http://www.pando.com — one of the new web2.0-ish personal p2p services, allows you to send large bulky files pretty effortlessly. However, it requires a small download-of-a-client. Apparently, it works by (I think) two non-competing ways; both the sender AND giant “telenodes” can act as a ’sender’ of sorts of the file. I think the telenode will act if your computer isn’t on, or isn’t running Pando. I haven’t bothered looking harder than that. At any rate, the sending rate is pretty good … it vascillates between 5kb — 300kbs pretty quickly; nevertheless … its able to send about 300mb/h –> 300mb/60min –>5mb/60sec –>80kb/s … not too shabby!
Have tried this with Darren, Dorothy and Jason, all to great success so far.
NB, you can even “forward” a file once you’ve “sent” it once, saving you the bother of ‘uploading’ it or ‘packaging’ it.
However — the uploaded file only stays valid for about 14d, otherwise you’ll need to do it again.
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Nice website. I testeed it with a 2GB file and it seems to work very well. Thanks !!
Wow — I thought the limit was 1gig.
I did send a file that was just over, but wow … 2 gigs.
Great!
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