Bandwidth and file transfers

Posted on 11 September 2011 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Sometimes you have greater bandwidth by mailing a CD or DVD or by sending a little USB drive by FedEx.

From XKCD:

It is a synchronicity that this came up.  The other day I had to send someone a large batch of big photos.  After the first couple attempts with different email accounts, I remembered I had one old account permitting huge attachments.   I wound up compressing the folder and sending it off.  It worked.

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9 Responses to Bandwidth and file transfers

  1. Animadversor says:
    11 September 2011 at 12:55 AM

    Perhaps minus.com?

  2. jcr says:
    11 September 2011 at 1:25 AM

    A well-known computer scientist but it this way 15 years ago, when mag tapes were still common: Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway. (Andy Tanenbaum).

  3. mike cliffson says:
    11 September 2011 at 4:38 AM

    “It worked.”unquote
    Have you ever read about the abominable autoscribe in “Canticle for leibowitz?
    Fr
    If ANYTHING on the net etc EVER works for you even some of the time I’m inclined to believe it’s a sign you’re working for who you are working.

  4. chonak says:
    11 September 2011 at 7:45 AM

    The Opera browser has a new feature that lets you share a folder on your machine with your friends: it’s handy and doesn’t require you to change any firewall settings.

  5. Fr. John Zuhlsdorf says:
    11 September 2011 at 7:50 AM

    chonak: I think Opera has had that for a long time now. I used to use it.

  6. acroat says:
    11 September 2011 at 9:21 AM

    I’d just be happy if my external backup drives would stop crashing….

  7. Suburbanbanshee says:
    11 September 2011 at 4:35 PM

    Re: station wagon, the classical term for manual file transfer is “sneakernet”. :)

  8. worm says:
    11 September 2011 at 9:07 PM

    Anyone remember ymodem?

  9. quixoticfreak says:
    11 September 2011 at 11:04 PM

    literally sending files. awesome.