FTP/Filezilla a reasonable way to send files over the internet to/from novices?
Posted: 2021-03-01 22:09
A new acquaintance and I took pictures and video for a speaker event for a charity and wanted to exchange files for editing and so on without having to drive ~ 50 miles each way to exchange SD cards.
There are too many files and some are too large to email or even to upload to free cloud storage and send links to each other. I have thought of torrents or perhaps FTP as possible options but neither of us are solid on the fundamentals at all for either of them. I have used both, but just a little bit in the past. The other gentleman had never heard of either of them and is almost a computer newbie.
In reading a sticky or two here it sounds like things could be pretty complex and require perhaps many hours of reading to get up to speed on networking, routing, firewalls etc. and even then might run into a wall such that even a computer guru might conclude that "you can't get there from here". Is that a reasonable reading of the challenge we might be up against in using FTP as a possible solution?
On a simpler note, my counterpart will be wanting to send files to me. I might need to send files to him and/or someone else. Would I need to install both FileZilla Client and FileZilla Server to both send and receive files, or would FileZilla Server be able to both send and receive?
Would using something like uTorrent likely be a simpler solution for us?
Thank you for any recommendations or insights anyone might be willing to share.
There are too many files and some are too large to email or even to upload to free cloud storage and send links to each other. I have thought of torrents or perhaps FTP as possible options but neither of us are solid on the fundamentals at all for either of them. I have used both, but just a little bit in the past. The other gentleman had never heard of either of them and is almost a computer newbie.
In reading a sticky or two here it sounds like things could be pretty complex and require perhaps many hours of reading to get up to speed on networking, routing, firewalls etc. and even then might run into a wall such that even a computer guru might conclude that "you can't get there from here". Is that a reasonable reading of the challenge we might be up against in using FTP as a possible solution?
On a simpler note, my counterpart will be wanting to send files to me. I might need to send files to him and/or someone else. Would I need to install both FileZilla Client and FileZilla Server to both send and receive files, or would FileZilla Server be able to both send and receive?
Would using something like uTorrent likely be a simpler solution for us?
Thank you for any recommendations or insights anyone might be willing to share.