Sharing files online

Hi
I have a simple requirement but all the online tutorials I have found don't seem to offer much help for Lion.
I just want to use my new MacBook Pro to host a basic fileserver in order to transfer some large files over the internet.
It seems that in older incarnation, when you activated Web Sharing, you were given an ip address which could be (I preseume?) access from outside the local network.
If this wasn't the case, is there a way using Lion to host your own webserver. I am aware of the Lion Server which is available as a paid for app, but I do not wish to purchase it for such a simple process. Is there a way to open up a folder to the internet which I can download from when I am not connected to my local network from another computer?
Sorry if this is a rehash of questions previously answered, but I wasn't able to find an acceptable solution.
EDIT:
Forgot to add that on the webpage that is accessable locally when I turn on web sharing, it says this:
If you’re connected to the Internet, your website can also be available to friends everywhere. Just send them the address shown in Sharing preferences.

The numbers I quoted there were from speedtest.net. If you want to know what my ISP says they provide, I'm afraid I don't know.
So passing those hurdles, what in particular do I need to do in order to allow someone external to my network access a web server, assuming I can host one?
Enter your router configuration screen and search for Port Forwarding or something similar. You must forward request coming from TCP port 80 towards TCP port 80 of your Mac's local IP address.
On your Mac, simply enable Web Sharing. If it is the first time you enable Web Sharing, also click on Create Personal Website Folder, which creates the folder Sites inside your home folder.
Put files you intend to share into
~/Sites
Your personal site is available to the outside world at this address
http://yourWanIP/~your_username/
You may want to create one or more subfolders into ~/Sites and give the exact path to your correspondent like this
http://yourWanIP/~your_username/family
http://yourWanIP/~your_username/customers
And here it is what he/she get
To download the file ctrl+mouse_click on the file name, choose the appropriate option from the pop up menu.

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