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[gray_wolf]

I need to send 40GB of photos to several people. My upload speed is .230 MB/s.
It seems to me my best bet is to mail them a flash drive. Any tips on mailing them
1st class mail? Any problems mailing them to Mexico and Canada? I live in Texas.
Nothing illegal just common family type images.
Thanks

 

[Rob]

gray_wolf <g_wolf@howling_mad.com> wrote:

I need to send 40GB of photos to several people. My upload speed is .230 MB/s.
It seems to me my best bet is to mail them a flash drive. Any tips on mailing them
1st class mail? Any problems mailing them to Mexico and Canada? I live in Texas.
Nothing illegal just common family type images.
Thanks

Often people's download speed is much higher than upload.
In cases like this, files are often uploaded to some cloud storage
or file transfer service, so you need to upload it only once, you
can send them an e-mail containing the required info to download
the files.
Of course 40GB is still an appreciable amount of data, some people
may have download caps that prevent them from downloading it.
You can consider to shrink the photos using one of the available
programs that can do this. Today people often have photos in native
camera resolution that take several MB per photo, while a simple
snapshot for family usage can be compressed to 200kB easily without anyone
noticing. When you upload both versions as a separate collection,
those that want high quality can download the large one.

Mailing flash drives in a normal envelope usually leads to disaster,
due to mechanical processing of the mail. You will need to mail
them in a sturdy envelope (carton, tyvek) and be sure it is handled
as a package, not a letter.

 

[Martin Brown]

On 23/10/2019 11:07, gray_wolf wrote:

I need to send 40GB of photos to several people. My upload speed is
.230 MB/s. It seems to me my best bet is to mail them a flash drive.
Any tips on mailing them 1st class mail? Any problems mailing them to
Mexico and Canada? I live in Texas. Nothing illegal just common
family type images. Thanks

Upload from somewhere with a much faster connection - 230k seems awfully
slow. My rural wet string was good for 448k on ADSL and went up to 1M
when ADSL 2+ was rolled out and that is on antique corroded copper.

You need to check the allowed thickness and weight to qualify as a
letter. Jiffy bags work OK especially if you put the USB thumb in a hole
cut into a piece of thick corrugated cardboard to protect it. Amazon
often send them in thin card "frustration free" packaging and most
survive OK. I have had some nearly fall out of their delivery box.

You might want to cut the size down to 32GB since they are presently
about the sweet spot for cheap USB drives. I quite like this Sandisk
blade for distributing bulky content. Smaller than most.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/SanDisk-SDCZ50-032G-FFP-Cruzer-Blade-Flash/dp/B007PYBNSC/

If you know the recipients can handle them then sD card cuts the size
and weight down to something you can include inside a Christmas card.

--
Regards,
Martin Brown

 

DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno@decadence.org wrote in news:qopc7v$1tkn$1
@gioia.aioe.org:

Rob <nomail@example.com> wrote in
news:slrnqr0bl5.479.nomail@xs9.xs4all.nl:

gray_wolf <g_wolf@howling_mad.com> wrote:
I need to send 40GB of photos to several people. My upload speed
is .230 MB/s. It seems to me my best bet is to mail them a flash
drive. Any tips on mailing them 1st class mail? Any problems
mailing them to Mexico and Canada? I live in Texas. Nothing
illegal just common family type images. Thanks

Often people's download speed is much higher than upload.
In cases like this, files are often uploaded to some cloud storage
or file transfer service, so you need to upload it only once, you
can send them an e-mail containing the required info to download
the files.
Of course 40GB is still an appreciable amount of data, some people
may have download caps that prevent them from downloading it.
You can consider to shrink the photos using one of the available
programs that can do this. Today people often have photos in
native camera resolution that take several MB per photo, while a
simple snapshot for family usage can be compressed to 200kB easily
without anyone noticing. When you upload both versions as a
separate collection, those that want high quality can download the
large one.

Mailing flash drives in a normal envelope usually leads to
disaster, due to mechanical processing of the mail. You will need
to mail them in a sturdy envelope (carton, tyvek) and be sure it
is handled as a package, not a letter.


This job is pretty hardy...
Should work with an ordinary padded envelope.

https://www.amazon.com/Samsung-BAR-Plus-64GB-MUF-
64BE4/dp/B07BPHN7LV?th=1

The 64GB is at 200MB/s and the 128GB is at 300MB/s.
Both are very nice, and the case is very strong.

Using an online server has a cost at the GB level you are at.

That should have been prefaced with "I think", as in I think they
charge after a certain point.

