40 Responses to “5 Ways to Send Large Files through Email”

1. Technobuzz.net Jul 31st, 2007 at 4:01 pm

   Nice Post. DropSend is the best one

2. Shashank Jul 31st, 2007 at 5:10 pm

   4shared and Megaupload i ve used a long time ago…now gmail also has increased its limit..

3. Valentin Jul 31st, 2007 at 5:26 pm

   Nice review.

   Yet, once one own a web-space …

4. nirmaltv Jul 31st, 2007 at 6:06 pm

   @Technobuzz,
   I too agree with you, dropsend has lot of features.

   @Valentin,
   Thanks for the visit.

5. kanak Jul 31st, 2007 at 6:21 pm

   till now never used any such service. gmail was enough for me to tansfer mp3 , or huge picture files etc. Will surely try these out, at time of necessity. hey nirmal , is there any search facility available for any of these.

6. nirmaltv Jul 31st, 2007 at 6:28 pm

   @Kanak,
   GMail has a limit of 20 MB attachment I think, in case you have a bigger file like a software or something, this will be useful. I don’t think there is any search facility, BTW what type of search are you referring?

7. Shankar Ganesh Jul 31st, 2007 at 6:39 pm

   Informative post there. I’ve tried YouSendIt. Have to explore other services.

8. kanak Jul 31st, 2007 at 7:07 pm

   @nirmal Actually , so many users upload files. So by any means to search files based on file name or file type on these servers.

9. Vaibhav Jul 31st, 2007 at 7:16 pm

   add one more. PANDO.com this is one of the good services…

10. nirmaltv Jul 31st, 2007 at 7:18 pm

    @Kanak,
    I think there is no way to track the uploaded files unless you create an account, many of these provide creating accounts.

    @Vaibhav,
    Thanks for informing about Pando, I just checked it. Their service is good I think.

11. CristianR Jul 31st, 2007 at 10:03 pm

    How about rapidshare ?

12. Shivaranjan Jul 31st, 2007 at 11:24 pm

    I would suggest you tryout Gigasize also.

13. Clara Aug 1st, 2007 at 12:34 am

    I’ve heard alot about Yousendit though I’ve never used such services but this list will certainly come in handy. Thanks for the compliation.

14. Grace Aug 1st, 2007 at 2:50 am

    Even though I don’t usually send large files online because they’re usually confidential, I like Drop Send and You Send It. I like You Send It’s 2gb feature.

15. Rishi Aug 1st, 2007 at 9:05 am

    I have been using DropSend and MegaUpload toolbar for a long time and very happy with them. One thing I think you missed is Pando, it is also very good and safe file sharing s/w.

16. dEEPAK Aug 1st, 2007 at 9:47 am

    I used to use YouSendIt in the past.. But it’s not feasible for sending large files with a slow internet connection like mine.. SO now I use Pando.. It has a software so it’s possible to pause and resume the transfers whenever you want..

17. nirmaltv Aug 1st, 2007 at 10:38 am

    @Cristian,
    Generally I dont use Rapid share.

    @Shivaranjan,
    I’ll add it to the list.

    @Clara,
    Glad that you liked the compilation.

    @Rishi and Deepak,
    I’ll add Pando to the list, looks like many have favored it.

18. Rishi Aug 1st, 2007 at 10:55 am

    Yes Nirmal, Pando is worth a try, give it a look or in the language of blogger - a review!

19. Vijay Aug 1st, 2007 at 5:44 pm

    I am currently using YouSendIt only. Guess I will have to give the others a shot as well

20. Dj Flush Aug 1st, 2007 at 6:12 pm

    Nice list there Nirmal

    But I have never felt the need to send files larger than 20 MB over email which Gmail already allows

    However in future if I ever need to send large files I have your post bookmarked for that time

21. nirmaltv Aug 1st, 2007 at 6:21 pm

    @Vijay,
    I think you can try DropSend, the service is pretty good and also Pando as many have voted for it.

    @DJ,
    Glad that you liked the list. In normal cases we may not send files more than 20MB, but if you need to share some movies, then you can check out this list.

