Easy way to share big files...
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Hello all, I want to share videos of the machines we make with my customers and I've been able to see that they are having big troubles using FTP... it seems that they can't get to download the files even I give them the full path: ftp://username:password@ip_address. I would like to give them the possibility to download the files in an effortlessly way. The main issue here is that I can't use skydrive or similar software due to their limitations of space for each file. I need to share big video files from 200MB to 500MB more or less. In my ISP I can't get more than 500MB of space so this is neither an option. What would you do? Notice that a free option is what we are searching for. Another issue here is that in my company we have 2MB DSL so imagine the speed it takes when we upload something... X| Any hint will be appreciated, of course I won't be able to tell you anything else than that I will pay you a beer if you come to Artés, but even this will unlikely happen, I'll be glad to see how our wonderful community show his magic knowledge again... :rolleyes:
USB Pen Drive of a couple of gb, then attach it to a carrier pidgeon. Thats the best, most reliable way I have found so far. ;)
oooo, the Jedi's will feel this one....
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Hello all, I want to share videos of the machines we make with my customers and I've been able to see that they are having big troubles using FTP... it seems that they can't get to download the files even I give them the full path: ftp://username:password@ip_address. I would like to give them the possibility to download the files in an effortlessly way. The main issue here is that I can't use skydrive or similar software due to their limitations of space for each file. I need to share big video files from 200MB to 500MB more or less. In my ISP I can't get more than 500MB of space so this is neither an option. What would you do? Notice that a free option is what we are searching for. Another issue here is that in my company we have 2MB DSL so imagine the speed it takes when we upload something... X| Any hint will be appreciated, of course I won't be able to tell you anything else than that I will pay you a beer if you come to Artés, but even this will unlikely happen, I'll be glad to see how our wonderful community show his magic knowledge again... :rolleyes:
For users who can't grasp FTP I normally recommend Filezilla as it is easy to walk users through setting up a FTP connection and it can remember connections for future use. The other way we transfer is to setup custom client portal sites, if you were to outlay something like £30 per year + £40 one off cost you could setthis up quite easily with a DNN ISP like websecurestores.com.
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USB Pen Drive of a couple of gb, then attach it to a carrier pidgeon. Thats the best, most reliable way I have found so far. ;)
oooo, the Jedi's will feel this one....
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Hello all, I want to share videos of the machines we make with my customers and I've been able to see that they are having big troubles using FTP... it seems that they can't get to download the files even I give them the full path: ftp://username:password@ip_address. I would like to give them the possibility to download the files in an effortlessly way. The main issue here is that I can't use skydrive or similar software due to their limitations of space for each file. I need to share big video files from 200MB to 500MB more or less. In my ISP I can't get more than 500MB of space so this is neither an option. What would you do? Notice that a free option is what we are searching for. Another issue here is that in my company we have 2MB DSL so imagine the speed it takes when we upload something... X| Any hint will be appreciated, of course I won't be able to tell you anything else than that I will pay you a beer if you come to Artés, but even this will unlikely happen, I'll be glad to see how our wonderful community show his magic knowledge again... :rolleyes:
YouSendIt.com might be an option
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Hello all, I want to share videos of the machines we make with my customers and I've been able to see that they are having big troubles using FTP... it seems that they can't get to download the files even I give them the full path: ftp://username:password@ip_address. I would like to give them the possibility to download the files in an effortlessly way. The main issue here is that I can't use skydrive or similar software due to their limitations of space for each file. I need to share big video files from 200MB to 500MB more or less. In my ISP I can't get more than 500MB of space so this is neither an option. What would you do? Notice that a free option is what we are searching for. Another issue here is that in my company we have 2MB DSL so imagine the speed it takes when we upload something... X| Any hint will be appreciated, of course I won't be able to tell you anything else than that I will pay you a beer if you come to Artés, but even this will unlikely happen, I'll be glad to see how our wonderful community show his magic knowledge again... :rolleyes:
Not sure if this is an option, but have you tried encoding your files into another format, e.g. flv? You'll often find that lowering the sound or picture quality will make the files MUCH smaller. In your case, perhaps sacrificing some quality for size might the way to go. I recently recorded some VHS tapes to *.avi using a tuner card and 15 minutes worth was about 800MB. After converting them to flv and adjusting the quality they were about 45MB.