So, some may even have 1T available free, but ISTR (from years ago
tho) that the limit is like 10GB or such free and money for more.
The number may be higher now.

 

Rob <nomail@example.com> wrote in
news:slrnqr0bl5.479.nomail@xs9.xs4all.nl:

gray_wolf <g_wolf@howling_mad.com> wrote:
I need to send 40GB of photos to several people. My upload speed
is .230 MB/s. It seems to me my best bet is to mail them a flash
drive. Any tips on mailing them 1st class mail? Any problems
mailing them to Mexico and Canada? I live in Texas. Nothing
illegal just common family type images. Thanks

Often people's download speed is much higher than upload.
In cases like this, files are often uploaded to some cloud storage
or file transfer service, so you need to upload it only once, you
can send them an e-mail containing the required info to download
the files.
Of course 40GB is still an appreciable amount of data, some people
may have download caps that prevent them from downloading it.
You can consider to shrink the photos using one of the available
programs that can do this. Today people often have photos in
native camera resolution that take several MB per photo, while a
simple snapshot for family usage can be compressed to 200kB easily
without anyone noticing. When you upload both versions as a
separate collection, those that want high quality can download the
large one.

Mailing flash drives in a normal envelope usually leads to
disaster, due to mechanical processing of the mail. You will need
to mail them in a sturdy envelope (carton, tyvek) and be sure it
is handled as a package, not a letter.

This job is pretty hardy...
Should work with an ordinary padded envelope.

<https://www.amazon.com/Samsung-BAR-Plus-64GB-MUF-
64BE4/dp/B07BPHN7LV?th=1>

The 64GB is at 200MB/s and the 128GB is at 300MB/s.
Both are very nice, and the case is very strong.

Using an online server has a cost at the GB level you are at.

 

Martin Brown <'''newspam'''@nezumi.demon.co.uk> wrote in
news:qopcub$162$1@gioia.aioe.org:

On 23/10/2019 11:07, gray_wolf wrote:
I need to send 40GB of photos to several people. My upload speed
is .230 MB/s. It seems to me my best bet is to mail them a flash
drive. Any tips on mailing them 1st class mail? Any problems
mailing them to Mexico and Canada? I live in Texas. Nothing
illegal just common family type images. Thanks

Upload from somewhere with a much faster connection - 230k seems
awfully slow. My rural wet string was good for 448k on ADSL and
went up to 1M when ADSL 2+ was rolled out and that is on antique
corroded copper.

You sure that was "on copper"?

Oh and cable modems have ALWAYS had a slower up-fiber connection
that their down rate. Those were original choices made by the cable
provider back when motorola and they made the spec.

My Cox connection started out as only 150kb/s back in the late '90s.

I can now up at nearly 500Mb/s

DL is at 100Mb/s (actually more).

You need to check the allowed thickness and weight to qualify as a
letter. Jiffy bags work OK especially if you put the USB thumb in
a hole cut into a piece of thick corrugated cardboard to protect
it. Amazon often send them in thin card "frustration free"
packaging and most survive OK. I have had some nearly fall out of
their delivery box.

A piece of cardboard does NOT "protect" a USB stick in an envelope.
Several mm of card stock hard laminated together with a necting cup
in it would, but ordinary corregated cardboard box stuff? No way.

You might want to cut the size down to 32GB since they are
presently about the sweet spot for cheap USB drives.

Naaah... 64GB is now. And they are faster usually.

I quite like
this Sandisk blade for distributing bulky content. Smaller than
most.

I have been buying Samsung as I feel that sandisk has dropped the
ball on good package design. They also do not always live up to
their speed claims either. I guess if the initial burst is at a
certain rate, that is what they claim.

snip

If you know the recipients can handle them then sD card cuts the
size and weight down to something you can include inside a
Christmas card.

Tiny micro-SD flash chips are the smallest form factor.

Hard USB drives can be great devices as gifts because they can be
carried around in a pocket and further utilized by the recipient
after the initial content delivery. Two gifts in one. They also
plug right into smart TVs so the recipient can plug it right in and
start veiwing photos.

The only issue I see is that as USB-C is phased in. I have dual
I/O drives (sticks) for that, and that drive connects to newer phones
directly.

