I want to share a variety of large files with friends, both at my school and outside of it, and the content could be text, video, etc. Some of the files will be really large like more than a few gb and I want to know if someone has used some good large file transfer methods. We’d prefer if it could do high-speed file transfers, secure, and if they could be automated or scheduled that’d be cool too. Thanks for your advice~
Are you asking about how to go about torrenting media?
Torrents themselves are not evil, the problem is whether or not the torrent file contains copywritten data.
If you want to share large files, I’d avoid using a lot of the free cloud storage options like OneDrive, Box, Drive, or Dropbox because the syncing and downloading is really slow due to the shared nature of those servers.
WebRTC would be a viable option that is both secure and fast. It’s basically a p2p connection that will allow you to leverage your computer hardware and network connection and avoid the limits that slow down free file sync & share services.
If you want to spend some money, you could use something like Ipswitch or Innorix large file transfer solutions. This software costs money, but if you’re doing any professional stuff while at school, freelancing or even working part-time, the investment could pay off in the long term.
This seems a bit odd - can you provide more details on the what and why? You probably can change what you’re doing so that you don’t require downloading and uploading large files constantly for sharing.
As a student majoring in graphic design, doing video editing and freelance work, I’m required to move files around a lot, which don’t compress well, and it should be secure & fast. Is everyone in this forum always so suspicious? lol
Torrents are a pretty quick way to share media provided both internet connections are stable and quick. However, at my university ALL torrents are banned. In fact, I got banned from the network several times for accidentally clicking on links to download a torrent (the Ubuntu website). So it depends if your college is strict, zero tolerance policy like mine in that regard. It’s pretty annoying when you have to call IT and ask them to unban you.
Thanks for the heads up. Good to know.
Since this is school related, why not ask your professor or IT department for recommendations.
Yea some is school work and other stuff is freelance, but still I guess they’d be willing to give me some advice. :))