Method for transfering large files for newbies

One of my friends is now in China and wants to send me his home-made video files. I have a Linux hosting account on GoDaddy and I've configured an FTP account for him. Unfortunately he's having trouble in using the FTP account.

Can you recommend a better option?

Solution 1:

If it's 2 GB or less (at a time), Dropbox is a good option, it's utterly dead simple to use, and you can either share account to account, or put it in the web accessable public account. Also if one of you recommends the other, you get an extra 250 MB space.

Solution 2:

Note that most of browsers are showing FTPs on a quite transparent way.

If you give a direct link to your file, like a ftp://user:[email protected] (note sure fully about the syntax, though), he won't even have to bother with using a FTP client. It will be like downloading a regular file from Internet. It could be a way to make it easier, using what you already prepared.