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

    • UnH1ng3d@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 day ago

      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?

      • JigglySackles@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        22 hours ago

        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.

      • SilentKnightOwl@slrpnk.netEnglish
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        1 day ago

        Whoever uploaded them has to send you a link to them. It does have a limit of 10gb, but its pretty reliable I’m my experience.