Google Drive upload taking too long? Skip the upload
Uploading to Google Drive is slow because it runs at your upload speed, and a lot of home internet plans upload much slower than they download. The other person can't open anything until your upload finishes, and then they still have to download the whole file.
With KEIBIDROP you skip the upload. The file goes straight from your computer to theirs, and they can open it right away while it's still coming in, in the app or in a browser tab. It's free, there's no account and there's no file size limit.
Your upload speed decides how long it takes
Run a speed test and check the upload speed. A 10 GB file at 10 Mbps up takes about 2 hours and 15 minutes. At 50 Mbps up it takes about 27 minutes. The other person starts their download only after that.
Things that make a Drive upload faster
- Connect the computer to the router with a cable if it has a network port. Wi-Fi is often the slow part.
- Pause the other uploads on the same internet: photo backup on your phone, iCloud, OneDrive, Dropbox and backup apps.
- Zip a folder with lots of small files first. Drive uploads every file separately, so thousands of small files take longer than one big file of the same size.
- Use Google Drive for desktop for big uploads. If you upload in the browser and close the tab, the upload stops. Drive for desktop keeps going in the background, and you can pause and resume it.
- Check that you have space. A free Google account gets 15 GB, shared with Gmail and Google Photos. One file can be up to 5 TB, and on Google Workspace each user can upload 750 GB in 24 hours.
Skip the upload and send it straight to them
With Google Drive the file travels twice: first up from your computer to Google, then down to the other person. With KEIBIDROP it travels once, straight from your computer to theirs.
The file shows up on their screen right away with its name and size, and they can open it while it's still coming in. A full copy still takes as long as your upload speed needs for that size, but nobody has to sit and wait for it to finish before they start.
Private the whole way
Everything is encrypted from one device to the other, and the encryption is quantum-safe: it's built to hold up even against future quantum computers. On a direct connection the file never touches our servers. When a firewall, a hotel Wi-Fi or a mobile network blocks a direct connection, our relay passes along encrypted pieces it can't read.
Send it from the app
- Install KEIBIDROP from the install page. It's free for Mac, Windows and Linux, and there's an Android app too.
- Open it, press Copy next to your code, and send the code to the other person on WhatsApp, Signal, email or any chat app.
- They install it too, paste your code and press Add. Then they press Copy and send you their code. You paste theirs and press Add.
- You both press Connect.
- Drag the file or folder onto the window: a video, a PDF, a spreadsheet, an archive, a game, anything. It pops up on their screen and they press Save.
The how to use page has a short clip for every step.
Send it to someone who only has a browser
They don't need to install anything. They use web.keibidrop.com in Chrome or Brave.
- In KEIBIDROP, press Invite link and send them the link.
- They open the link and press Join from this browser. The page says "Code received from your invite link. Press Connect."
- They press Copy under their code and send it back to you. You paste it and press Add.
- You both press Connect.
- Drag the file onto your KEIBIDROP window. In their browser the file shows Play for videos and music, View for PDFs and photos, and Save to download it.
The video plays before the whole file gets there
When they press Play, the browser asks your computer only for the part of the video they're watching. If they skip ahead, it asks for that part next. A long video starts playing without anyone waiting for the whole file. More on this in stream files without downloading them.
The desktop app works the same way with the shared folder: your files show up as a normal folder on their computer, and when they double-click a video, only the parts they watch come over.
Measured between Singapore and Europe
| Test | Result | Conditions |
|---|---|---|
| 10 GB sent, five times each way | About 5 to 6 minutes each (30 to 37 MB/s) | Servers in Singapore and Timisoara, Romania, about 200 ms round trip, 500 Mbps line, through our relay |
| Reading from the middle of a file while a big transfer runs | Under a fifth of a second (median of 30 reads) | Same link, direct connection, July 2026 |
| Same test on Wi-Fi in Barcelona | About a tenth of a second (median) | 72 ms round trip, direct connection, July 2026 |
| Reading a file that sits on the other computer | KEIBIDROP 20 to 30 MB/s, 15 to 23 times faster than sshfs | Same link, 100 MB and 1 GB files, July 2026 |
| Opening a small part in the middle of a 1 GB file | About 16 MB came over, out of 1 GB | Server in Timisoara to a Mac on home Wi-Fi in Bucharest, through our relay, September 2026 |
Singapore and Europe are about as far apart as two computers get on the internet. Closer pairs, such as two cities in Europe, or Germany and the US, have shorter round trips, and there your own upload speed is usually the limit.
Both computers have to be on and connected while the file moves. If you need to turn yours off, ask them to press Save first, so the whole file is on their computer.
Play works on the videos and music your browser can play, and View on PDFs and photos, for files sent from the app or from another browser tab. For everything else, such as documents, spreadsheets, archives and games, they press Save.
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