Why 100 GB does not fit the usual tools
Email stops at tens of megabytes. Consumer sharing tools cap each transfer, a few gigabytes free and a few hundred paid, and expire the link after days; the upload runs in a browser tab over TCP, and a dropped Wi-Fi sends you back to the start. Per-GB services take 100 GB and bill for every gigabyte. None were designed for a lab, a survey team, a hospital or a render farm.
What happens over TCP when the server is far away
An ordinary upload is limited by distance, not by your line. TCP waits a round trip to learn a packet was lost, then halves its rate; on a long route with a little loss, a 1 Gbps office connection delivers a small fraction of itself. Boita’s accelerated transfer engine runs over UDP with its own rate control, climbs to your line rate and holds it whatever the distance, in parallel sessions sized to your plan; if UDP is blocked it falls back to HTTPS.
Three ways to send it with Boita
From the browser, with nothing to install: sign in, drop the files, get a link. The upload runs over the standard HTTPS path and resumes after an interruption; it suits tens of gigabytes when nothing can be installed.
From the desktop app for macOS, Windows or Linux, for full speed and resume: drop files on the send window, right-click “Send with Boita” in Finder or Explorer, or point a watch folder at an export folder; on a server, the Linux agent and boita CLI do the same.
Through a portal, when you are receiving: a link the other side uploads into, with a form, file rules, a deadline and reminders, each upload in its own inbox folder.
- Browser: nothing to install, HTTPS path, slower
- Desktop app, agent and CLI: full line rate, resume
- Portal: the other side uploads into your folder
How long 100 GB, 500 GB and 1 TB take, by plan
Throughput is the lower of your plan ceiling and your line. Plan ceilings are Free 20 Mbps, Pro 450 Mbps, Studio 2.25 Gbps and Enterprise 4.5 Gbps and up, from 45 Mbps sessions (10 Mbps on Free). 100 GB is 800,000 megabits: about 30 minutes on Pro over a 1 Gbps line, plan-limited at 450 Mbps; about 2.2 hours on Pro over a 100 Mbps home line, line-limited; about 13 minutes on Studio over a 1 Gbps line, line-limited. On Free the arithmetic gives about 11 hours at 20 Mbps, but Free includes 10 GB of storage, so 100 GB is a Pro job.
500 GB is 4,000,000 megabits: about 2.5 hours on Pro and 1.1 hours on Studio over a 1 Gbps line. 1 TB is 8,000,000 megabits: about 4.9 hours on Pro; on Studio about 2.2 hours over a 1 Gbps line and about an hour over 2.5 Gbps, where the 2.25 Gbps ceiling takes over. An ordinary TCP upload depends on distance and loss; the calculator on the home page models your route.
What the recipient sees, and what it costs
The recipient gets a page with the file list and sizes and downloads without an account, in the browser or at full speed with resume in the free app. You see who viewed and downloaded what, with the checksum recorded at transfer time verified on every download; Studio and above export the receipt as PDF and CSV. Every link has an expiry; add a download limit, a password or recipient verification (Pro and above), or a passphrase that encrypts the files before they leave your machine.
Plans are flat: Free ₹0 with 10 GB, Pro ₹499 with 1 TB, Studio ₹7,999 with 10 TB, Enterprise custom, in local currency outside India. No per-GB fee, no download charges, no size cap.