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Tópico: Email Large Files Fast.... Advice Please

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Anyone know the best/fastest, been trying out Pando and Fileflyer, Fileflyer (with file size upto 1gb) so far appears to be the quickest at around 90kb taking roughly 90 minutes to move a file of around 350mb. so does anyone know of something faster and with the ability to have multiple recipients.

Now I already use giga but does not suit the purpose I'm needing just now, your help as usual is greatly appreciated.
 
Mensajes Tue 23 Dec 08 @ 4:33 am
I'd say make a ZIP file with several parts and upload it on Mediafire. :)
 
Have you looked at http://www.sendspace.com mate.

They have a free (lite) upload Service, which you can upload files of 300mb, Also they have a Premium service, ( I think you may need this) but I think you have to pay for :(

Once the file is uploaded you just send a link to the recipients
 
I use zShare.net? I think you can upload up to 500MB. It's completely free. It hosts the files for an unlimited time as long as they are being downloaded. They are deleted once they are not downloaded for more than 60 days. it is way faster than Pando!
 
ok what it is I'm selling some vids I've made and so far sending them is a pain in the butt, I just want to send directly to the buyers email address better still load x amount of emails in and press send, don't want it where they can tell anyone to go to a site and download from there, hope I explained myself better this time...
 
FileFlyer looks like you can enter several e-mail addresses so that shouldn't be a problem. However, if you want to protect your download links, i.e. prevent people from sharing them, you're not going to find a free solution.

The way to do this is to rent some webspace which allows you to upload your files and hire a programmer to make a script which emails your recipients a download id which is valid only once.
 
any chance you could elaborate/ give more information please Andrew
 
To enter several e-mail addresses on FileFlyer, try separating them with a semi-colon. For the hosting it yourself solution:

Instead of sending the file to FileFlyer for example, you send it to your own website (this would cost about $10 a month). You add the e-mail addresses like before. When your website receives the file, it will make a special download link for every e-mail address it contained and send it to the recipients. Unlike FileFlyer or similar websites, each download link will be unique so cannot be shared, as I will explain. When your website detects that a unique download link has been used, it will make the download link expire upon one of these criteria, the download has been successfully completed, or 180 minutes have passed since the first download was attempted. How strict these criteria are and exactly how it works depends on your needs.

Rapidshare has an automatic feature like this but you would still need your own webspace.
 
thanks for the info Andrew and the rest of you guys, much appreciated.
 
i'm guessing you don't have a broadband connection?
 
90 minutes sounds right for a 350MB upload on a broadband connection. Although download speeds may be in excess of 8mb, upload speeds in the UK are nearer to 768kb, which is around 90kbps.
 
@Wild sure have it's supposed to be one of the quickest in the UK.

@Andrew thanks once again for your advice, was getting worried there, I'm thinking jeez what speeds have they got in the states, lol.
 
just ran a speed test (i'm paying a little extra for Roadrunner turbo) here, and these were the average times in the space of a minute

http://www.austin.rr.com/speedtest/speed2.asp?total=0.485

Your throughput is 18772 kilobits per second.
Your throughput is 22417 kilobits per second.
Your throughput is 22417 kilobits per second.
Your throughput is 22371 kilobits per second.

vroom?

thats just on the home computer
 
i sell art videos (instruction how to paint) and i do it through lulu.com they take a percentage but the handle all the file sending plus do extra marketing for you
 
 
Loaded 1356258 bytes in 0.469 seconds. Your throughput is 23134 kilobits per second.
(Comcast Cable) I don't pay anything extra..... I win! LMAO

(Cable in Florida runs faster because we don't have any hills for the signal to climb over) :^)

I can also load up to 500 megs via FTP to my own personal account and not have to deal with third party servers.
 
great.. now i'm gonna suffer from cable envy.
 


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