Topic: File hosting question

[iPPi]

I need to share a file with a relative on the other side of the world and it's about 400MB so I was thinking about putting it on Megaupload to do it but it's behaving really, really awkwardly that I'm not sure if it's working or not.  First, the so called upload process took a matter of seconds, saying that it received the entirety of my file in a matter of seconds.  However, the verification process has been going for about 1.5 hours and its counter is all messed up now so I have no idea if it's working.  Lastly, it seems to be blocking my ability to surf with the browser that I'm using.  I used Firefox to upload the file and other windows or tabs in Firefox don't load any pages. 

I'm posting this from Internet Explorer and things work fine, but it seems to be blocking Firefox.  Is that normal?

Do any of you have recommendations on other methods or sites where I can host a file? 

[idolminds]

Rapidshare? Dropbox (dunno if that requires the client or not)?

[iPPi]

Rapidshare has a 200MB limit.  I don't think my relatives are really knowledgeable with computers and files so I don't think they'll know how to reassemble the file if I break it into multiple pieces.

[idolminds]

You could try Mediafire. Ive used them before but I dont know what the size limit is, if any.

[nickclone]

If it goes up that quickly, that means that someone already uploaded that file. I forgot the name of it, but its been uploaded.

[iPPi]

My desktop isn't handling this very well.  I stopped it and renamed the file into something obscure and it still went to 100% upload incredibly quickly, though I didn't wait for its verification process to start.  Then Firefox died along with my mouse input.  My computer is behaving strangely.  I'm gonna run a virus scan (sound driver failed to start properly on restart and trying to bring up the Task Manager brought up a Windows Application Error several times before starting properly.) 

[iPPi]

Well my computer was clean according to the scan... I think my system stability is going downhill rapidly thanks to my video card.  I'll try again via Megaupload and see if I can get it to work.

Edit:  I think it's working now.  I'll have to see in a bit.  This is a pain in the ass.

[Cobra951]

I've been transferring large files to myself (across different places) using Skydrive.  If you have a hotmail account/Windows Live ID, you have 25 GB of free cloud storage.  The catch is that the max file size is 50 MB, so I use WinRAR to split up larger files into chunks slightly smaller than that.  You said you don't want to do that, but keep it in mind as a backup if the other options fail.  I'm not a fan of places like megaupload.

[scottws]

Go old school and mail a CD-R?

[iPPi]

Go old school and mail a CD-R?

Yea that's a good alternative and I might go that route, it just takes time.

Anyway, I used Mediafire and got it to work.  Had to split the file into two pieces though but WinRAR did that easily.  Hopefully my relatives know how to put it back together.