Sending large files

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A band has recently got in touch with me about a session I did with them over a year ago, and they're looking for the Pro Tools session. They don't live near me. The session is over 3GB in size. I can throw them all into a single (or multiple) .rar file, but I need a way of sending it over to them. Most sites I've looked at have upload/download limits.

Anybody know of any way I can send this stuff over to them?
 
ez_willis said:
you don't need an account. UL it, then send the url it gives you.
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Cool. I'm goin ahead with Rapidshare. Talkin to my dad there, seems to be the way to go.

Thanks Ez.

Feel free to throw up one of your famous essays :laughings:
 
Wow, I never knew there were services that would handle so much data for free!

Also, you can burn it to DVD-R and mail it or, if you don't have a DVD writer in your computer, do the same with a 4GB USB drive. :)

There are some entertaining anecdotes in this Wikipedia article about moving lots of data via removable media:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sneakernet
 
FLYcrash said:
Also, you can burn it to DVD-R and mail it or, if you don't have a DVD writer in your computer, do the same with a 4GB USB drive.
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why on earth would you do that when you can upload it to a free website and send a url in a few minutes?
 
You could also try using P2P torrent. That is what it is made for, until some assholes thought is was ok to use it for pirating.
 
rfahey86 said:
You could also try using P2P torrent. That is what it is made for, until some assholes thought is was ok to use it for pirating.
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:laughings: :laughings:

for the record, megaupload is great for that, too. go ahead and do a search. :laughings:
 
If it were me I would pack my computer up in a backpack, get on my bicycle and deliver it in person. There's something to be said about delivering stuff in person. Maybe have a singing telegram ready when you arrive.




But that's just me. :laughings::laughings::laughings:
 
ez_willis said:
why on earth would you do that when you can upload it to a free website and send a url in a few minutes?
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well only thing i can think of is that when you have really poor connection then it will be pain in the a*s to upload 3gb. And besides that, if the band has slow connection then it would be also pain in the a*s to download it.
P2P seems to be the best option so far.
 
ez_willis said:
why on earth would you do that when you can upload it to a free website and send a url in a few minutes?
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Because having loads of options makes seemingly redundant actions irresistable ? :D

Armistice said:
... back when we were young...
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When my son was 5 or 6, he said to me "Dad, was the world in black and white when you were young ?".
 
ez_willis said:
why on earth would you do that when you can upload it to a free website and send a url in a few minutes?
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The issue is bandwidth. To send 3.5 GB of data at 200 KB/s (a decent DSL bandwidth for upload; often mine is much slower) takes about 5 hours. And you'll have to hope that the computer, connection, router, etc. all work flawlessly for the whole period. I don't have experience with the P2P software; maybe it breaks up the file(s) to make the process more fault-tolerant. But still, a 5-hour, 3+ gig upload verges on a major task in my eyes, one that starts to get competition from slipping a DVD-R in an envelope.

If you have an expensive, high-end broadband connection, that changes the equation a lot for a few GB, but that isn't typical equipment in the typical household.
 
I'm saying that the normal consumer broadband (DSL and cable) costing less than $50 per month is going to take hours.

By "high-end broadband" I mean professional-grade connections like a T1 line. Yes, sending 3 GB over a T1 line is a few minute affair, but those lines start in the neighborhood of $500 per month.
 
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