Many of us know about a great service called YouSendIt for sending files to other people that are simply way too big for e-mail. It is fairly fool proof and any person can figure out how to send files with it or to download those files after receiving the download link. YouSendIt will even send you an e-mail notifying you when your recipient has downloaded the files that you sent them. You can send up to a 100 mb file for free.
While YouSendIt is great, there are some severe limitations to the service. For what we do, routinely send files from 500 mb up to 2 gbs (2000 mbs) to clients, that is just way too small of a limit. You can send bigger files, but that will cost you and the maximum file size that you can send is 2 gbs. We have also heard from one of our clients that YouSendIt files are blocked in China, so if you are collaborating with anyone in China or have customers there YouSendIt is just not a viable option.
There is an alternative that we use, which provides you with all of the services of YouSendIt, but you don’t have to have an account, password or program. The uploads are faster, people in China can receive the files via this service, you can send up to 2gbs of data free and best of all, you only need a browser to use it. This service is called WeTransfer and it works great. We haven’t had any issues sending files to clients using this service and their servers are pretty fast, providing quick file upload and download. Check it out at https://wetransfer.com/.