Deliver Huge Image Files Bangkok-To-China

[ETatBKK]

hi there

need to deliver almost 500MB+ JPEG to couple of contact points in China. learnt that not all delivery services are accessible from China. any suggestion which service works ?

thanks . . .

[crazygreg44]

a friend of mine is a professional photographer. On several occasions, he let me look at pics he did in a very high resolution. Since you cannot upload files larger than 50 MB using the most common email servers (yahoo,msn,gmx, etc) there needed to be another solution. I do not know the exact name of the program/membership, but there are (paid) memberships in bigfile com or similar names ( you really have to google for to get the idea how many there are), otherwise you could buy file space in an existing "cloud" or in dropbox. These services cost a few bucks per year. A more simple thing would be sending the files on a cheap disc or USB stick to your partner by post !

[JetsetBkk]

I use "yousendit dot com": https://www.yousendit.com/

My Plan: YouSendIt Lite Account

Primary Email: [email protected]

Billing Plan: FREE

PLAN FEATURES

Maximum file size: 50 MB

Available storage for saved files: 2 GB

Maximum download bandwidth per month: 1 GB

Maximum File Downloads: 100

As long as each file is less than 50 MB and there are less than 100 of them, you should be OK.

[kwonitoy]

I use this to send large files, same as others, free service for smaller uploads (2GB) and more if you pay.

You upload to the site and send a link to whoever needs to look at it.

https://www.dropbox.com/

You can also send large files through Skype for free, We use it as work to send data back to the head office.

Open your contact on the Skype homepage, click on the + sign next to the call mobile button and select send files

[Jiu-Jitsu]

I use this to send large files, same as others, free service for smaller uploads (2GB) and more if you pay.

You upload to the site and send a link to whoever needs to look at it.

https://www.dropbox.com/

You can also send large files through Skype for free, We use it as work to send data back to the head office.

Open your contact on the Skype homepage, click on the + sign next to the call mobile button and select send files

In May 2010, Dropbox users in China were unable to access Dropbox. Later, Dropbox confirmed they had been blocked by the Chinese government. Due to the fact that the censorship usually focuses on popular services only, many considered this evidence of Dropbox's rapidly rising popularity and international user base. As of January 2013, the website is still blocked in China, but locally installed applications are usable with some ISPs

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dropbox_(service)

[Jiu-Jitsu]

http://www.lonelyplanet.com/thorntree/thread.jspa?threadID=2299689

[nikster]

hard to confirm but it seems like box.com would work:

https://support.box.com/entries/20361156-How-can-I-access-Box-from-China-

[Chicog]

I use this to send large files, same as others, free service for smaller uploads (2GB) and more if you pay.

You upload to the site and send a link to whoever needs to look at it.

https://www.dropbox.com/

You can also send large files through Skype for free, We use it as work to send data back to the head office.

Open your contact on the Skype homepage, click on the + sign next to the call mobile button and select send files

In May 2010, Dropbox users in China were unable to access Dropbox. Later, Dropbox confirmed they had been blocked by the Chinese government. Due to the fact that the censorship usually focuses on popular services only, many considered this evidence of Dropbox's rapidly rising popularity and international user base. As of January 2013, the website is still blocked in China, but locally installed applications are usable with some ISPs

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dropbox_(service)

What about using UltraSurf, I think they developed it for Chinese users to get round their blocks.

[ETatBKK]

thanks for all the inputs !

yeah, couple of delivery services are being blocked, including Dropbox, Google of course . . .

SkyDrive, YouSendIt . . . and few survived. my contact points are all over the places and not in the main cities like Shanghai. would they have bandwidth / speed problem for big files ?

thanks kwonitoy, I use SKYPE for one-to-one file transfer too. in this one-to-many scenario, I need a new solution.

[meand]

oops, mistake..

[rwdrwdrwd]

You could create a private torrent - http://www.guidingtech.com/18861/share-files-any-size-online-utorrent-private/

[astral]

Have you considered RAR to break the file into more managable blocks

that can easily be reconstructed at the other end

[badsign]

I copy a lot of RAR files from several music sites using this program...............

'Mirror Creator'. it has several different download options and whoever you

send the files to can choose which one works best for them.

http://www.mirrorcreator.com/

if you register, there are more file hosts to choose from. I've used this program

for several years and never had a problem.

don't know how it would work in China though.

good luck

[NewUsers]

I use this to send large files, same as others, free service for smaller uploads (2GB) and more if you pay.

You upload to the site and send a link to whoever needs to look at it.

https://www.dropbox.com/

You can also send large files through Skype for free, We use it as work to send data back to the head office.

Open your contact on the Skype homepage, click on the + sign next to the call mobile button and select send files

This is good one.

[candypants]

thanks for all the inputs !

yeah, couple of delivery services are being blocked, including Dropbox, Google of course . . .

SkyDrive, YouSendIt . . . and few survived. my contact points are all over the places and not in the main cities like Shanghai. would they have bandwidth / speed problem for big files ?

thanks kwonitoy, I use SKYPE for one-to-one file transfer too. in this one-to-many scenario, I need a new solution.

their bandwidth doesn't really matter if they have a dropbox style client installed, you create an account, they create an account you create a folder, you share that folder with them, that folder is recreated on their computer and uploads the files in the background, alerting you when they are current. Any time you change, delete or add anything in that folder, theirs will syschronize

[candypants]

another option is if they have a website, you can ftp the files up to their server, and they can ftp them back down.

back before all these file sharing services came to pass, i would ftp the files up to my webserver and send http or ftp links to the client, they could click on the link and then download the files via http or ftp, depending on their level of computer savvy

[nikster]

thanks for all the inputs !

yeah, couple of delivery services are being blocked, including Dropbox, Google of course . . .

SkyDrive, YouSendIt . . . and few survived. my contact points are all over the places and not in the main cities like Shanghai. would they have bandwidth / speed problem for big files ?

thanks kwonitoy, I use SKYPE for one-to-one file transfer too. in this one-to-many scenario, I need a new solution.

500MB isn't that much.

It's a lot to upload as upload speeds are usually limited. But it's not a lot to download.

[ETatBKK]

UPDATE - I am making a test on SkyDrive. just I have it anyway, and accessible from China. at least one contact point connected and downloaded the files.

yeah, I am suffering the UPLOAD speed right here ( in Bangkok ). I think mine is 1Mb upload, it took a long while :-(