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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by ReducedArc@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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

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[-] oppy1984@lemm.ee 7 points 2 years ago

Yep, I've got a buddy in another country that I needed to share a group of files with, it was several gigs and we were both editing things.

We setup a syncthing connection and once we were synced it just worked. I also use it on my LAN to sync personal files, but to share with him we both just set up a folder and I just shared that one folder with him while the rest of my shares stayed private on the LAN.

Syncthing is amazing.

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