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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

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 4 days ago (21 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (17 children)

Er, wait, are you using Syncthing for its intended purpose of syncing files across devices on your local network? And then exposing that infrastructure to the internet? Or are you isolating Syncthing instances?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

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

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