It sounded interesting until: Allow www.sharedrop.io to run "Adobe Flash"?<p>Then:
We're really sorry, but your browser is not supported.
Please use the latest Chrome for Desktop or Android or Opera.
Firefox support is coming soon!<p>So basically, this is a webkit app, not a HTML5 app?
This is really amazing! I had a bit of trouble on my first attempt because I was connected to a VPN, so ShareDrop was considering me to be in the 10.* range (my local IP address on the VPN) while my coworker on the same router showed up in the 192.* range. I was able to send him a file, but he obviously couldn't send me one back because he wasn't connected to the same VPN.<p>Once I disconnected from the VPN then ShareDrop starting using my local 192.* IP address instead of my remote VPN address and it worked both ways.
I believe the people of Qatar will have an issue with this because they all use a single public IP address. So any Qatari could send a another Qatari a file if they were all to log on.
"We're really sorry, but your browser is not supported.
Please use the latest Chrome for Desktop or Android or Opera.
Firefox support is coming soon!"<p>What could possibly be the reason they wouldn't support webkit based browsers?<p>Safari 7.0.2 OS 10.9.2
I opened this with the Hamachi VPN open, and suddenly could share files with my computer on the other side of the world. I have a Mac so usually do this via the built-in sharing but if it were Windows it's certainly easier than messing with Samba.
I had a look at doing this myself recently to do iPhone -> Laptop transfers. Does this work for mobile -> desktop? I didn't think that WebRTC was available on mobile safari and therefore wouldn't work.
Something similar (with a server in the middle) for android<->computer is EZ Drop: <a href="http://ez.dropper.co" rel="nofollow">http://ez.dropper.co</a>
I'm getting transfer speeds of ~970KB/s (checking using iStat). Averaging nearly 1MB/s isn't bad, but I'm curious, could this go faster?
Very cool! I love the P2P aspect.<p>I have a similar project that drops files in your dropbox account: <a href="http://dbinbox.com" rel="nofollow">http://dbinbox.com</a>
Looks like a clone of my friends page: <a href="http://www.sumodrop.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.sumodrop.com</a><p>*edit: I guess 'clone' is too strong. I meant to imply it has similar functionality, not that it is carbon copied. Yes, I goofed.
This is really cool!<p>Initially, I tried using this between a computer on my 2.4 GHz band and a computer on my 5 GHz band, and I guess the JavaScript wasn't able to determine the local IP addresses. However, after switching to the same frequency it worked.
A cross-platform (but not web-based) open-source LAN file-transfer tool that I've used in the past is dukto:<p><a href="https://code.google.com/p/dukto/" rel="nofollow">https://code.google.com/p/dukto/</a>