 

gray_wolf <g_wolf@howling_mad.com> wrote in
news:GpYrF.60705$VU2.49034@fx12.iad:

On 10/23/2019 6:18 AM, Martin Brown wrote:
On 23/10/2019 11:07, gray_wolf wrote:
I need to send 40GB of photos to several people. My upload speed
is .230 MB/s. It seems to me my best bet is to mail them a flash
drive. Any tips on mailing them 1st class mail? Any problems
mailing them to Mexico and Canada?  I live in Texas. Nothing
illegal just common family type images. Thanks

Upload from somewhere with a much faster connection - 230k seems
awfull
y slow.
My rural wet string was good for 448k on ADSL and went up to 1M
when AD
SL 2+ was
rolled out and that is on antique corroded copper.

You need to check the allowed thickness and weight to qualify as
a lett
er. Jiffy
bags work OK especially if you put the USB thumb in a hole cut
into a p
iece of
thick corrugated cardboard to protect it. Amazon often send them
in thi
n card
"frustration free" packaging and most survive OK. I have had some
nearl
y fall
out of their delivery box.

You might want to cut the size down to 32GB since they are
presently ab
out the
sweet spot for cheap USB drives. I quite like this Sandisk blade
for distributing bulky content. Smaller than most.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/SanDisk-SDCZ50-032G-FFP-Cruzer-Blade-Flas
h/dp/
B007PYBNSC/

If you know the recipients can handle them then sD card cuts the
size a
nd weight
down to something you can include inside a Christmas card.


Martin, Thanks for the reply! I thought about the SD cards. I'll
check on the peoples
hardware and skill level. I can cut the size down. You'd think
most people would know a nerd that could help with an SD card.
Thanks for the packaging tips.

Most laptops have SD reader slots, so a micro-sd chip would need to
go in the usually also provided carrier that restores the original
form factor, which is what the laptops incorporate.

The newer, thin laptops and 'notebooks' have 'chip slots' in most
of them that no longer needs the larger carrier.

And of course, the chips usually also can be plugged into one's
phone, if it is not a Clinton era Blackberry or such.

 

gray_wolf <g_wolf@howling_mad.com> wrote in
news:NgYrF.60704$VU2.36039@fx12.iad:

On 10/23/2019 5:42 AM, Rob wrote:
gray_wolf <g_wolf@howling_mad.com> wrote:
I need to send 40GB of photos to several people. My upload speed
is .230 MB/s. It seems to me my best bet is to mail them a flash
drive. Any tips on mailing them 1st class mail? Any problems
mailing them to Mexico and Canada? I live in Texas. Nothing
illegal just common family type images. Thanks

Often people's download speed is much higher than upload.
In cases like this, files are often uploaded to some cloud
storage or file transfer service, so you need to upload it only
once, you can send them an e-mail containing the required info to
download the files.
Of course 40GB is still an appreciable amount of data, some
people may have download caps that prevent them from downloading
it. You can consider to shrink the photos using one of the
available programs that can do this. Today people often have
photos in native camera resolution that take several MB per
photo, while a simple snapshot for family usage can be compressed
to 200kB easily without anyone noticing. When you upload both
versions as a separate collection, those that want high quality
can download the large one.

Mailing flash drives in a normal envelope usually leads to
disaster, due to mechanical processing of the mail. You will
need to mail them in a sturdy envelope (carton, tyvek) and be
sure it is handled as a package, not a letter.


Rob, Thanks for your reply! My down load speed is 2.7 MB/s on a
fast connection. Thankfully I don't upload much. I did spend 36
hours sending some stuff to my brother's NAS ftp server. Got some
mail from Google Fiber yesterday saying high speed fiber is coming
but didn't give a firm date.

That's what I was looking for safe packaging info. I only need to
send three at the moment. The thought occurred that perhaps I
could rent some tine on a fast ftp server but search didn't turn
up any thing. Thanks again.

You can use a smaller, free server, and simply upload a partial
archive (some of the files). Tell the recipients to let you know
once they have them, then delete those and upload the next block.
Lather, rinse, repeat.

 

[Winfield Hill]

gray_wolf wrote...

If you know the recipients can handle them then SD card
cuts the size and weight down to something you can
include inside a Christmas card.

Martin, Thanks for the reply! I thought about the SD cards.

Some USB drives are really thin. The Kingston Digital
DataTraveler SE9 has a strong metal case, costs only $6.


--
Thanks,
- Win

 

[gray_wolf]

On 10/23/2019 6:18 AM, Martin Brown wrote:

On 23/10/2019 11:07, gray_wolf wrote:
I need to send 40GB of photos to several people. My upload speed is
.230 MB/s. It seems to me my best bet is to mail them a flash drive.
Any tips on mailing them 1st class mail? Any problems mailing them to
Mexico and Canada?  I live in Texas. Nothing illegal just common
family type images. Thanks

Upload from somewhere with a much faster connection - 230k seems awfully slow.
My rural wet string was good for 448k on ADSL and went up to 1M when ADSL 2+ was
rolled out and that is on antique corroded copper.

