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tsumake - Nov 4, 2004
  tsumake Nov 4, 2004
Hey Guys,

I'm new to bittorent, and I was wondering how it works,exactly. You see, I'd like to send a friend a 100 meg file, but he doesn't have a large enough email account and he doesn't have the money to have a home account so he has to view his email in an internet cafe (he's in Prague). How do I go about setting up a torrent for him? Thanks!

 it290 Nov 4, 2004
Well, a torrent isn't really going to do you any good if you're trying to transfer the file to a single person. You're better off just putting the file on an FTP or web server, probably the former as a lot of internet cafes won't let you use FTP, and definitely not bittorrent. Your best option might actually be just snail mailing a CD.

 ExCyber Nov 4, 2004
Yeah, BitTorrent is for swarming downloads (many-to-many).

 Alexvrb Nov 4, 2004
Can he use an IM program like AIM? You can send files over AIM, and it supports resume.

 Raijin Z Nov 6, 2004
No matter what, how is he going to do anything with a 100MB file on a public system? Last I checked, zip drives were being phased out, and they really don't want people burning CDs or using USB/Firewire drives.

Hotmail provides 250MB of storage for free now, so how is that not an option?

 Curtis Nov 6, 2004
Is it 250Meg continuous, or are there individual file size limits?

 Raijin Z Nov 6, 2004
Should be continuous, but they upped the limit well after I got my gmail account, so I haven't checked for myself. The cool thing about the gmail version is, it holds onto everything you send, so you don't have to re-upload something if someone else needs it later. I sent a 100MB file through gmail with no trouble, but I broke it into 13 separate rar files, because I didn't want to get disconnected in near the end and have to restart the whole process.

 Zero 9 Nov 6, 2004
As far as I know, hotmail is still 2mb.

 mal Nov 7, 2004
My Hotmail account is 250MB.

 link343 Nov 7, 2004

  
	
	

		
		

			Originally posted by tsumake@Thu, 2004-11-04 @ 07:15 PM



Hey Guys,



 I'm new to bittorent, and I was wondering how it works,exactly. You see, I'd like to send a friend a 100 meg file, but he doesn't have a large enough email account and he doesn't have the money to have a home account so he has to view his email in an internet cafe (he's in Prague). How do I go about setting up a torrent for him? Thanks!




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Use Yousendit.... Its safe, and you can send files up to one gig!. I know, someone sent me some mp3's and they came safely.

 tsumake Nov 7, 2004
Thanks for the info. I used yousendit, and it seems like it worked!