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January 22, 2009

How to Speed Up File Transfers or Downloads

Filed under: file transfer — Tags: download, file transfer, FTP — admin @ 6:00 pm

by David Hakala

Technically, fetching and displaying a Web page involves downloading (transferring) lots of pretty small files. But in common usage, file transfers/downloads means retrieving a large file such as a program that you want to install on your computer. Even on a broadband connection, large downloads can seem to take forever. Let’s see how we can speed them up.

You might try a program other than your Web browser. Browsers are designed for downloading lots of small text and graphics files. They are not optimized for speedy, error-free transfers of large files in the dozens or hundreds of megabytes range. There are standalone programs designed for downloading large files.
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How to Use BitTorrent to Download Files

Filed under: file transfer — Tags: Bittorrent, Bittorrent client, Creative Commons, download files, file transfer, rapid download — admin @ 9:00 am

by Tina Gasperson

BitTorrent is a peer-to-peer protocol that enables the rapid download of large files from a vast online network of “peers” or computers. The BitTorrent protocol works by allowing users to seed a file, which means to make it available online along with a torrent file that identifies it and allows other peers to begin seeding the file as well. BitTorrent can be a very rapid way to download a large file because the more seeds there are, the more places there are from which to download the file.
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January 9, 2009

How to Send Large Files Over the Internet

Filed under: file transfer,Internet,online computing — Tags: file transfer, large files — admin @ 3:00 pm

by David Strom

Sending large files as email attachments is a big pain in the neck. Some email services place a limit on their size, and if you have a bunch of photos or a video or a large PowerPoint presentation, you will quickly find out what this limit is and get a message saying the file can’t be sent that way. So what are your choices?

If you own your own domain, you can transfer the file to your own Web site using something called FTP or SCP and have your correspondent transfer it back to their computer that way. You can make use of Google Docs or something similar that can share Office-type documents, including PowerPoint presentations, spreadsheets and Word documents. If you and your recipient have accounts on the same Instant Message service you can send files that way too. These are all good methods, but your correspondent may not want to use them, and they require some coordination.
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