on 02-18-2004
New Hampshire
Megan, I have recently stumbled across
yousendit. The users you want to share the file with get emailed a link to the file and they can download it. FTP is another good suggestion, but requires intervention from your IT department and is not as quick and easy to set up.
Even though I am more than capable of setting up a directory for FTP on one of my domains, I prefer to use Pando because it is a no brainer for moving large files.
Joined on 07-12-2007
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A new one I've been using lately is
Drop.io. As with the others, it's completely free for 100Mb ($10/yr. gets you 1Gb) and you can fax documents to and from it call and leave voicemails and it has it's own RSS feed. It's been very handy for us, and we're still figuring out new ways it can be used all the time.
Joined on 02-07-2005
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We use MegaUpload.com for files up to 500MB. You upload the file, and send a link and password to the recipients, who then download them. $15 for 2 months, I believe there is a free version for smaller files.
Joined on 04-23-2004
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We also use yousendit.com for our foodbank. Up to 100MB free and simple, nothing at all to set up. Even our non technical senior volunteers can use it from home.
Joined on 01-24-2007
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Hi have a couple that I use mostly either DropSend.com or filedropper.com both are free and FileDropper has a 5GB limit. Might take you a week to upload it though :)
Joined on 05-08-2008
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If you don't need to keep the file available for a long time, I like to use drop.io (http://drop.io). It's especially nice because you don't need an account or login. Stuff is deleted after a period of inactivity, though.
Joined on 05-11-2008
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I've used Groove and Hello.
Groove is popular with emergency first responders because it permitted individuals to quickly create "a space" to share documents, notes, forums using p2p.
Groove is now owned by Microsoft and costs several hundred $ a copy.
Another freebie was hello. Hello was designed for p2p photo sharing, but you could drag other types of files as well. Google bought hello 4 years ago, but development was shelved. Hello is shutting down on May 15th, 2008.
A groove clone called collabra is available, but I have not tried it.
Using torrents is not particularly reliable, which is why pando might succeed.
-chris
Joined on 03-20-2006
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Gary, Meagan et al,
I also recently ran into a similar situation attempting to send a really large file. My colleague Sue Stine from
CADCA told me about
yousendit and it worked great. I used it again yesterday to send a draft presentation file to a colleague and it went through flawlessly on a free account. Very easy to use.
Looks like there are many similar services that other people have found and are using successfully - thanks for sharing them.
LaDonna Coy
Learning for Change
coyenator@gmail.com