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How do I send really large files to my wife
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<blockquote data-quote="cwa107" data-source="post: 850688" data-attributes="member: 24098"><p>I did an FTP transfer to a friend with a Mac not too long ago. It was a rather large file (over 1GB) and it worked just fine. He basically turned on FTP and gave me a public IP address to connect to.</p><p></p><p>Now, the only problem I can foresee is that the recipient would need to give the sender a *public* IP. And if the recipient is on a router, using NAT, one would need to 1) find out what the public IP of the modem is... and 2) Configure port forwarding to forward any traffic on TCP/UDP port 21 to the private IP address of the machine that it's ultimately destined to go to.</p><p></p><p>Services like DropBox, Skype and others basically act like an intermediary, enabling you to bypass those steps, but the trade-off is a slower transfer (since it has to act as a middleman).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cwa107, post: 850688, member: 24098"] I did an FTP transfer to a friend with a Mac not too long ago. It was a rather large file (over 1GB) and it worked just fine. He basically turned on FTP and gave me a public IP address to connect to. Now, the only problem I can foresee is that the recipient would need to give the sender a *public* IP. And if the recipient is on a router, using NAT, one would need to 1) find out what the public IP of the modem is... and 2) Configure port forwarding to forward any traffic on TCP/UDP port 21 to the private IP address of the machine that it's ultimately destined to go to. Services like DropBox, Skype and others basically act like an intermediary, enabling you to bypass those steps, but the trade-off is a slower transfer (since it has to act as a middleman). [/QUOTE]
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