The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #93675 Message #1805350
Posted By: Stilly River Sage
09-Aug-06 - 12:55 PM
Thread Name: Tech: Query-File Transfer Protocol-huge files
Subject: Tech: Query-File Transfer Protocol-huge files
It seems that when I send files to a server using FTP it is a pretty tidy process. My daughter has a couple of games she plays that have immense files--over a gig--and they take forever to download. Is the standard dialog box and telling the computer the save the file in some particular location operating at the same speed as FTP? Is it going through a different process? Is FTP faster or the same?
Next part to this question: what FTP programs do you use? I have a free one I downloaded and use in relation to files at the university where I work. Are there commercial programs that are a little easier to use? I have had no luck making the FTP part of FrontPage or Dreamweaver work correctly, but what else is out there? My little WS_FTP95 LE does the job, in a scanty sort of fashion.
I walked into my sleeping daughter's room this morning and her computer was on from overnight. She was transferring a file from a friend's computer to hers in such a way that she'd left her Internet Security and Firewall disabled so the file would come through. That isn't acceptible and I (to her chagrin when she awoke hours later) turned on the firewall and it stopped the transfer.
Evil nasty mother is now downloading a different but similar ponderous monster onto her own computer (with security firmly in place) and will burn it to a DVD for her. This thing is going to take all day to download. What a pain. And I have to locate her programs that let her burn DVDs--part of the problem is that she hasn't explored around so she doesn't know how to use her own DVD burner, but when the computer company puts a DVD burner in the machine they provide the ability to burn DVDs. She hasn't figured that one out on any of the several computers she has access to. If the software in the computer isn't adequate (probably Roxio, which should do the job) is there a free burner from Nero these days? A friend told me he had one but I haven't gone looking to find it since I have a regular paid-for version of Nero on my computer.