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

  • Cano@lemm.ee
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    2 days ago

    You can use syncthing to transfer files across the internet? How? I thought it was only for local networks

    • oldfart@lemm.ee
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      23 hours ago

      It just works, there’s no “how”. Take one of the devices outside, connect to the internet, done.

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      1 day ago

      By default out of the box it will transfer over the internet if it needs to.