Sending movies online through Messenger

[hardy]

I have a movie that my friend wants me to send him. Can you send a 4GB file through something like Yahoo! Messenger or AIM? And if you can, about how fast is the transfer speed if both parties have road runner.

[AlanHK]

No idea about Messenger.

I'd suggest using an FTP server, e.g. Cesar : http://www.aclogic.com/
and sending the file directly.

Another way would be by using Teamviewer, http://www.teamviewer.com/index.aspx
a remote control app, which also has file transfer abilities.

Both these are free and offer fairly secure transfer. Make sure you set up passwords whatever you do.

[Moontrash]

y not just create your own torrent file and seed it to him with your favorite torrent client? I do it all the time.

[hardy]

I'll figure something out, I was basically looking for the fastest transfer speeds. I don't know how fast it would be with TeamViewer. I'll try the FTP server and see how that goes.

[Supreme2k]

In the time you are wasting (and will waste further), you could have burned it to disc and sent it cheaply through mail.

I'm also going to go out on a (very thick) limb here and guess that it's a commercial movie that your friend can rent or buy himself.