22. Benedict Herold Aug 1st, 2007 at 10:57 pm

    Haven’t tried anyone these other than DivShare! I didn’t face a situation of sending big file online yet.!

23. chinna Aug 3rd, 2007 at 12:04 am

    I can suggest one more, sharebigfile

24. Ashish Mohta Aug 5th, 2007 at 8:49 am

    No doubt a good collection, but If i see from a general use it will be not be useful. The reason being the internet speed. Uploading 1gb or even 500MB of data will take huge amount of time. On The other hand downloading it on the other end will take the same.

    Such huge amount of data is mostly used by big giants who have huge satellite links which give them bandwidth which allows them to download 1gb of data in around 30 minutes.

    Now Imagine if a common user tries to send a movie across how much time it will take both to upload and download it.

25. nirmaltv Aug 5th, 2007 at 9:05 am

    @Ashish,
    I agree with you on some points that you need a high speed internet connection to upload and download.

    Now Imagine if a common user tries to send a movie across how much time it will take both to upload and download it.

    If you consider Rapidshare how many movie does it have, I feel its very vast, so instead of using a rapid share feature, these options will directly send the link to the people and users needed. I feel if people have time to upload movies and softwares to Rapid share, then these services are also useful.

26. nirmaltv Aug 5th, 2007 at 9:08 am

    @Ashish,
    One more thing I wanted to tell was consider a software around 50 MB, not the big sizes(500MB) as mentioned by you. In this case how do you send it? I feel this is the best option rather than splitting the software in 2-3 parts and attaching with mail.

27. Ashish Mohta Aug 5th, 2007 at 9:16 am

    @Nirmal:

    Agreed if the size is limited within 100 Mb but if you are trying to share movies and download it will need considerable time, No matter how fast is the server but if you have slow internet connection or even moderate , it will need good time.

    Now looking on the other side people do have time to download as they can just keep the system on and go to bed lol.

28. yplow98 Aug 9th, 2007 at 7:22 pm

    nice review

29. texasbrian Aug 29th, 2007 at 8:41 pm

    I use transferbigfiles.com and I love it.

30. Jeff Barson Sep 15th, 2007 at 7:09 pm

    Email’s SMTP going to have to be replaced to make things like large file transfers work the way they should. Going to have to be a revolution.

31. Azmeen Sep 17th, 2007 at 2:13 pm

    Stumbled on this and must say that it’s pretty useful.

    Thanks for sharing.

32. nirmaltv Sep 17th, 2007 at 5:17 pm

    @Azmeen,
    Thanks for the Stumble.

33. Josh Davis Sep 18th, 2007 at 10:49 pm

    This is great for organizations with e-mail size limitations (yeah, their still out there).,

34. Ankit Sep 18th, 2007 at 11:11 pm

    There is also http://www.mydatabus.com . It offers 5GB with 250MB attachments for free users. Advantage here is there is no time limit for keeping the files on the server. They can stay put as long as you dont delete them. Yousend it also a good service…

35. newkiraj Sep 23rd, 2007 at 3:01 am

    4 online storage, box.net is the best i’ve used, although not much space with a free accouunt. They have a widget to share ur files on ur site, and if u have music on there the widget can b used as a player too

    great list

36. netking Oct 11th, 2007 at 9:23 pm

    There’s a free service provided by a french ISP.

    You can reach it on dl.free.fr
    (google translated here :http://www.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fdl.free.fr&langpair=fr%7Cen&hl=en&ie=UTF8)

    You can send files up to 1gb via HTTP and 10gb (!!!) via http://FTP.

    Files will be stocked as long as a 30 days period without any dl is reached. It generates a temporary url (or a temporary FTP account, depending on your choice).

    This is really simple and useful and the bandwidth is always at the top…

    Cheers…

37. Thao Apr 10th, 2008 at 9:27 am

    Send6.com should be considered. You can send a file upto 4GB using Send6 Wizard. This is very impressed caused other application only allows you upto 2GB.

38. Gravity Aug 29th, 2008 at 11:25 pm

    send6.com is awesome. i love the post too… amazing.

39. Musab Sep 13th, 2008 at 11:18 am

    Awsome list! thanks for sharing

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