How to email big files from crappy connections
:: Sunday, June 8th, 2008 @ 8:48:11 pm
:: Tags: Computers
OK, so here’s my problem. I’m in Bonaire on a connection that drops all a time, which makes it really, really hard to do things like upload big videos for use in our live shootout coverage. This is why I had to cut one of the larger videos into three chunks, which makes for pretty disruptive viewing.
Kyte’s show uploading supports web upload and e-mail attachments. Unfortunately, neither will resume uploading if the connection fails and then comes back. But FTP does support resume, so here’s what I’ve started doing:
- FTP the video up to temp space on my server.
- SSH into my server and e-mail the video to Kyte as an attachment.
The problem with #2 is that it is non-trivial to e-mail an attachment from the command line. Chris, my server admin, installed email, and now I can easily send attachments from the command line. It is tested and working!
Too bad it took a full day to figure out…
Journal RSS 
Eric, Go to the local cable tv station (Flamingo TV) its easy to find just outside the center of the town by the large dish antenna. On the right hand side of the building is the entrance of the office of the cable internet provider. Talk to them, they might want to help you out by letting you hook you laptop directly to their server ;-)
Other option is, Michael from chat and browse. He is a nice guy but has no clue. More importantly he is also dependent on the who’s of Telbo.
During my day’s on the island, I figured out that Telbo doesn’t always pay their bills in full or on time. Causing the provider from Curacao to throttle the bandwidth…
This kind of BS is why I choose to leave the island…
Good luck :-)
Eric,
You have mail (via the form on this site).
Jake