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Sharing a one gig file one time/Apartment hunting sucks
Darkewolfe
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Long story short: Went apartment hunting for girlfriend who is across country. Video taped apartments so she could see them. Need to get a one gig zip file to her across the country. Willing to pay 5-10 bucks for a quick service. What are my options?
What is this I don't even.
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make a torrent file?
use a file sharing network like soulseek?
Unless your video is 3 hours long there's no reason it should be 1 gig.
You can probably get down to 10 megs per minute or less even at a high quality WMV compression.
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What file format is it in? Jasconius is right in that it should be compressible.
My recommendation is UPS 2-day air.
Actually read an article that said for very large (many terabytes) amounts of data, it is faster to just ship the hard drives between the locations.
Murphy's Paradox: The more you plan, the more that can go wrong. The less you plan, the less likely your plan will succeed.
After that... making a torrent file is easy, but requires that you and her are online and such, and have fast connections. If you have fast connections but can't be online simultaneously, use a file splitter + upload service (mediafire/rapidshare/etc.). Otherwise post a thumbdrive or sd card.
http://sync.live.com/
Megavideo.com will let you upload videos upto a gig, but beware spyware and popups.
But your best bet is compressing and uploading your video.
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Hell, I transferred the Windows 7 RC to my friend a few days ago. That's 3 gb.
Or you could set up an FTP that she can access. Bonus this way is that you can just add whatever else to it and she can download it at her leisure.
Whether you can or not, Dropbox is free and easy. Download, make an account, drop it in. You get 2GB of space with the free account. I don't know if there are size restrictions for a single file, but if there are, you can compress and split.
torrents are a non starter, as you need multiple peers for it to work properly. with just two of you, its just as fast as sending it over IM.
This man has the right thinking.
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/03/31/2224227&tid=95&tid=133&tid=126&tid=14
And yea, get the file size down, esp if you're going to try a file transfer. sure she needs to see what it looks like, but I'm sure it'd be fine at a bit lower quality.
Seriously.
It's exactly what you want and need. You upload it, go to sleep, shut off your computer, whatever, doesn't matter. She gets it at her leisure.
Don't zip/rar it into pieces to get by some filesize restriction and make her have to stitch it back together. There's alternatives that don't require extra work.
Don't compress it unless you can do so with virtually no loss in quality. If you could send her the full res 1 GB file just as easily as a lower res 500 MB file, go with the full res. Unless the compressed quality is fine, then upload it to a video site like some have suggested here...
I wouldn't try to send it over an IM client, not a file that large. In the past, if my connection drops, I had to retry. Also you're looking for a method where you both don't have to be on the computer at the same time, so IM not so good.
If you want to get this to her quickly, then make a windows live account that you two can share, and have her install windows live sync on her computer and log in. Then, at your leisure, install sync and sign in, and you'll be able to create a folder on her computer and set up a shared folder. You drop the 1 GB file in that folder and it automatically starts syncing. In the morning when she wakes up, she has the video.
Same idea, but without the need to download software:
www.yousendit.com
*edit* - nevermind, use dropbox instead, yousendit charge monthly fees now if you wanna send owt over 200meg.
Box.net
Drop.io
MediaFire
Windows Live SkyDrive
FolderShare
As for how long it is, it's probably about 30 minutes of video and several high-res photos. It was gathered from about 8 guided apartment tours. I don't want to down-rez it much because the whole point is to see detail.
FYI, FolderShare was bought by MS and turned into Windows Live Sync.
I dont know anything about the sites I posted, the link just turned up as I was 'stumbling'. It reminded me of this thread, so I posted it here.