How to Send 100GB of Photos to Japan with Horrible Australian Internet?

Blue Cat on 09/06/2020 - 21:46
Last edited 09/06/2020 - 21:50

I owe a friend in Japan about 100GB worth of photos and I am thinking of ways to do it in a time-efficient manner.

So far I came up with 5 options:

  • Just put the photos into a new 128GB flash drive and mail it to them. They are willing to pay for everything.
  • Pray to god everyday and just upload 100GB with ULTRA-FAST 1000kbps upload speeds at home and a few dropouts per day (OneDrive seems to be the best for this?)
  • Try a local library?^
  • Try to find a spot in Sydney CBD with fast free wifi and high upload speeds (college campuses?)
  • Buy 2 SIM cards from Catch Connect, $20 after cashback and I get 120GB of data and I tested for 4.5+mbps upload speeds

^Regarding the library option, I once had spoofed the MAC address of one of the desktops there and I managed to get 100mbps upload speeds to upload a 4K 5GB video to YouTube. However, I am worried the staff might get suspicious or the IT staff will start to investigate once they see 100GB of data being uploaded.

I really don't care about privacy or any other protection of files and just want to send them through as they are just simple holiday photos.
Anyone have any other ideas or tips on how to accomplish this?

Poll Options

  • 67
    Just mail the USB Flash Drive
  • 6
    Try your luck with home internet
  • 1
    Pull a dodgy one with the library
  • 0
    Try to find a good spot at the CBD
  • 0
    Buy 2 SIM cards from Catch Connect
  • 3
    Other
Internet

Comments

  • forged on 09/06/2020 - 22:04
    +3

    I assume you don't have (decent) NBN? Uploading 100GB at even 20Mbps would finish in 12 hours or so. If I were you I'd just find a friend with workable NBN at home to upload to OneDrive/Google Drive/whatever for me from a flash drive.

  • Tech5 on 09/06/2020 - 22:05
    +6

    Just mail it. Or use a homing pigeon with IP over Avian Carrier

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_over_Avian_Carriers

    Amazing bandwidth, piss poor latency

  • CC123 on 09/06/2020 - 22:08
    +2

    If you know someone who is at uni ask them and use the uni's internet?
    I know at my uni we have unlimited data on specific days and at specific times

    I am worried the staff might get suspicious or the IT staff will start to investigate once they see 100GB of data being uploaded.

    That also might be an issue with my above suggestion… maybe do it over a few days? 20GB per day?

    • hashtagbargain on 09/06/2020 - 22:49
      +4

      I work in uni IT, we don’t care one bit. Try to do it outside 9-5 and you’ll be sweet.

      • CC123 on 09/06/2020 - 23:05

        That's good to know. Hope my uni is the same.
        Cheers

  • Daabido on 09/06/2020 - 22:08

    Sneakernet, delivered by Black Cat at the other end.

  • arkie0 on 09/06/2020 - 22:17

    Work internet? or a friend/family who has access to fast work internet?

    • myusername on 12/06/2020 - 16:42

      that amount will get noticed in the workplace.

      a while back i uploaded about 100gb of 4k clips to youtube.

      couple of days later email from IT please explain

  • crentist on 09/06/2020 - 22:19
    +1

    This hits a little close to home. I'm currently working remote for an office in Japan, and regularly need to dl large datasets and such, including transfer between my home and office PCs.
    If something is too big and I can't use a smaller subset, I end up just remote controlling a desktop in Japan to dl and run things over there.

    Other times, I use OneDrive. Works fast on both ends, weirdly it's often quicker to dl something on the Japan pc, upload to OneDrive, then dl from onedrive in Aus. Rather than dl from the source in Aus. Maybe MS has better local servers than whatever I'm getting.
    The situation highlights how crap our internet is, and how useful a fast connection is. On the Japan side I can dl+ul 10gb within a few minutes, then I gotta wait like 4 hours before I can use it over here. Massively unproductive.

