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What kind of data are you sending, how much, how quick do you need it there?

Assuming it's reasonably compressible, you can wait a few days, and you can get access to "rsync" (you use GNU/Linux, MacOS, WSL, or can install GitBash/Cygwin) then...

* rsync -avPz source user@destination:target

"rsync" will send all files from the "source" folder to the "target" folder, compressing them on the fly, and (clever bit) if it gets stopped/connection drops then it can be started again it will pick up where it left off.

There is some setup involved and there's loads more options like rate limits, different login methods, etc. It's totally doable. I've done it in the past to ship around 80Gb from Notts to Glasgow over a weekend.

Assuming a "terrible" upload speed of 2Mb/s, then you can push *at least* ~21Gb every 24 hours. The more compressible the data, the more you can send.

If the data is already compressed or incompressible, just drop the "z".

Another option would be to rent a shared workspace, but do check their connections/policies before you cause upset.

If transfer is critical, or insanely huge, then dump it to a portable SSD (consider encryption) and have it couriered.
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CreatedWed 29th Nov 2023 9:58pm
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