I have a client who shoots and edits video from a home office in DC for for various tv news programs in Europe. He needs to get files - frequently of several gigabytes - delivered electronically. Currently he ties up his computer for hours at a time on these transfers by uploading to clients' ftp servers.

We're going to set him up with a basic machine in his house so he can dump files there at LAN speeds and let it deal with the time to move data at Internet speeds. Whether it's an ftp client pushing, an ftp server his clients pull, or something else entirely is still up in the air.

It needs to be fairly idiot-proof for the recipient news departments, too, which is why I'm mostly looking at ftp. Is there a faster protocol that has widespread support?

He mostly works on a mac, but has the odd windows machine floating around, too. Am I missing anything else obvious?

thanks,

-jk