D. J. Posted May 24, 2005 Posted May 24, 2005 I hope this is the right place to put this. I recently dropped my old dial up connection and got DSL service from a different provider. I absolutely love it, btw. But an added attraction is that the new ISP offers 10 meg of personal webspace for free. I'm planning to put together a site my far-flung kin can use to keep tabs on each other (with me as their webmistress/mod of course). The problem is, the instructions say to use an FTP client to upload, and don't mention there being any other option. Now, don't laugh... at least not until I'm logged out anyway, but I've never used an FTP client. One reason is because of the reviews I've read about various clients crashing people's systems, etc. I'd never even seen one used until I studied one of the tutorials here at TCH. That example showed drag and drop uploading, and looked like something I should be able to figure out. Anyway, the one this ISP recommends is called Voyager. It too talks about drag and drop and other things I saw in the tutorial. So, is anyone here familiar with this Voyager client? What do you think of it? I've read a load of good reviews, but they read more like PR ads than regular user reviews. Any input would be appreciated. Quote
stevevan Posted May 24, 2005 Posted May 24, 2005 I haven't used Voyager, but you might want to check out some of the programs found here. Quote
TCH-Bruce Posted May 24, 2005 Posted May 24, 2005 And if you use Firefox you can get the FireFTP extension. Quote
cajunman4life Posted May 25, 2005 Posted May 25, 2005 I personally use/love FileZilla (http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/). And, keeping with my mantra (most of the time), it's open source. You gotta love that. Easy to use and set up. Quote
Guest Serpentine Posted May 25, 2005 Posted May 25, 2005 I think I have been using Leech FTP for so long that I forgot there were others out there. Quote
stevesh Posted May 25, 2005 Posted May 25, 2005 I have used Voyager - OK, but it's no SmartFTP, which I use now. LeechFTP is good, too. Most of the free FTP clients are pretty easy to use. Although they look kind of intimidating at first, all they really do is move files from one computer to another. In most cases, the default settings work just fine for anything you'll do here at TCH. Steve Quote
D. J. Posted May 26, 2005 Author Posted May 26, 2005 Well. That's the problem here. This web space isn't here at TCH. It comes compliments of Alltel ™ DSL. That's the problem. I'm used to working with a cpanel, but FTP is an oogie-boogie mystery to me. I don't even know if I have the option of fixing anything it screws up. Quote
cajunman4life Posted May 26, 2005 Posted May 26, 2005 Have you checked with alltel? It may be something as simple as using ftp.alltel.com as the domain, your ISP assigned username and password for the login. You said they have no further instructions? Quote
Guest Serpentine Posted May 26, 2005 Posted May 26, 2005 If they are like most ISP's then any FTP program will work for you. Most of them have a left and a right pane. Your computer on the left and the remote computer on the right. You just navigate to the proper place on your hard drive and either select and drag or click a button to make the transfer happen. Go to someplace like download.com and search for FTP. Find a few that you can play with and see what tickles your fancy. Quote
borfast Posted May 26, 2005 Posted May 26, 2005 I'm a huge fan of SmartFTP. I also like Firefox's FireFTP extension. Quote
carbonize Posted June 6, 2005 Posted June 6, 2005 I have tried several FTP clients. The best I found was Flash FXP which is commercial. I tried Smart FTP but it had a nasty habit of not uploading/downloading all specified files. Filezilla is a great FTP program and can use multiple connections to speed things up slightly. Quote
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