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Move Large File (6gig) Over Brodband
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gromit95
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Mar 14, 2006, 05:25 PM
 
Hello
I Want To Send A 6gig File To My Brother Via Broadband Dsl.
How Do I Do It??
I Tried Email – Upload To Yahoo—nether Worked
Can I Connect To His Mac Via Dsl?
Thanks Fred
     
CharlesS
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Mar 14, 2006, 05:41 PM
 
You can connect to his Mac if he's not behind a router and he turns file sharing on. Otherwise, iChat is one way you could do it, I think.

E-mail is definitely not going to work since they usually have limits on attachment file sizes that are more like 5-10 MB rather than 6 GB...

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IEEE1394
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Mar 14, 2006, 05:42 PM
 
What speed DSL do you/your brother have? It is possible to directly connect two computers together, but I imagine it would take in the order of days to send such a large file. Mind telling us what kind of file it is? It would probably be faster to burn it to a DVD and mail it to him...


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mduell
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Mar 14, 2006, 06:18 PM
 
Trying to email a 6GB file is funny.
     
version
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Mar 14, 2006, 06:19 PM
 
maybe make a torrent?
     
tooki
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Mar 14, 2006, 06:23 PM
 
This isn't a question about OS X.

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