Sharing a folder over the internet for file transfer. Advice needed?

I am just starting up freelance working from home again after several months but am a bit concerned as to whether my internet connection speed is sufficient to handle the largish files I may have to deal with.
I have recently moved house and gone from an area with high speed fibre optic broadband to an area where this isn't available and as such my speeds are significantly lower than before.
Downloading isn't shouldn't be such a problem - I have gone from 30mbs downstream to about 5mbs. In tests I have been able to download fairly large files in an acceptable time.
Uploading finished work is more of a concern as the upstream is severally nobbled.
I have been looking for a solution to this and was wondering if there is a way to set a folder on my Mac that my client could access and download from without me first having to upload to a server (Dropbox, WeTransfer or FTP)?
Is this possible and if so would this make a difference in terms of speed or would the recipient still be restricted by my upload speeds

Numbers-wise, if the client is going to want to access each item you want to give them at least once, it makes sense to use something like DropBox (or whatever in which the end result is you uploading it to a server).
The demand on your upload connection is at worst equivalent were the client to only ever grab it once, and the moment the client wants to grab it a second time, everyone has won for it being on a faster-connection remote server.

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julius wrote:
The actual query has over 75 columns. Its major consumption is spent on java, so I have to assume that is due to the underneath parsing process of xmltable.
You are OR doing something (horribly) wrong OR should upgrade to a database version bigger than or equal to 10.2.0.3.x
PLEASE post your database version (all digits!)
Do you mean that, even working with a local xmltable passing an xmltype variable (not an actual structured xml table), registering the schema will do good to the performance?Yep, for example avoiding those JAVA calls... validation via registered XML Schema's is optimized if not only due to its based kernel code, that is C - code
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Correct.
Then, during the xmltable processing, the engine will be smart enough to use the registered xsd info to improve the query performance? Ok, I'm a bit skeptical, but will give it a try.
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