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

  • Rekorse@sh.itjust.works
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    21 hours ago

    Not sure if this works for you but I didnt see it mentioned. I use plex for my media server, so I would just put whatever it is on there and then someone else can log in remotely and download it through the app on their mobile, and I think also via the website too.

    I know this works if the person is downloading from android but haven’t tested otherwise.

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      21 hours ago

      That should work for media files at least, but I believe they’ll also need Plex pass to be able to download anything.

      • Brickfrog@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        19 hours ago

        Should be able to do that with Jellyfin, no Plex/Plex Pass needed (if you really want to use media software for this).

        That said I suspect your current method with creating a torrent to share is much more resilient when dealing with choppy internet connections. With Jellyfin/Plex it’s more of a direct download situation, not sure if either can resume broken downloads.