How to transfer?...

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I thought this would be an "obvious" thing, but I can't find an
answer/program anywhere else...

I'm co-authoring a project with a person on the other side of the
country. We both have "stand-alone" PCs running XP, each with a fast
(broadband) connection to the internet.

We'd like to transfer a large ZIP file back & forth periodically (these
can be 300 Meg or more).

They're (obviously) too big for e-mail attachments, we'd rather not pay
for FTP space somewhere (not to mention that would take twice as long to
transfer with "upload" first, and "download" second).

We'd like to be able to transfer these directly.

ICQ (and I assume that other messenger programs) have the ability to do
this, but we've found ICQ to be completely unreliable (constantly
dropping the connection, no "resume where you left-off"), etc.

Is there an application that would do the trick? Ideally, all we really
need is something like the "transfer file" functionality of ICQ, which
can handle large files, intelligent auto-resume if there's a problem, and
(ideally) a little security, although we can always password encrypt the
ZIP files.

I realize that there are big applications (like PC Anywhere) that offer
this capability, but all we need is the simple, reliable file transfer
functionality.

Thanks in advance for your ideas!

-Tom
 
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| I thought this would be an "obvious" thing, but I can't
find an
| answer/program anywhere else...
|
| I'm co-authoring a project with a person on the other side
of the
| country. We both have "stand-alone" PCs running XP, each
with a fast
| (broadband) connection to the internet.
|
| We'd like to transfer a large ZIP file back & forth
periodically (these
| can be 300 Meg or more).
|
| They're (obviously) too big for e-mail attachments, we'd
rather not pay
| for FTP space somewhere (not to mention that would take
twice as long to
| transfer with "upload" first, and "download" second).
|
| We'd like to be able to transfer these directly.
|
| ICQ (and I assume that other messenger programs) have the
ability to do
| this, but we've found ICQ to be completely unreliable
(constantly
| dropping the connection, no "resume where you left-off"),
etc.
|
| Is there an application that would do the trick? Ideally,
all we really
| need is something like the "transfer file" functionality
of ICQ, which
| can handle large files, intelligent auto-resume if there's
a problem, and
| (ideally) a little security, although we can always
password encrypt the
| ZIP files.
|
| I realize that there are big applications (like PC
Anywhere) that offer
| this capability, but all we need is the simple, reliable
file transfer
| functionality.
|
| Thanks in advance for your ideas!
|
| -Tom
 
If you're running XP Pro, you can use Internet Information Services and run
your own FTP/Internet Server.
 
If you're running XP Pro, you can use Internet Information Services
and run your own FTP/Internet Server.
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I am, and that crossed my mind, but my ISP (broadband) changes my IP
several times a day at random intervals (to prevent me from running a
server), and wasn't sure if there was a way around that to use IIS
practically?
 
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