How to send large files over Internet in 2mins

“This media file is taking a large disk space how can I send it to him”. You scratched your head whole day thinking how can you send large files over internet which are of 2 GB to a friend who is too far from you. Don’t worry, this article is all about your problem.

Days were gone when you have to write a letter to disseminate any information or transfer any package and post it and yet then it takes weeks to reach its destination, digitalization and technological advancements made it possible to text someone via Messenger apps when you are missing them, and it also opened ways to transfer file or media to someone over the internet irrespective of the size (in physical as well as storage size) of a package or the distance between the sender and receiver. In this article, I will be mentioning the top 5 ways through which you can share large files over the internet.

Best 5 ways to send large files over Internet

1) GOOGLE DRIVE:

Every kid nowadays knows the name of Google. If you ask him a question and he finds himself in trouble to answer, he would go and Google it.

Hence Google has a solution for every problem of us. Similarly, Google has also the solution for sending the file over the internet to someone but the irony is only 1 billion users use it whereas the number of total Android users is 2.5 billion. One more thing every Android phone has Google drive pre-installed in it.

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HOW TO SHARE FILES VIA GOOGLE DRIVE?

1) open application or website. (Sign in with your Google account)

2)  upload the file or media on drive.

3) now you are done you just have to share the link of your file from which peoples can access it.

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Note: you can purchase the plans of Google drive if you need extra cloud storage.

Subscription plans:

 Note: Google provides up to 15 Gigs of storage free however, if you need you can upgrade your current plan to a better one which starts from:

 1) 100 GB for Rs. 130/month or Rs. 1300/ year

 2) 200 GB for Rs. 210/ month or Rs. 2100 / year

 3) 2 TB for Rs. 650/ month or Rs. 6500 / year

 4) 10 TB for Rs. 6500 / month

 5) 20 TB for Rs. 13000/ month

 6) 30 TB for Rs. 19500/ month

2) Dropbox

Dropbox is another and pretty much popular way which provides file hosting services. Which was developed by Dropbox, Inc. it is available on every platform and if you are a windows user you get the Dropbox application pre-installed. Over 4,50,000 businesses trust the services of Dropbox. Now the question rises how to share files via Dropbox?

HOW TO SHARE FILES VIA DROPBOX?

1) well the steps are pretty the same as Google drive.

2) open the application or sign in to the website.

3) upload your media file on the Dropbox.

4) get the shareable link and share the link with the person you want to share the media.

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Note: you can purchase the plans of Google drive if you need extra cloud storage.

SUBSCRIPTION DETAILS:

1)  Basic – Dropbox provides 2GB of storage free of cost.

2) Plus – In this plan, you get 2TB of storage at $ 9.99 / month or Rs. 752 / month

4) Professional – In this plan you get 3TB of storage at $ 16.58 / month or Rs. 1247 / month

 NOTE: Along with the different subscription plans, you get following advantages:

3) FILE COMPRESSION SOFTWARE’S

If you have various files to send and you want to send them. Don’t scratch your head, you don’t have to send them one by one. All you need to do is, use a compression software.

Well, these software compresses the files so that they occupy less disk space. This method suits better when you have a bunch of files to send, these software’s combines all those files into a folder and combines them in a folder whose disk space is less than the combined space of original files. Hence your problem of heavy disk space is solved so now you can share them by WhatsApp, Instagram, or any other messenger application.

Some examples of compression software 

1) WinZip

2) WinRAR

3) 7- zip

4) zip archiver

HOW TO COMPRESS ANY FILE?

IN WINDOWS:

1) select the file you want to compress.

2) click right on the mouse.

3) look for the option of “send to”.

4) choose the compressed zip folder.

5) now you can rename your zipped folder.

IN ANDROID:

Unfortunately, Android doesn’t provide the feature to compress a file so you need a third-party application which compresses the files such as WinZip, WinRAR, RAR, etc

1) open the application you have downloaded.

2) select the file you want to compress.

3) tap on the option.

4) choose an archive or zip option.

Note: they are free to use and involves no subscription plans.

4) MEDIAFIRE

Media fire is another cloud-based file sharing platform that provides the solution of sharing large files over the internet. It is a pretty much popular way among the persons who are involved in the file-sharing activities especially YouTubers. It was founded in 2006. It provides features such as:

1) 10 Gb free (up to 4gb per file)

2) unlimited bandwidth and download

3) share easily after uploading

4) upload multiple files at once.

5) organize with ease.

6) one-time link

HOW TO SHARE FILES VIA MEDIAFIRE?

1)  Well, you need a Gmail account linked with your media for an account of you to want to retain your files for a long unless your files will be deleted after 14 days. 

2) further steps are the same as any other cloud-based storage service

3) you need to open the application or website.

4) simply upload your file.

5) get the shareable link and share it with the one you want.

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Note: you can purchase the plans of Google drive if you need extra cloud storage.

SUBSCRIPTION PLANS

MEDIAFIRE also provides 3 types of subscription plans to its users.

1) Basic- 0.01 TB (10 GB) @ free

2) Pro – 1 user, 1 TB @ $5 / month or $45 / year

3)  Business – 100 users, up to 100 TB @ $50 / month or $480 / year

NOTE:  you get the following advantage for different subscription plans.

5) TELEGRAM / INSTAGRAM

This may sound a little bit crazy that how can a messaging application can be used as a file-sharing solution but yeah, it’s true you can also use Telegram and Instagram to share bigger files. You can share files up to 1.5 Gb on telegram and up to 4 GB in Instagram (find more details regarding the Instagram’s norms related to file sharing click here)

Additionally, there are various websites which provide the solution to share large files over the internet by just signing up and uploading the files there few of them are as follows 

1) justbeamit

2) jump share

3) we transfer

4) File Mail

5)send transfer

Moreover, every company provides its cloud-based storage facility which you can use to share large files such as one drive in Microsoft,  hey tap cloud in realme devices, Samsung cloud in Samsung device, Xiaomi cloud in Xiaomi devices and more on. Even you can use Gmail but you can send files up to 25 MB only. 

In the end, I would say that there are various ways through which you can send a large file over the internet, other than them you can just send your hard drive to that person or you can use a USB- drive. Now you don’t have to scratch your head about the size of the file, you just have to send it through the above-mentioned ways and call your friend that he received it or not?