You need to check the allowed thickness and weight to qualify as a letter. Jiffy
bags work OK especially if you put the USB thumb in a hole cut into a piece of
thick corrugated cardboard to protect it. Amazon often send them in thin card
"frustration free" packaging and most survive OK. I have had some nearly fall
out of their delivery box.

You might want to cut the size down to 32GB since they are presently about the
sweet spot for cheap USB drives. I quite like this Sandisk blade for
distributing bulky content. Smaller than most.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/SanDisk-SDCZ50-032G-FFP-Cruzer-Blade-Flash/dp/B007PYBNSC/

If you know the recipients can handle them then sD card cuts the size and weight
down to something you can include inside a Christmas card.

Martin, Thanks for the reply! I thought about the SD cards. I'll check on the
peoples
hardware and skill level. I can cut the size down. You'd think most people would
know a nerd that could help with an SD card. Thanks for the packaging tips.

 

[gray_wolf]

On 10/23/2019 5:42 AM, Rob wrote:

gray_wolf <g_wolf@howling_mad.com> wrote:
I need to send 40GB of photos to several people. My upload speed is .230 MB/s.
It seems to me my best bet is to mail them a flash drive. Any tips on mailing them
1st class mail? Any problems mailing them to Mexico and Canada? I live in Texas.
Nothing illegal just common family type images.
Thanks

Often people's download speed is much higher than upload.
In cases like this, files are often uploaded to some cloud storage
or file transfer service, so you need to upload it only once, you
can send them an e-mail containing the required info to download
the files.
Of course 40GB is still an appreciable amount of data, some people
may have download caps that prevent them from downloading it.
You can consider to shrink the photos using one of the available
programs that can do this. Today people often have photos in native
camera resolution that take several MB per photo, while a simple
snapshot for family usage can be compressed to 200kB easily without anyone
noticing. When you upload both versions as a separate collection,
those that want high quality can download the large one.

Mailing flash drives in a normal envelope usually leads to disaster,
due to mechanical processing of the mail. You will need to mail
them in a sturdy envelope (carton, tyvek) and be sure it is handled
as a package, not a letter.

Rob, Thanks for your reply! My down load speed is 2.7 MB/s on a fast connection.
Thankfully I don't upload much. I did spend 36 hours sending some stuff to my
brother's NAS ftp server. Got some mail from Google Fiber yesterday saying high
speed fiber is coming but didn't give a firm date.

That's what I was looking for safe packaging info. I only need to send three
at the moment. The thought occurred that perhaps I could rent some tine on a fast
ftp server but search didn't turn up any thing. Thanks again.

 

[Martin Brown]

On 23/10/2019 12:55, DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno@decadence.org wrote:

Martin Brown <'''newspam'''@nezumi.demon.co.uk> wrote in
news:qopcub$162$1@gioia.aioe.org:

On 23/10/2019 11:07, gray_wolf wrote:
I need to send 40GB of photos to several people. My upload speed
is .230 MB/s. It seems to me my best bet is to mail them a flash
drive. Any tips on mailing them 1st class mail? Any problems
mailing them to Mexico and Canada? I live in Texas. Nothing
illegal just common family type images. Thanks

Upload from somewhere with a much faster connection - 230k seems
awfully slow. My rural wet string was good for 448k on ADSL and
went up to 1M when ADSL 2+ was rolled out and that is on antique
corroded copper.

You sure that was "on copper"?

Absolutely. If it was on fibre even part of the way then I would have
about 5MB like they do in the next village. And equally if there was any
aluminium copper joints in the signal path I'd be lucky to get 256k.

Oh and cable modems have ALWAYS had a slower up-fiber connection
that their down rate. Those were original choices made by the cable
provider back when motorola and they made the spec.

UK isn't strong on cable modems except in the cities. Cable TV was very
late in the UK compared to many other countries. ADSL was slow to arrive
here and for a long while was limited to 2Mbps down 448k up.

You need to check the allowed thickness and weight to qualify as a
letter. Jiffy bags work OK especially if you put the USB thumb in
a hole cut into a piece of thick corrugated cardboard to protect
it. Amazon often send them in thin card "frustration free"
packaging and most survive OK. I have had some nearly fall out of
their delivery box.

