ftp - advice needed

[yguy]

A good friend of mine is a professional photographer and needs to send his clients very heavy picture files, 15-25 MB each. He wants a reliable and FAST FTP program for this purpose.

Does anybody have any suggestions? Thanks.

YG

[Lin Evans]

Hi YG,

There are many good FTP programs to choose from. It all he is doing is sending image files of 15 to 25 meg (those really are not large in the realm of digital photos which can easily be up to 300 meg depending on the camera or scanned file) then he can either choose a very easy to use freeware program like FTP Commander which is easy to use and very reliable:

http://www.internet-soft.com/ftpcomm.htm

Of if he want's something with more frills he could use one of their commercial products like FTP Commander Pro.

Another good one which I have used for many years is WS_FTP Pro:

http://www.ipswitch.com/downloads/index.asp

There really isn't any appreciable difference in transfer speeds which are primarily dependent on the ISP and host. Just about any FTP program will perform essentially the same differing only in error checking protocol, etc.

Best regards,

Lin

A good friend of mine is a professional photographer and needs to send his clients very heavy picture files, 15-25 MB each. He wants a reliable and FAST FTP program for this purpose.

Does anybody have any suggestions? Thanks.

YG

[Gérard de Lux]

I use (since many years) WS-FTP Pro from Ipswitch, already recommended by Lin Evans above. I'm fully happy with it, and I run 2 websites and a big Forum, which means a lot of file transfers everyday, including slideshows of 60 MB and more, that have to be reliable.

But there are many popular and performing ftp softwares, among which Filezilla (see here) which has the great advantage of being Open Source, i.e. free, and well-known to the internet community (which means active support and advice through forums, etc.). Filezilla has also a 'portable' version, which I use when I travel, very convenient and performing too.