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Hello all, I want to share videos of the machines we make with my customers and I've been able to see that they are having big troubles using FTP... it seems that they can't get to download the files even I give them the full path: ftp://username:password@ip_address. I would like to give them the possibility to download the files in an effortlessly way. The main issue here is that I can't use skydrive or similar software due to their limitations of space for each file. I need to share big video files from 200MB to 500MB more or less. In my ISP I can't get more than 500MB of space so this is neither an option. What would you do? Notice that a free option is what we are searching for. Another issue here is that in my company we have 2MB DSL so imagine the speed it takes when we upload something... X| Any hint will be appreciated, of course I won't be able to tell you anything else than that I will pay you a beer if you come to Artés, but even this will unlikely happen, I'll be glad to see how our wonderful community show his magic knowledge again... :rolleyes:
To make it easy for the customer might mean more trouble for you. But well worth it I would think. Why not set up your own web server on your internet connection. A 500MHz PIII could be dedicated to run PWS or IIS or Apache web server to allow streaming video from your location. Convert the AVI to FLV with FFMPEG and use Flowplayer to deliver the streaming video. If you have a dynamic IP address you can use the services of dyndns.com or dtdns.net to track your IP. If you have a static IP the service will supply you with a domain name such as http://[MyCompany].dyndns.org/ If you already have a website you can put the links to your videos there. Any solution that requires your customers to use services that are perceived to be outside of your organization will lower their opinion of your company. Dont rule out ftp though. Help to teach the masses that FTP is the way it is done by serious professionals. Suggest they get FTP client software. Give them a link to ftp995 (http://www.software995.com/[^] A free client with top drawer features (sell them on the ability to resume an interupted download) This is how we used to transfer 500mb files over 56K modem with 100% success. Sure it means a bit of effort on your part but once you can do this - the internet belongs to YOU!
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Hello all, I want to share videos of the machines we make with my customers and I've been able to see that they are having big troubles using FTP... it seems that they can't get to download the files even I give them the full path: ftp://username:password@ip_address. I would like to give them the possibility to download the files in an effortlessly way. The main issue here is that I can't use skydrive or similar software due to their limitations of space for each file. I need to share big video files from 200MB to 500MB more or less. In my ISP I can't get more than 500MB of space so this is neither an option. What would you do? Notice that a free option is what we are searching for. Another issue here is that in my company we have 2MB DSL so imagine the speed it takes when we upload something... X| Any hint will be appreciated, of course I won't be able to tell you anything else than that I will pay you a beer if you come to Artés, but even this will unlikely happen, I'll be glad to see how our wonderful community show his magic knowledge again... :rolleyes:
http://www.s4ve.as/[^] 24 hours, any size file.
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Hello all, I want to share videos of the machines we make with my customers and I've been able to see that they are having big troubles using FTP... it seems that they can't get to download the files even I give them the full path: ftp://username:password@ip_address. I would like to give them the possibility to download the files in an effortlessly way. The main issue here is that I can't use skydrive or similar software due to their limitations of space for each file. I need to share big video files from 200MB to 500MB more or less. In my ISP I can't get more than 500MB of space so this is neither an option. What would you do? Notice that a free option is what we are searching for. Another issue here is that in my company we have 2MB DSL so imagine the speed it takes when we upload something... X| Any hint will be appreciated, of course I won't be able to tell you anything else than that I will pay you a beer if you come to Artés, but even this will unlikely happen, I'll be glad to see how our wonderful community show his magic knowledge again... :rolleyes:
You already have an ftpserver, so I would go with a webserver, IIS or apache. I prefer IIS, a bit easier to set up (in my opinion). If needed you could put it on a different port. Some ISP's block certain ports. You can even put password protection, and best of all, it stays within your organization. Is your upload really 2 megabytes and not megabits? 2MB is pretty fast, and putting 200-500MB files should download fairly quickly. 2MB=2048KB, 2mb=256KB. You could also probably go for an offsite hosted server, rackspace is realtively cheap depending on where you go, and you could get a basic server to do this for way cheap. It also allows you to run over to that server and use a thumb drive to put the files on it. Here's basic pro's and cons of doing it this way Pro's Flexibility to do what you want, Unlimited storage, Bandwidth (depending on the hosting site) Keeps relying on 3rd parties down Static IP Ability to use some kind of removable media to copy data Cons, Cost, It's up to you to setup/maintain the server. (win 2003 and iis6 is ridiculously easy with automatic updates) It's up to you to implement security. For a single server, using the built in windows firewall might be acceptable. It's up to you to do redundancy if you want it.
Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber. - Aristotle
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You already have an ftpserver, so I would go with a webserver, IIS or apache. I prefer IIS, a bit easier to set up (in my opinion). If needed you could put it on a different port. Some ISP's block certain ports. You can even put password protection, and best of all, it stays within your organization. Is your upload really 2 megabytes and not megabits? 2MB is pretty fast, and putting 200-500MB files should download fairly quickly. 2MB=2048KB, 2mb=256KB. You could also probably go for an offsite hosted server, rackspace is realtively cheap depending on where you go, and you could get a basic server to do this for way cheap. It also allows you to run over to that server and use a thumb drive to put the files on it. Here's basic pro's and cons of doing it this way Pro's Flexibility to do what you want, Unlimited storage, Bandwidth (depending on the hosting site) Keeps relying on 3rd parties down Static IP Ability to use some kind of removable media to copy data Cons, Cost, It's up to you to setup/maintain the server. (win 2003 and iis6 is ridiculously easy with automatic updates) It's up to you to implement security. For a single server, using the built in windows firewall might be acceptable. It's up to you to do redundancy if you want it.
Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber. - Aristotle
ecooke wrote:
your upload really 2 megabytes and not megabits? 2MB
No, the spell checker has changed it to MB but they should have been Mb... :(( So anything that implies having it hosted into my organization (even it would be the best) is not the way to go... sending 200 MB to a customer would be veeeery sloooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow... thank you for your feedback.
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http://www.s4ve.as/[^] 24 hours, any size file.
I'll take a look at it, thank you for your feedback! :thumbsup:
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To make it easy for the customer might mean more trouble for you. But well worth it I would think. Why not set up your own web server on your internet connection. A 500MHz PIII could be dedicated to run PWS or IIS or Apache web server to allow streaming video from your location. Convert the AVI to FLV with FFMPEG and use Flowplayer to deliver the streaming video. If you have a dynamic IP address you can use the services of dyndns.com or dtdns.net to track your IP. If you have a static IP the service will supply you with a domain name such as http://[MyCompany].dyndns.org/ If you already have a website you can put the links to your videos there. Any solution that requires your customers to use services that are perceived to be outside of your organization will lower their opinion of your company. Dont rule out ftp though. Help to teach the masses that FTP is the way it is done by serious professionals. Suggest they get FTP client software. Give them a link to ftp995 (http://www.software995.com/[^] A free client with top drawer features (sell them on the ability to resume an interupted download) This is how we used to transfer 500mb files over 56K modem with 100% success. Sure it means a bit of effort on your part but once you can do this - the internet belongs to YOU!
madmikeofmasodo wrote:
the internet belongs to YOU!
eeerrmm... what have you taken? Now seriously, I agree you completely... (well, not in that last phrase, but the other part is OK). Thank you... Anyway, the difficult part here is that the customer is the one that can loose the interest on my products if it is too difficult for him to get them... so this is why I'm asking for easier solutions...
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Not sure if this is an option, but have you tried encoding your files into another format, e.g. flv? You'll often find that lowering the sound or picture quality will make the files MUCH smaller. In your case, perhaps sacrificing some quality for size might the way to go. I recently recorded some VHS tapes to *.avi using a tuner card and 15 minutes worth was about 800MB. After converting them to flv and adjusting the quality they were about 45MB.
Good point, the only drawback here is that they will need a codec to see the video... I'm using mpeg 1 or 2 and with windows XP they can be seen without anything extra...
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madmikeofmasodo wrote:
the internet belongs to YOU!
eeerrmm... what have you taken? Now seriously, I agree you completely... (well, not in that last phrase, but the other part is OK). Thank you... Anyway, the difficult part here is that the customer is the one that can loose the interest on my products if it is too difficult for him to get them... so this is why I'm asking for easier solutions...
If you are afraid of loosing potential customers, how can you afford to NOT increase bandwith/speed on your internet connection or pay the $5 per mo more to your ISP for more storage space. geeeesh!
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If you are afraid of loosing potential customers, how can you afford to NOT increase bandwith/speed on your internet connection or pay the $5 per mo more to your ISP for more storage space. geeeesh!
I had not thought on using my ISP in order to do that... :thumbsup: But I'm afraid that where I live I can't get a better Internet connection... :thumbsdown:
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Unless it has to be sent overseas... Do ostriches swim??????
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USB Pen Drive of a couple of gb, then attach it to a carrier pidgeon. Thats the best, most reliable way I have found so far. ;)
oooo, the Jedi's will feel this one....
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http://www.adrive.com/[^] its fast and easy.
I'll take a look at it thank you! :thumbsup:
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strongly recommend www.drivehq.com, very cool, It has owner software. publish/share different permission.
I'll take a look at it thank you very much! :thumbsup:
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Use 1) Yahoo Messenger 2) Skype Fast and efficient.
I don't know about yahoo messenger, but Skype is terribly slow in my laptop. I use it everyday to speak with my couple and when we send to each other some pictures or other files, then it is painfully slow... Probably due to my slow Internet connection, but... Moreover those solutions imply that I would be in front of the computer and I'm thinking in something that could be non attended as I'm sending files overseas and the timezone is really different.. 46 hours or something like that... ;P