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Found the program I'm gonna use to transfer video files back and forth to my sister.

So many of you have been helping me look for one that I thought I'd better let you know, so you can stop looking.

It was actually found (?) by my sister. The store she bought her new computer from had her install it so they could connect remotely to check on some issues she was having. She lives in Australia's Outback so running into town with the computer is something to be avoided as much as possible. But anyway, she was looking it over and found out that it can be used to transfer files. It can be done using a password too, for extra security.

For anyone interested, the program is called TeamViewer . I did a test by connecting to my old computer using it, and it went great. I was able to copy/transfer a 16+MB file to my new computer in 24 seconds. That beats the living daylights out of the 5 minutes it usually takes just to upload or download a file that size.

We're gonna try connecting and transfering her video files and pictures to me at the end of next week. If I remember, I'll add a reply to this thread with details of how it goes.

And since I'm on the topic of sending large files, I also found a site that we almost went with, and would have had she not mentioned TeamViewer.

That site is Files Over Miles. It's about as easy as you could want. There's no downloading a program and installing or anything. You simply tell them which file you want to share with people you choose to. They then create a link that you send to your friends or whoever. Your friends click the link and select where on thier computer they want to save the file, and click the go button. When I did a test using that site, I was able to transfer a 14MB file in just under45 seconds.

The thing I like about Files Over Miles is that you're not giving the person on the other end access to your whole computer. They can only get the one file that you want them to get (In my case and situation, I trust my sister so I'm not worried about that.).

The only downside I saw, which isn't much, is that the sender has to keep the browser window open that they set the transfer up on until everybody that is going to take a copy of the file has done it. If the sender closes the window, the connection is closed and the link becomes useless. So it's kind of a safety switch too.

[edited to add] You can also password protect your file access with Files Over Miles.

Locutus: Hmmm…

The computers sit next to each other on my desk and connect via wifi to the box (router?) in the other room that connects to the internet.

With the Files Over Miles you have no choice but to use the internet to connect because you go thru their site to make the connection.

With TeamViewer, while I do have it installed on one computer and ran an executable version on the other, I still think that had to go thru their site.

So wouldn't that mean that the speeds should remain fairly close no matter where the other computer is?

Ramesh:

1- yes

2- no

Locutus:

I went thru all the options under the "options" tab and don't see 'VNC compatibility mode' anywhere.

Under the Advanced tab in the network settings area there is a check mark next to "Use UDP (recommended)."

Under the General tab there is a section titled "Connection in local network (via IP address)." The only thing in that section says "Incoming LAN connections" with a dropdown box to the right with "deactivated" selected.

Other than those two spots I don't see anything that talks about LAN.

In your reply it refers to "TeamViewer 2.X." If that is the version those instructions are for, that may be why I'm not seeing what it says. The version I have is version 5.0.7904 with a date of Feb. 11, 2010.

Does any of that make sense?

Locutus:

Wouldn't that be fantastic? I'm keeeping my fingers crossed, but not holding my breath that it'll be that fast when I use it to transfer my sister's video files.

I will do my best to remember to post the actual time it takes once I've done the transfer. Should be by next weekend, if the timing works out.