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On occasion I find myself needing to send a file at least a few gigabytes in size to a friend across our slow ISPs but haven't found a satisfying solution. I usually end up creating a private torrent with the announce address of my own IP. Even though it's slow - it basically never reaches my max upload speed for some reason, it is at least resilient if there are ever any network glitches.

Does anyone else face this same challenge?

EDIT: Thank you for the awesome suggestions! I have some homework to do on these

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 23 hours ago

Upload to Proton Drive > Create share link > Share link

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

I used vaultwarden just the other day for this purpose. I mean, I use vaultwarden daily as a password manager, but it also has secure file transfer.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

If its a file from my seedbox: Direct share link (optional pw)
Local file: OneDrive

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

My use case is a bit different than yours but still worth mentioning, I think; I have Sharry running in Docker and it makes sharing and receiving files super easy. All downloads and uploads are resumable so they work well even in unstable networks.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

I have a minio instance that I use to distribute files

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Not sure if this works for you but I didnt see it mentioned. I use plex for my media server, so I would just put whatever it is on there and then someone else can log in remotely and download it through the app on their mobile, and I think also via the website too.

I know this works if the person is downloading from android but haven't tested otherwise.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That should work for media files at least, but I believe they'll also need Plex pass to be able to download anything.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Should be able to do that with Jellyfin, no Plex/Plex Pass needed (if you really want to use media software for this).

That said I suspect your current method with creating a torrent to share is much more resilient when dealing with choppy internet connections. With Jellyfin/Plex it's more of a direct download situation, not sure if either can resume broken downloads.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Reminds me I had been needing to find something for this too. Looks like I had thought about using Croc.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Just share the folder on soulseek. Probably not advisable for any sensitive information though xD

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Wormhole.app, can't recall if they have a limit atm

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I use wormhole, but when I've wanted to use that website for receiving, I can never tell how to do it.

Can you actually use that site to receive files?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So just like when you send a file you fwd a link, someone tfering files to you must provide the link. They expire in a maximum of 24 hours though so do be aware of that.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

Whoever uploaded them has to send you a link to them. It does have a limit of 10gb, but it's pretty reliable in my experience.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago
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i like zipline but i use it for smaller files where download resumability is not a key factor

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

I tell them to start their Nextcloud client. Or if they don't have it, give them the share link.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

I host pingvin for people to send stuff to me. To send, usually I'll just move the file into a folder that exposed to Nginx with indexing and send that link. Otherwise I'll also just use my pingvin instance.

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