On occasion I find myself needing to send a file at least a few gigabytes in size to a friend across our slow ISPs but haven’t found a satisfying solution. I usually end up creating a private torrent with the announce address of my own IP. Even though it’s slow - it basically never reaches my max upload speed for some reason, it is at least resilient if there are ever any network glitches.

Does anyone else face this same challenge?

EDIT: Thank you for the awesome suggestions! I have some homework to do on these

  • MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    21 hours ago

    Syncthing is designed to be used over the internet, it’s why it supports NAT hole punching, relay servers, and discovery servers.