On occasion I find myself needing to send a file at least a few gigabytes in size to a friend across our slow ISPs but haven’t found a satisfying solution. I usually end up creating a private torrent with the announce address of my own IP. Even though it’s slow - it basically never reaches my max upload speed for some reason, it is at least resilient if there are ever any network glitches.

Does anyone else face this same challenge?

EDIT: Thank you for the awesome suggestions! I have some homework to do on these

  • iii@mander.xyz
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    4 months ago

    Syncthing is not limited to local network. It’s hole punching is one of the major features

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      4 months ago

      The fact that Syncthing seems to solve CGNAT on its own has me wondering why there are not more solutions for the server/home side.

      Why does Wireguard or any other VPN not work like Tailscale or Zerotier?

      Why don’t torrent clients can’t work with IPv6 to seed more?

      Why doesn’t Plex adopt a similar mechanic like Syncthing to expose the media over the Internet instead of being a prisoner of CGNAT?

      I know I am just throwing different options with my personal frustrations lol, but I hope you get what I am trying to mean, Plex, torrent and home VPN users shouldn’t become masters at networking, especially when the documentation for the tools IS NOT ENOUGH.