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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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[–] JigglySackles@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] UnH1ng3d@lemmy.world 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?

[–] SilentKnightOwl@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 12 hours 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.

[–] UnH1ng3d@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Ahh, I see. I've got a wormhole app on my phone which I was trying to use to send from. I guess it just can't work with that website. Thanks

[–] JigglySackles@lemmy.world 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.

[–] UnH1ng3d@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

I was trying to send from a wormhole app, which I now see doesn't work with the website.