Easiest way to move a large file to another computer both on the same Internet?

Share the folder on the network.. or get a memory card/usb stick

2 ways that I would move it is either email to the other computer ,OR use a USB flash drive and do it that way.

I share folders on my home LAN all the time. Win7 makes it easy to do so. However, when you say “directly into the modem”, do you mean the modem, or the router? Or is it an all-in-one? If you mean the router or a combination router/modem then sharing the folder is far and away the fastest way, and about the easiest too.

DVD burners and large USB Flash drives also come in handy if you aren’t up for a little configuring. Not that it’s actually hard to set up a shared folder, but some people have trouble with it

@SQUEEKY2 Doing it with e-mail would take forever. There are limits to the size of attachments, so you’d practically have to do it a couple of songs at a time.

If you can’t get the home connection to work, try to use this service: http://www.filesovermiles.com/. It’s a browser-based P2P file sharing app. It connects your computer to the person who’s download the file. So basically they’re downloading from you. Since you’re only connecting via home connection, it should be pretty fast.

-flash drive
-burn a CD, DVD, etc.
-external HD
-share your files on your home network
-stream it with Windows Media Player

Ok noob question: how would I go about sharing the files on the network

I’d go with a flash drive; copying files over a network can be very slow.

@Mariah Only if you are on an oooollllddd computer. My router supports 802.11n (150Mbps), so it’s actually faster than my hard drive! In fact, even something with a 10/100 Ethernet jack (pretty much anything built in this century) can transfer twice as fast as USB 2.0, and eighty times faster than USB 1.1

@jamzzy What operating system(s) are you running? Win7 and WinXP do things a little differently from each other, and from Win98, WinME, Win2k, Linux, or OS X. You can mix-and-match Operating Systems (I share between Linux, Android, and Win7 all the time), the only catch being that you will have to follow different instructions to set each end up. Without that bit of info, we can’t walk you through it.
The basics are simple though. Just create and join a workgroup, and set the folder you want to move to be shared. Exactly how to do that varies.

@jerv Ha, interesting. Thanks for correcting me. My dad’s computer is extremely old so that must be why my experience with networks has been so slow. xD

@Mariah The connection between the CAD/CAM PC and the CNC machines I use at work runs at 4800bps (or 4.8kbps), and 4.8 < 100. Thankfully, the programs we transfer tend to run only 150bytes to 3KB.