"Dan Calic" said in news:VX91c.102206$Xp.436492@attbi_s54:
Hi,
I have Outlook 2003 and a cable modem connection.
I tried to send a 22MG Realnetwork video file to a friend.
It sat in my outbox for over an hour, and I finally deleted it.
What's a good way to send a file like this?
- Dan
E-mail is NOT a file transfer mechanism. That's what FTP is for.
E-mail not only restricts the maximum size for a message based on your
ISP's quotas but is also the slowest means to transfer a large file
because most mail servers will throttle each connection to spread its
resources across as many connections as possible. Mail servers don't
lockup so they can service just one user grabbing a ridiculously
oversized file from one mail account. They need to service hundreds or
thousands of users concurrently accessing their mail accounts. Everyone
gets a piece of the pie (of hardware resources). No one gets to eat the
whole pie and make others wait to get a piece later.
Upload the file to a web page. Comcast provides freebie personal web
page space but may not give you a big enough quota for the big file you
want to put there. I think Yahoo gives you 15MB so that wouldn't be
large enough. There may be other freebie personal web page providers
that give you enough space for that 22MB file. You seem to be using
Comcast as your ISP (assuming the e-mail address in the headers of your
post are correct, but it is very dumb to broadcast your true e-mail
address for spambots to harvest). Comcast provides 25MB of disk space
for your personal web pages with them, so you'd have enough space there.
Upload the file to a path under your personal web space and send a URL
link to it in your e-mail. Then your recipient gets a tiny sized e-mail
message that downloads quickly telling them where they can yank your
file should that recipient really want it. Note that while you may have
the disk quota needed in that personal web space to store the file,
there are likely other quotas that apply, like per-day or per-month
bandwidth quotas. So don't expect everyone you send an e-mail with the
link to be able to download the file. A 22MB file downloaded by 100
recipients would equal 2200MB of bandwidth and your personal web pages
may only accomodate something like a 100MB quota, so recipients would
have to wait until your quota got renewed again to allocate more
bandwidth.
If some joker who thought he was a friend of mine sent me an e-mail with
a 22MB attachment (assuming my mailbox was large enough to hold it),
that joker would get a warning that they are on a short tether of
friendship which will get severed should they assault my mailbox again
with such abuse. Send the recipient a URL link to where you saved the
file. Don't be sending huge files via e-mail. That's rude. It's slow.
It's likely to cause corruption and freeze up the recipient's mailbox if
accepted.