    So whatever you do will only be your problem, their end will be super quick and easy.
    I'd just leave a PC uploading it for a day or week or whatever it will take.

  • trustnoone on 09/06/2020 - 22:21

    I don't know if you're on Telstra but I used to get free fairly fast internet through the pink wifi Telstra boxes on the street. I have no idea the speed though, so you might want to do it in batches and find one in front of a cafe.

    • JIMB0 on 10/06/2020 - 06:55

      Find one that is out of range of houses. The one near me is always too full to connect.

  • thatonethere on 09/06/2020 - 22:32

    Just post out 2 usbs in seperate envelopes

  • kenzstar on 09/06/2020 - 22:38
    +2

    Upload speeds at a university are ultra fast. Just use a friend's university login account and login to cloud storage or google photos (unlimited storage but images are compressed) to upload the photos.

  • Axelstrife on 10/06/2020 - 02:47
    +1

    If you cannot find anything you're more then welcome to use my internet 100/40 FTTP NBN https://www.speedtest.net/result/9577669972.png
    I can copy the files to my PC and upload to wherever you want that way you don't have to sit around or i give you my wifi password and you can sit out the front in you're car or whatever and do it (though 100GB even with my connection will take like 6+ hours.)

    I am located near Penrith if you are interested.

  • o53djz7qTPY4der on 10/06/2020 - 04:25

    Use two VPSs. One in Sydney and one in Japan. Upload to Sydney then remotely transfer to Japan. Provide a shared folder for the person in Japan to download from. Transfer between the VPS in Sydney and Japan will be fast!

  • dasher86 on 10/06/2020 - 08:51

    Go to a telstra shop and use their wifi?

  • vivmahi on 10/06/2020 - 09:34

    PING ms
    9
    DOWNLOAD Mbps
    48.13
    UPLOAD Mbps
    18.48

    These are my Optus NBN50 Speed test results, considering the network overhead, the total Transfer should be done overnight in 15 Hours and 44 Minutes which is not bad mate.

  • rxjb on 10/06/2020 - 09:39
    +2

    My local maccas has a 100/100 telstra air connection. Also shopping centres after hours have great bandwidth too.

    • billyb67 on 13/06/2020 - 08:27

      Alot are limited to one gig though

  • Yummy on 10/06/2020 - 09:46

    Use this, zip & upload in parts.

    • Axelstrife on 10/06/2020 - 10:43

      mega.nz has a download limit of 5GB unless you pay.

      • Yummy on 10/06/2020 - 12:36

        Danggit. :(

        Cant you zip to 5 gb x 20 separate uploads?

        • Axelstrife on 10/06/2020 - 12:39

          5GB download limit per IP address every 5 or so hours before it resets and you are able to download another 5GB.

          • Yummy on 10/06/2020 - 13:05

            @Axelstrife: That sucks lol. It used to be unlimited. So now Mega went to rapishare/rapidgator mode.

            • Axelstrife on 10/06/2020 - 13:07

              @Yummy: Must of been a while ago, ive been using Mega.nz to download less than legal media for years now and it's always had a download limit.

  • bonz on 10/06/2020 - 15:44

    Signup to the Telstra $15 5GB data plan with 1.5 Mbps cap, i found that telstra only caps the download speed, upload in my area hovers around 5-15 Mbps, should take you between 1-2 days to complete, i can then cancel it and get some credit back depending on how many days you used the sim

  • Zachary on 10/06/2020 - 20:01

    1st world problems - when you have lots of stuff you wanna backup or move online but shitty internet that won't do it in a reasonable amount of time…. If I were you, I'd probably go the USB RSD route….probably still be faster than directly uploading to him by the time that thing gets in his mailbox…..

  • Blue Cat on 12/06/2020 - 17:27
    +1

    Thanks for the discussion guys, I ended up leaving a laptop at my friend's house with fast upload speeds and got the job done in 2 days.

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