Solomon Posted January 9, 2008 Share Posted January 9, 2008 Which is the fastest FTP Transfer Client/Software ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bfarber Posted January 9, 2008 Share Posted January 9, 2008 I'd say most clients are about the same. Smaller clients are going to run a little bit faster, but as for the transfers that's going to be more up to your connection and your server's connection. I use SmartFTP myself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyF Posted January 9, 2008 Share Posted January 9, 2008 I've tried a few and have settled on SmartFTP. Although I hear good things about FileZilla. Its (as bfarber said) , mainly down to the server and connection speed really. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hollland Posted January 11, 2008 Share Posted January 11, 2008 I am a FileZilla fan myself and I am very happy with it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loccom Posted January 11, 2008 Share Posted January 11, 2008 filezilla is cool! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darkside_RG_merged Posted January 12, 2008 Share Posted January 12, 2008 SmartFTP does have those nice tutorials too.... :unsure: there are occassions when I cheat FTP is always some what of a risk and I prefer to avoid it although if you are on a dedicated you can improve things and only enable ftp to your ip and to your home directory and not your webspace ....however back to cheating :whistle: if say you were talking about an install use PeaZip to make a handy tarball of the upload and use the file manager for you server to upload it to some where suitable and extract it. The method will vary depending on if you have hosting / dedicated and if you have shell access or not basically you may find a single upload goes faster than an FTP client processing all the files. Just a thought you might want to try :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solomon Posted January 15, 2008 Share Posted January 15, 2008 I also tried the FTP by Ipswitch which boasts of a super fast transfer tool. It has a nice a user friendly interface, but I found it about as fast (or may be a tick faster) as the SmartFTP. I agree with bfarber that the speed is directly proportional to your connection. Now, this is a real let down for me. I have officially a 16 Mbit connection, but the local DSL (the main line) is capable of transferring only a measly 3550 kb/s and am far from the transmission node (the further you go, the worser it gets). As a result I get only around 2900 kb/s (download) and 310 kb/s (upload). As of late our cable has also geared up and capable of giving 25 Mbit and upwards, but am stuck for 2 years with the snails, as I just signed up last August. I'll definitely give the FileZilla a shot. It would have been nice and convenient with a fast transfer tool to save your complete system and server backups on the server itself as I have 1 Terrabyte of disc space at my disposal. I save my system and server backups to an external drive at the moment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BryanH Posted January 17, 2008 Share Posted January 17, 2008 Filezilla is very fast, I think. I like it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joey Matthews Posted January 17, 2008 Share Posted January 17, 2008 I've only tried smartFTP and CuteFTP. I prefer cuteFTP, as it's speeds slightly faster from what I noticed with smart. ~Joey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uberjon Posted January 20, 2008 Share Posted January 20, 2008 i like cuteftp too but it tends to lockup/crash on uploads unless its all in a single archive... if i extract IPB onto pc and then try and upload... it goes crazy :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lewis P Posted January 20, 2008 Share Posted January 20, 2008 Personally I've used SmartFTP, FileZilla, and ashamedly, Windows Explorer. :D SFTP does seem to give me faster downstream speeds than the others, but FZ gives me faster upstream. Because of me and my backup making I mostly use SFTP, but FZ definitely does the job to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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