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

  • Rekorse@sh.itjust.works
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    1 day ago

    Okay can you explain why thats a sarcastic answer? Is one of those first three steps way harder than I think it is?

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      Cause that’s not simple or easy at all. It takes a fair bit of knowledge to set up all of these things.