A piece of cardboard does NOT "protect" a USB stick in an envelope.
Several mm of card stock hard laminated together with a necting cup
in it would, but ordinary corregated cardboard box stuff? No way.

There is a sort of double layer stuff that is about right for the job.
Amazon quite often put them in the mail unprotected!

--
Regards,
Martin Brown

 

DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno@decadence.org wrote in news:qopl8i$18k4$1
@gioia.aioe.org:

gray_wolf <g_wolf@howling_mad.com> wrote in
news:NgYrF.60704$VU2.36039@fx12.iad:

On 10/23/2019 5:42 AM, Rob wrote:
gray_wolf <g_wolf@howling_mad.com> wrote:
I need to send 40GB of photos to several people. My upload speed
is .230 MB/s. It seems to me my best bet is to mail them a flash
drive. Any tips on mailing them 1st class mail? Any problems
mailing them to Mexico and Canada? I live in Texas. Nothing
illegal just common family type images. Thanks

Often people's download speed is much higher than upload.
In cases like this, files are often uploaded to some cloud
storage or file transfer service, so you need to upload it only
once, you can send them an e-mail containing the required info to
download the files.
Of course 40GB is still an appreciable amount of data, some
people may have download caps that prevent them from downloading
it. You can consider to shrink the photos using one of the
available programs that can do this. Today people often have
photos in native camera resolution that take several MB per
photo, while a simple snapshot for family usage can be compressed
to 200kB easily without anyone noticing. When you upload both
versions as a separate collection, those that want high quality
can download the large one.

Mailing flash drives in a normal envelope usually leads to
disaster, due to mechanical processing of the mail. You will
need to mail them in a sturdy envelope (carton, tyvek) and be
sure it is handled as a package, not a letter.


Rob, Thanks for your reply! My down load speed is 2.7 MB/s on a
fast connection. Thankfully I don't upload much. I did spend 36
hours sending some stuff to my brother's NAS ftp server. Got some
mail from Google Fiber yesterday saying high speed fiber is coming
but didn't give a firm date.

That's what I was looking for safe packaging info. I only need to
send three at the moment. The thought occurred that perhaps I
could rent some tine on a fast ftp server but search didn't turn
up any thing. Thanks again.





You can use a smaller, free server, and simply upload a partial
archive (some of the files). Tell the recipients to let you know
once they have them, then delete those and upload the next block.
Lather, rinse, repeat.

I just thought of a way to get a larger overall storage capacity.

Have you three recipients and yourself create an account on said
service. Then share your passwords with each other, then YOU, as the
person needing to pass the archive to all, log onto each and upload
partial blocks of the complete archive to each. Then each recipient
then logs onto each and DLs the data. The more folks involved, the
bigger the capacity. Albeit slightly more labor intensive on the
collection side. Your recipients need to decide if they want 40GB on
their drive or would having it on a stick be a better choice anyway.

As far as the small free server utilization capacity idea goes
though...

Easy, peasy, stack 'em up sleazy...

 

[gray_wolf]

On 10/23/2019 8:22 AM, Winfield Hill wrote:

gray_wolf wrote...

If you know the recipients can handle them then SD card
cuts the size and weight down to something you can
include inside a Christmas card.

Martin, Thanks for the reply! I thought about the SD cards.

Some USB drives are really thin. The Kingston Digital
DataTraveler SE9 has a strong metal case, costs only $6.

Thanks! That looks just the ticket. Don't suppose the post office would kill it?

 

gray_wolf <g_wolf@howling_mad.com> wrote in
news:mVYrF.635361$oJ2.124328@fx46.iad:

On 10/23/2019 8:22 AM, Winfield Hill wrote:
gray_wolf wrote...

If you know the recipients can handle them then SD card
cuts the size and weight down to something you can
include inside a Christmas card.

Martin, Thanks for the reply! I thought about the SD cards.

Some USB drives are really thin. The Kingston Digital
DataTraveler SE9 has a strong metal case, costs only $6.



Thanks! That looks just the ticket. Don't suppose the post office
would kill it?

Unless it is made from lead or DU, and you only put one stamp on
it.

You'd (apparently) be amazed at what gets put into an envelope and
sent USPS.

 

Martin Brown <'''newspam'''@nezumi.demon.co.uk> wrote in
news:qopobj$1n6r$1@gioia.aioe.org:

Absolutely. If it was on fibre even part of the way then I would
have about 5MB like they do in the next village. And equally if
there was any aluminium copper joints in the signal path I'd be
lucky to get 256k.

