Nov 30, 2007 6:28 PM
So how long would you guess it would take to upload a 160 meg file?
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I would have used yousendit.com, but they have a 100 meg limit for the free service. Since I'm being frugal (nee cheap) I'm using another service called sendthisfile.com.
The file is 160 megs. I am currently at 137 megs uploaded. How long have I been doing this? And how long will it take to complete the process?
Four hours and 23 minutes to upload the whole thing.
You can always zip a file into multiple files..ie zip the file and request it to be made into 20 meg chunks etc..whatever size you want. Then send the pieces one at a time.
Right, though for a variety of reasons, not the least of which is the receiver wanting one whole file on the other end of the transaction (and he's a principal at my firm) I needed to do it this way.
Well, for most internet services, uploading speeds are always slower than downloading, check your service agreement and it will be something like #### up/#### down.
But the weird thing is your company doesn't have a VPN or an "FTP" Server. That file isn't really secured.
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Originally posted by Dervin:
Well, for most internet services, uploading speeds are always slower than downloading, check your service agreement and it will be something like #### up/#### down.
But the weird thing is your company doesn't have a VPN or an "FTP" Server. That file isn't really secured.
We do have a vpn and I could have used the ftp site where I store our website.
If I had thought of it beforehand.
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Originally posted by ellenshana:
I would have used yousendit.com, but they have a 100 meg limit for the free service. Since I'm being frugal (nee cheap) I'm using another service called sendthisfile.com.
The file is 160 megs. I am currently at 137 megs uploaded. How long have I been doing this? And how long will it take to complete the process?
I use Godaddy for lots of business and personal stuff
A domain name like www.ellenshana.com[/URL" target="_blank"> will cost you $9 a year.
The for $3.95 a month or $6.95 a month you can host and have almost everything you are using these Free and PIA to use services. With Godaddy hosting you can have you own Ad-Free websites, tons of email addresses, enormous data storage and well-though comingling of other stuff that many of you spread around uncoordiated on the PIA free services that annoy the hell out of those you send there to use stuff.
and you don't have to be a rocket scientist to use the stuff.
Edited to add;
I've got plenty of in house servers and set up for the real serious stuff but I'm into lots of outside things that I don't want to have to worry about letting inside my main business firewall so GoDaddy is just ever so great and I have enough hardware to mess with in house, though since I've replaced all my servers with Dell Servers, my screw around factor has dropped 5 fold, and the rare support help I need from them (India) is amazing fast and so effective nobody believes it.
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quote:
Originally posted by Dervin:
Well, for most internet services, uploading speeds are always slower than downloading, check your service agreement and it will be something like #### up/#### down.
But the weird thing is your company doesn't have a VPN or an "FTP" Server. That file isn't really secured.
Many firms don't employ or have access to consultant that knows anything more than how to put complicated and undreadable formulas in Excel.
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