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Best software to transfer a single large file?

Are you trying to avoid IM clients altogether or just AIM? If this is a regular thing you will be doing, you could set up an FTP for you two, and you can just put the file(s) on the server and then, at the very least, just give your friend a regular link to download the file at his leisure.

As much as I dislike AIM, there direct connect/file sending capabilities are the most straightforward out of all the mainstream IM clients.
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Binfer does this.
»www.ehow.com/how_5710285_send-la···ily.html

»www.binfer.com/home

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FTP

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You could create a basic account on:

»www.adrive.com/

Basically create an account, upload the file, then set it to share, and send the URL to your friend.

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I use this program to share whatever I want with friends, works well, you may like it. »www.wfshome.com/

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Another option:
»freenetproject.org/index.html

reply to kvn864
A few benefits of using Adrive.com.

1. You and the person you are sending the file to do not have to be on the same schedule/time zone... I can upload a file today, share the url with them, and they can grab the file whenever they have time.

2. Although it will take me a while to upload a large file, the person who has to download it later doesn't have to wait for me to push it across the internet... plus on many home connections the upload speed is capped at a fraction of the download speed...

3. The person you are sending the file to doesn't need to be technically minded you are just sending them a url link to download a file from.

Obviously FTP is ideal, but that requires both parties to be available at the same time, they may need to know how to configure firewalls, and port forwarding etc...

reply to bigyeah
Or this:
»wasteagain.sourceforge.net/

reply to bigyeah
Thanks everyone for your suggestions. I will give each one a shot and let you know which solutions i prefer.

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Features

* Serverless, encrypted Chat & File transfer
* Multiple simultaneous downloads / uploads
* Search Friends
* Messages
* Forums
* UPnP / NAT-PMP port forwarding support
* OpenSSL Encryption
* DHT support
* Plugins support
* Graphical User Interface written with Qt4 toolkit
* System tray integration

»retroshare.sourceforge.net/
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reply to bigyeah
Windows live messenger does that stuff does it not?

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No software needed
free
no registration
5gig file limit
»www.yourfilelink.com/
file must be grabbed within 24hrs.
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I use CCFile but it doesnt seem to utilize my full upload capability. This program cant possibly make it any easier to send files to people.

»www.cc-file-transfer.com/

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I just tried out a program called HFS - HTTP File Server.
»www.rejetto.com/hfs/
So far, so good. I will try the others and let you know what I think. Thanks for all of the replies thus far!

I use that, in combination with DynDNS.

I use the DynDns Updater.

The latest version(4.1.5) has never missed a lick, whereas the previous version occasionally thought my local IP was the one to use.