Cannot aggree.

ADSL from the get go was digital, and that meant ISDN from your first
hop out and back. So *your* last link drop was copper, but the first
switch house it hit was ISDN and fiber from that point forward. That
started (being put in) in 1988.

 

[Winfield Hill]

jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote...

The microwave dishes are astounding. ...

https://www.dropbox.com/s/z4kz2j7ikii3b0z/Monkey_Brains_Dish.JPG?raw=1

Unfortunately, when you Google, Monkey Brains Dish, you get ...
dishes of monkey brains, uggh!


--
Thanks,
- Win

 

On Wed, 23 Oct 2019 15:33:23 +0100, Martin Brown
<'''newspam'''@nezumi.demon.co.uk> wrote:

On 23/10/2019 12:55, DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno@decadence.org wrote:
Martin Brown <'''newspam'''@nezumi.demon.co.uk> wrote in
news:qopcub$162$1@gioia.aioe.org:

On 23/10/2019 11:07, gray_wolf wrote:
I need to send 40GB of photos to several people. My upload speed
is .230 MB/s. It seems to me my best bet is to mail them a flash
drive. Any tips on mailing them 1st class mail? Any problems
mailing them to Mexico and Canada? I live in Texas. Nothing
illegal just common family type images. Thanks

Upload from somewhere with a much faster connection - 230k seems
awfully slow. My rural wet string was good for 448k on ADSL and
went up to 1M when ADSL 2+ was rolled out and that is on antique
corroded copper.

You sure that was "on copper"?

Absolutely. If it was on fibre even part of the way then I would have
about 5MB like they do in the next village. And equally if there was any
aluminium copper joints in the signal path I'd be lucky to get 256k.

Oh and cable modems have ALWAYS had a slower up-fiber connection
that their down rate. Those were original choices made by the cable
provider back when motorola and they made the spec.

UK isn't strong on cable modems except in the cities. Cable TV was very
late in the UK compared to many other countries. ADSL was slow to arrive
here and for a long while was limited to 2Mbps down 448k up.

We have microwave service at work, for internet and phones. It's line
of sight to another dish maybe 1/4 mile away. We pay for 50+50 mbps
and get close to 500+500.

To get fiber, we would have had to pay to dig up a block of sidewalk.

The microwave dishes are astounding. The pair has RJ45s and acts like
a piece of CAT6 at 1 GBPS. The pair of dishes costs something
incredible like $140.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/z4kz2j7ikii3b0z/Monkey_Brains_Dish.JPG?raw=1


There's a small village north of here that had no internet service so
one guy got a dish pair and connects to the other side of Bodega Bay,
and provides data for his neighbors.



--

John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc

lunatic fringe electronics

 

[Rick C]

On Wednesday, October 23, 2019 at 6:07:07 AM UTC-4, gray_wolf wrote:

I need to send 40GB of photos to several people. My upload speed is .230 MB/s.
It seems to me my best bet is to mail them a flash drive. Any tips on mailing them
1st class mail? Any problems mailing them to Mexico and Canada? I live in Texas.
Nothing illegal just common family type images.
Thanks

Wow, that's 44 hours of upload time. Still not inconceivable. However, it's still a bear even with typical higher speed connections like 10 or even 100 Mbps. Your speed is actually 2 Mbps, so at the low end, but not ridiculous.

I was going to suggest you use the link at your local library or coffee shop, but unless they have a seriously high speed link you would still be there for hours.

Yeah, for 40 GB I suspect the flash card or USB drive is best. A 64 GB SD card can be mailed between two pieces of card stock (cereal box cardboard) in an envelope. Use one of those rather small envelopes or it might end up weighing more than the base 1 oz. Also, use tape to seal the two cards together so the SD card won't slide out from between them.

--

Rick C.

- Get 1,000 miles of free Supercharging
- Tesla referral code - https://ts.la/richard11209

 

[John Larkin]

On Wed, 23 Oct 2019 20:03:58 +0000 (UTC),
DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno@decadence.org wrote:

jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote in
news:m9t0retirqlve4nb60stoqq4hm5d3389sd@4ax.com:


There's a small village north of here that had no internet service so
one guy got a dish pair and connects to the other side of Bodega Bay,
and provides data for his neighbors.


Far out.

I used to climb phone pole guy wires (hand over hand) and pull traps
off neighbors' cable feeds.

Ricky likes to steal electricity to charge his Tesla.

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John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc
picosecond timing precision measurement

jlarkin att highlandtechnology dott com
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