[Hidden-tech] best LARGE file transfer method

[Tim Boudreau]

The way I usually do this (on Shutesbury's mediocre DSL) is to make the
file available from a web server running on a computer in my house.  Then
in a shell on the machine I want to receive on, I do something like:

nohup wget --tries=0 --limit-rate=64k http://timboudreau.org/path/to/file &

which has the nice attributes that:
 - The rate is limited to 64k/sec (or whatever you set it to), so it won't
completely hog my internet connection
 - --tries=0 means if the download fails, keep retrying for eternity
 - The leading "nohup" and trailing & mean I can log out of the terminal
session and it will keep going

Of course, all this only works if you can run a web server on the source
machine, and open a port on your router to let web traffic find it, and you
can get wget installed on the destination machine.

If you're looking for more magically non-techie ways to do that, yeah,
you're probably stuck with dropbox and friends.

On the other hand, sometimes sneakernet - throwing it on a physical disk
and taking it where it's going is sometimes the way to go - as someone once
said, "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes"
- and I have known companies that spent more time and money moving
terabytes of data to/from China than it would have cost to put someone on a
plane with a hard drive in their bag.

-Tim


On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 6:30 PM, kris badertscher <kris at kbestproductions.com
> wrote:

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> Any one have a tip or two on how best to transfer 50+GB across the
> interwaves that won't take 4 days on one's computer? No, not dropbox or
> Google anything, nor uTorrent or AirDrop or any of those things we
> *assume* works fine. The issue really is up/downloading speeds....
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> Thanks, Kris
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