[tregg]

How do people in multimedia send large video or audio files over the internet? email only allows 25 mb

[ElfBane]

tregg, on 15 November 2011 - 07:02 AM, said:

How do people in multimedia send large video or audio files over the internet? email only allows 25 mb

You gotta pay for it!! Businesses use a T1 connection or better. Here is an article on the various flavors of T type connections http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-carrier .

[A41202813]

@tregg

You Can Use A 'SPLITTER' Program:

A - It Can Slice Large ( L ) Files Into Any Number Of Smaller ( S ) Ones,

B - You Can Then Send The ( S ) Files One By One, If Necessary,

C - It Can Reconstitute The Original ( L ) File Using All The ( S ) Ones.

There Are Several Free 'SPLITTER' Programs In The 'VERSIONTRACKER / DOWNLOAD / CNET' Site.

Good Luck.

[A41202813]

@tregg

Another Option On Yesterdays News:

http://www.pcworld.c...arge_files.html

[coastie65]

You may also be able to use .rar files to do that or Zip ( Compressed ) files.

This post has been edited by coastie65: 15 November 2011 - 09:37 AM

[Dellinsp531]

You can upload the file to a share site that have limit of 1 GB for free accounts like dropbox, rapidshare,etc. You can use zip or rar or 7zip compressing before you upload and put a password on it if it is private.

Another options would be setting up an FTP site from your computer if your internet speed is good.

Also youtube can be used for vidoes.

[waldojim]

Use an online storage site, like Microsoft Live Drive. There you can upload 25GB of data, and make it available to anyone for free. Other options include 4share, rapid share, and a host of other similar sites. The others are considerably more annoying though.

NO you do NOT need a T-anything pipe to do what you want. No T1, no T3, no OC, no Gig-E.

[tregg]

tregg, on 15 November 2011 - 07:02 AM, said:

How do people in multimedia send large video or audio files over the internet? email only allows 25 mb

Thanks for those answers! Very helpful!

[LiveBrianD]

Sadly, skydrive only allows 50MB per file, a nice 25GB total. Dropbox has no per-file limit, but a 2GB total limit. (note: if a friend creates an account with your dropbox link or you create yours using someone else's, you get an extra 250MB of storage, up to 8GB. Here's mine: http://db.tt/G8ELwEI ) What I do for backup is put all my files in an encrypted 7z archive that's split into 50MB pieces (type 50M into the split box to do this), and then upload each bit - then, open one of them, and with all in the same folder, it lets you extract the file.

For those other file sharing sites, mediafire.com is pretty good. I've never used rapidshare because it forces free users to wait and I hate it. Ditto for most other file sharing sites (mediafire doesn't seem to do this)

[ju8191]

Hey,

I found a solution for sending big files by email. I use ForgetBox : link

It is free, there is no size limitation and it runs in background.

And in the recent versions, you can use it in gmail !

[ReviverSoft]

If your company has some web space it can spare, just upload it there and offer the end user (Client) the download link.

Alternatively, you could use services like Dropbox and other online file storage services to share your media.

The best part is you can always delete stuff when you're done with them and re-use the space.

[gdltek1]

tregg, on 15 November 2011 - 07:02 AM, said:

How do people in multimedia send large video or audio files over the internet? email only allows 25 mb

There are several ways to get large media from one node to another on a non-contiguous network (i.e. over the internet).

1. SELF-HOSTING - Have one site host the media on a server. There are several protocols that can be used to host files: FTP, SFTP, SSH, HTTP, etc. The drawback of this is that it requires knowledge of both IP's and requires that you are able to host a server (some ISP's block common server ports). Also, there is the risk of random person accessing your server if it is wide-open.

2. IRC - People have been and still do use Internet Relay Chat to send files back and forth fairly reliably and securely. It's relatively easy, just find a good client, log into an IRC server farm, open a channel (you can even password protect it). Other party logs into same server, joins channel, and you initiate file transfer to them. The benefits of this method is that it limits the exposure of either party and doesn't require any special technical knowlege. The drawbacks are that IRC farms have a tendency to be rather flaky and unstable. It would really suck if you were 90% through a transfer and then 'NET SPLIT!' 0_0

3. P2P - Oddly enough, even though peer-to-peer clients have been given a bad rap with the whole "anti-pirating" crusade, p2p protocols were originally developed for the sole purpose of legally being able to efficiently share files in a distributed manner just like you mention. Though you wouldn't know it, protocols like bittorrent and gnutella are being used to this day by businesses to distribute files. It is fast, efficient, cost effective, non-resource intensive and fault tolerant. Of course it is also completely insecure unless you put some sort of security on the file itself like encryption.

The trick to harnessing the power of p2p software to get a particular file to another specific person or persons from among the BILLIONS of files being shared on the network is in the name. Pick an impossibly unique name, maybe just a random string of 63 letters and numbers, rename your file with this name, and then give this to the other party to search for. The chances of another file having the same name as your file are like 1 in some ridiculously long number represented by a series of numbers and letters. Viola! Instant end-to-end sharing.