FTP soft suggestions

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2003-04-30 12:58pm

That's right, I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions for good legal shareware FTP software, so that I can muck around with my ISP given website.... (and host some images and such...

Kelly Antilles · Post by **Kelly Antilles** » 2003-04-30 01:01pm

I use WSFTP Lite (it's a freeware, I think). Works for me, plus it's rather simple.

Crayz9000 · Post by **Crayz9000** » 2003-04-30 01:01pm

You can try getting AceFTP. It's shareware, and it nags you, but other than that it seems to work fine.

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2003-04-30 01:40pm

Thanks you two.

Hotfoot · Post by **Hotfoot** » 2003-04-30 01:47pm

Filezilla works rather well for me, and has a quite attractive and functional interface.

Post by **Beowulf** » 2003-04-30 02:11pm

Kelly Antilles wrote:I use WSFTP Lite (it's a freeware, I think). Works for me, plus it's rather simple.

Second.

Kenny_10_Bellys · Post by **Kenny_10_Bellys** » 2003-04-30 02:40pm

WS_FTP Lite for me too. I tried others but they just nagged me to death or ceased to function, but WS has always been there for me.

Einhander Sn0m4n · Post by **Einhander Sn0m4n** » 2003-04-30 02:42pm

Kenny_10_Bellys wrote:WS_FTP Lite for me too. I tried others but they just nagged me to death or ceased to function, but WS has always been there for me.

Now all I need is a domain name (no shitty Geo$hitties or ProHo$ing for me!) and I'll have as much pic space as I want!

Pu-239 · Post by **Pu-239** » 2003-04-30 03:45pm

FTP Explorer (GUI) or NCFTP(command line). I find Filezilla to be too unreliable for huge files.

Shinova · Post by **Shinova** » 2003-04-30 03:47pm

I'm using SmartFTP right now but am looking for anything better.

Post by **Dalton** » 2003-04-30 05:49pm

Cute FTP can handle file resumes, but I think it's shareware.

Vertigo1 · Post by **Vertigo1** » 2003-04-30 08:55pm

Kelly Antilles wrote:I use WSFTP Lite (it's a freeware, I think). Works for me, plus it's rather simple.

Same here. Its free if you get the LE edition. Its got alot of functionality for being a free program. The pay version only has a windows explorer-like interface.

Anywho, I've been using it for years and I've yet to run into anything that this program couldn't do.

Hotfoot · Post by **Hotfoot** » 2003-04-30 09:45pm

Pu-239 wrote:FTP Explorer (GUI) or NCFTP(command line). I find Filezilla to be too unreliable for huge files.

I'll look into them. So far, Filezilla seems to be doing more or less okay.

Pu-239 · Post by **Pu-239** » 2003-05-01 03:22pm

Well Filezilla is only unsuitable if you are trying to download Linux ISO images on a 26.4kbps connection...

I don't like to use anything with lite in the name for some reason.

Faram · Post by **Faram** » 2003-05-01 06:01pm

Blah GUI ftp clients is for wusses

Fire up a command prompt and use cmd based ftp.

Like this

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D:\>ftp
ftp> open ftp.sunet.se
Connected to ftp.sunet.se.
220-####################################################################
220-### Try accessing us on the World Wide Web! http://ftp.sunet.se/ ###
220-###                                                              ###
220-### http://ftp.sunet.se/pub/ to browse...                        ###
220-###                                                              ###
220-### http://ftp.sunet.se:8000/ftpsearch to search for filenames   ###
220-###                                                              ###
220-### http://ftp.sunet.se/mnogo/search.php to freetext search      ###
220-###                                                              ###
220-####################################################################
220-
220--> Please login with user anonymous or ftp to access our archive <-
220
User (ftp.sunet.se:(none)): anonymous
331 Please specify the password.
Password:
230 Login successful. Have fun.
ftp> binary
200 Switching to Binary mode.
ftp> hash
Hash mark printing On  ftp: (2048 bytes/hash mark)
ftp>

Be macho use the cli interfase

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2003-05-01 06:47pm

Learning the command-line FTP app is good since almost all operating systems come with it

That said, the Windows CLI FTP client doesn't support file resuming and is not easy to use PASV mode with.

salm · Post by **salm** » 2003-05-01 06:49pm

windows commander can detect hidden files.