This IS the Avid L2: Re: [Avid-L2] File transfers?

Thursday, January 21, 2016

Re: [Avid-L2] File transfers?

Yes! Sorry, forgot to put that in my report.

I had looked into Synch when it came out and it looked very cool.
However, now it is up to version 2, was suddenly made a pay-for program,
and apparently v2 has bugs causing all kinds of problems. The anti-V2
comments were so strong, I took a pass.

Did not look at or test any of the other torrent systems.

Tim Selander
Tokyo, Japan

On 16/01/22 1:31, Greg Huson Greg@SecretHQ.com [Avid-L2] wrote:
> Did you try the torrent-based system? That struck me as very interesting. Was thinking about experimenting with it. The MPAA doesn't like torrent because it's traditionally used for piracy, of course, so I'm not sure we'll actually be able to use it, but though it would at least be worth an experiment.
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>> On Jan 21, 2016, at 4:34 AM, Tim Selander selander@tkf.att.ne.jp [Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
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>> Appreciate all the tips I got.
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>> We've done some testing, found what works for us. Reporting here
>> for the next folk that have this problem. (Have it in the near
>> future, anyway... no doubt the landscape will keep changing.)
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>> Cut to the chase: We settled on Google Drive.
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>> Winner -- Google Drive
>> Annual cost about $120 for a 1TB Google Drive; big enough for us.
>> Speed: over 18GB an hour. (Downloading/synching on my end with
>> 2gbps fiber. Australia client has 40mbps link; did not report
>> their upload/synch time to me. But was happy with Google Drive, too.)
>> Benefits: Speed, ease of use and very reasonable cost. If I leave
>> my machine on all the time (which I tend to do anyway) as the
>> client uploads files, they automatically start downloading. No
>> links to click, so downloads happen when I'm not even there.)
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>> First Runner Up -- http://gigafile.nu
>> This is a Japanese language only service very similar to
>> YouSendIt, etc. But no account needed, and can send files up to
>> 50GB, and it is absolutely free.
>> Annual cost: Free
>> Speed: Close second at about 15GB an hour
>> Benefits: Cost, speed. Loses a bit on ease of use as the page is
>> confusing and Japanese only and you need to get the download
>> links from email.
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>> Second Runner Up -- Amazon's S3 storage on an AWS account; free
>> trial period.
>> Annual cost: Frankly, I found it hard to figure out. It's a much
>> more complicated product and I wasn't sure what services I would
>> be using. But it looked like it would be at least $720 a year for
>> the storage and bandwidth I'd need. That's very reasonable.
>> Speed: over 18GB an hour
>> Benefits: Speed.
>> Cons: I found their whole system very hard to grok. Very
>> different than anything I've used yet.
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>> Also rans:
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>> In-house FTP server.
>> Tried to set up my own server. Worked great on the internal
>> network, could not get at it from outside. After messing with
>> router port forwarding and free DNS servers for a few hours, I
>> gave up.
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>> FTP on my web host
>> Easy, but slow. A bit over 3GB an hour only.
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>> Digital Pigeon -- Trial period
>> Easy, but slow. Same as FTP at a bit over 3GB an hour.
>> Pricey compared to FTP.
>> Have to click email links, so does not run unattended.
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>> I looked at some of the UDP services, but the prices... yikes. I
>> looked at some open source implementations, but they were beyond
>> my understanding.
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>> Hope this info is of some use to someone, sometime!
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>> Tim Selander
>> Tokyo, Japan
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>> On 1/14/16, 13:49, Tim Selander selander@tkf.att.ne.jp [Avid-L2]
>> wrote:
>>> I've just taken on my first client who wants to send finished files --
>>> about 22 programs a month at 30+GB each -- back and forth between
>>> Australia and Japan.
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>>> I know this comes up from time to time, but what are the good (fast and
>>> cheap?) services to accomplish this? Any advice appreciated!
>>>
>>> Tim Selander
>>> Tokyo, Japan
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