9 File Sending and Sharing services Compared and Tested

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9 File Sending and Sharing services Compared and Tested

Here is a list of 9 File sharing/Large File sending services, the main criteria for choosing them to be discussed over here, was, some feature which I found unique in them, apart from their ability to deal with very large file size.

FIle Dropper

A Simple and easy to use service, files up to 5GB size can be uploaded and link for downloading it can be shared, to let others download the same file.

Uploading a file gives you an embed code for a button which can be used as a download link button for the particular file on your site.

As, the download link generated, has just few more characters added to the home page URL of the File Dropper, and so it can be easily guessed or remembered by anyone, hence it's not suggestible to share very confidential files via File Dropper.

Try File Dropper

Transfer Big Files

Another file sharing service, which too is easy to use, and a simple method to share files with anyone you want. No registration is required to use the service.

You can just go to the home page and start uploading files, at a time you can upload up to 5 files, however each file should be within the size limit of 1GB.

This service asks for the e-mail address of the person whom you want to send the files, service sends the mail to the email address given, telling them about the files which has been sent to them, that means you don't need to send the email, telling them about the download link.

Try Transfer Big Files

Cl1P.Net

Cl1p,a file sharing service, which comes with a text editor too, here you get a webpage as account, which has several options to enhance its functionality as per your needs, you can add text, set password for this page so as to add an extra level of protection.

You can upload several files of 30MB each, email someone to share the data on the page right away, directly from the page itself, without signing in into any email client, Life span for this account can also be set starting from 1 hour to 9 months.

You can create an account within no time, what you need to do is choose any name and suffix it with "http://cl1p.net/".

Try Cl1p.net

Pipe Bytes

Pipe Bytes allows you to send files of any size, without any account creation, you upload the file and get an URL, or a code, and send anyone of these to the recipient of the file, in case of Code, the recipient needs to pick up the file from Pipe Bytes home page, by providing the code there.

The beauty of this service lies in the feature, according to which the recipient can start the file download as soon as the sender starts uploading, yeah, that's streaming. As stated on their FAQ page, files are not stored anywhere on the servers; they are immediately streamed to the recipient, so, to make a successful transfer the recipient needs to download the file, as the sender uploads.

Try Pipe Bytes

StreamFile

However, Stream file is also a similar kind of service, which uses the concept of streaming, with file size limit as 2 GB, and the file download link is valid for 24 hours duration from the upload. Read more about Streamfile.

Try Streamfile

This is not the end of list for sending and sharing large files, few more services which are pretty popular for sending large files are as follows -

YouSendit

• Send up to 100MB file.
• Send to multiple recipients in one go, just by entering their email address.
• A message can also be sent along with the files.
• No registration required, however to get features like Password protection, return receipt etc., a sign up is required.
• Files are stored on servers for 7 days.

Drop Send

• Send files of up to 1GB
• Files can be downloaded for 2 weeks, from the upload time.
• No registration required as far as you don't choose some enhanced functionalities.

DropBox & Box.Net

Dropbox and Box.net are file sharing services, which can be used for sending large files, a comparison between Dropbox and Box.net, can be useful, for choosing the one for you.

A Quick Wrap-up

I am not sure how many of you will have the patience to read this part, as ample of discussion has already been done, well, talking about the performance of the above services will not make any sense, as the upload and download time of any file is something which is going to play the most important role here, and the upload and download are the things which vary vastly on so many other things for every individual, so before you make a choice for the best service, here is a table which I have created on the basis of features and functionality, have a look.

Hope you liked going through this post, do share with us any more services you know, and tell us if this post really helped you with the choice making for your file sending service