Best Way to send a Large File by Email?

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I want to send a 250 MB Video HolidaySkiing Film from a Sony Camcorder
I presume I will need to send the software application to play this
Yes? No?

I have used www.pando.com says its good for files of up to 1GB but it
failed me it was going at a rate of 15kilobyes upload I have 1 Megabye
Dsl which was running fast the time no congestion.

I had to cancel the transfer as it was far to slow whats the best
solution to this problem?

Thanks

Heidy
 
Broadband uses Asymmetrical speeds. Uploads are significantly slower
than download speeds. What format is your video stored in ? The
only realistic way to get a file that size transferred is to convert it from
it's native format to something with a higher compression level to make
the file size smaller. You will still be faced with a long upload time.
Here's a calculator to estimate upload times:
http://www.rockprint.com/calculator.shtml
 
I want to send a 250 MB Video HolidaySkiing Film from a Sony Camcorder
I presume I will need to send the software application to play this
Yes? No?

I have used www.pando.com says its good for files of up to 1GB but it
failed me it was going at a rate of 15kilobyes upload I have 1 Megabye
Dsl which was running fast the time no congestion.

I had to cancel the transfer as it was far to slow whats the best
solution to this problem?
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Burn to CD and mail it to them.
 
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I want to send a 250 MB Video HolidaySkiing Film from a Sony Camcorder
I presume I will need to send the software application to play this
Yes? No?

I have used www.pando.com says its good for files of up to 1GB but it
failed me it was going at a rate of 15kilobyes upload I have 1 Megabye
Dsl which was running fast the time no congestion.

I had to cancel the transfer as it was far to slow whats the best
solution to this problem?

Thanks

Heidy
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Good Luck, Ayush.
 
laird said:
R. McCarty is exactly right - Pando is sending the file as fast as your
broadband connection is capable of. Switching to another transfer tool
won't speed things up at all.

There are two reasons that the numbers are confusing:

First, as R. explained, broadband connections are usually much slower
up than down. For example, if you have a 1 Mbps download speed, you
might have a 150 Kbps upload speed. Broadband providers usually do this
because it lets them advertise a fast speed for downloads, which is what
people care about most of the time, but save quite a bit of money by
only providing slow uploads, which are in the fine print, so people
only notice when sending big files.

Second, your DSL connection provides bandwidth measured in
bits-per-second, and Pando (like most such programs) displays transfers
in bytes-per-second. To convert bits (b) to bytes (B), divide by 8. So
if your DSL connection can upload 150 Kbps, that works out to a bit
over 18 KBps as the maximum upload rate theoretically possible. Usually
in the real world you'll get a few K less than that, which is about what
you're reporting.

At that rate, your 250 MB file will take about 6 hours to upload. The
downloader can be downloading at the same time, so they'd have the file
in 6 hours. I'd recommend letting the upload run in the background while
you're doing other things - while 6 hours is a long time, it's less time
than burning a CD and FedExing it, is less work, and is about $15
cheaper.
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Don't need FedEx. Regular mail should be 63 cents (2 oz) or 87 cents (3
oz) plus the cost of the CD. Of course it will take well over six hours!

Bill
 
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