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5 Free Browser-Based P2P File Sharing Sites With No Size Limits

by Tim Le na ha n on Aug. 27th, 2010

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Having the ability to share large files is very Browser Tips BitTorrent
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For instance, the other day I wanted to send a U N O F F IC IA L M A N U A L

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have them wait for it to download again. So what to do?

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4. The ability to send large files – no file-size limit

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W hen I began to search the Internet for file sharing sites, I wasn’t sure what the easiest
solution would be. What I found out was that there are quite a few file-sending options, but I Polls More Guides
had criteria. We all have standards, don’t we? Check out these five choices which meet the
criteria shared above.
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This file sharing site makes it easy referring to “on-the-fly” transfers and all that. Be careful, just
as in any of these peer-to-peer tools, don’t try to open the created link yourself. Doing that will
only be letting you dow nload the file back to yourself and blocking your friend from dow nloading
it. No too smart.

PipeBytes
From the site: “Instantly send music, movies, presentations or any other files to anybody!”
Thanks, for telling us what any of these peer-to-peer tools do for us. OK, I’m just kidding
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All sci-fi w eirdness put aside, this file sharing site puts peer-to-peer into easy to understand
words: “Exchange big files directly without uploading to a server.” If you are transferring peer-
to-peer, the uploading and downloading all happens at once making everything quick and easy.

Dushare
Dushare is a tool not recently mentioned here on MakeUseOf. You can share a file peer-to-peer,
password protect it, and even chat while the transfer takes place because who wants to pick up
a phone?

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Seriously though, out of all of the rest of the file sharing sites mentioned here, I think Dushare
has the prettiest looking website design. Oh, and in case you are wondering what sequence
things will happen in, you have some nifty icons showing you. You can’t beat that.

You’ll notice that there wasn’t much to say about each of these tools. That’s because they all
pretty much do the same thing: send any sized files, directly to another person quickly, easily
and for no charge. And that’s about all they do. Test them out and see which performs the best
and which is the easiest to use. Then come and tell us in the comments which is best.

How do you send large files over the Internet and why do you use that method?

(By) Tim blogs about tech tips tricks and news on his blog: timmyjohnboy.com

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cedance 1 w eek ago

Dropbox / Opera Unite. I still find these better.

timmyjohnboy 1 week ago

With dropbox, the files are actually being uploaded to a server, correct? Not sure about
opera's Unite. These tools in this article were specifically P2P w/o uploading to 3rd party
servers.

Megh 1 week ago

Opera Unite is P2P

Aibek liked this

hdxz 1 week ago

Can you please give us an idea of the speeds you were getting? Speed is the one important
factor you left out here.

timmyjohnboy 1 week ago

The speeds would depend on the sender's and the receiver's bandwidth, I'm sure. The
particular service plays a part too no doubt.

User 1 week ago

how can you leave out http://www.isendr.com/ ?

Jessica Cam Wong 1 week ago

Nice! There's also FileAi which has been featured.

Aibek liked this

timmyjohnboy 1 week ago

Thanks Jessica.

Frank 6 days ago

this all seems good not using a 3rd party server but should i be concerned that we are using
p2p here? thanks for your time

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timmyjohnboy 6 days ago

What kind of concern? Security?

Frank 6 days ago

Yes security is the concern

timmyjohnboy 5 days ago

The tip Isteve gave is a good one of you're concerned. Try encrypting the file before
transmission.

Isteve 6 days ago

Regarding security I guess it depends on what your sending and how its sent.
I doubt if I would use the sites password option as then they have it if they w ant it.
I'm more likely to compress the file and passw ord that then send it.

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Isteve 6 days ago

I forgot, thank you TJB for this excellent info,I had no idea that such an option existed.

So often I have wanted to send stuff to my Brother in Scotland and changed my mind at the
trouble in doing so, one of the mentioned w ays is ideal.
Thanks again

Frank 4 days ago

i guess encryption would be the way to go. of course i was concerned with p2p because of
all the underground stuff that goes on with p2p. i was wondering about the affect on a
strategy such as these aformentioned sites

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