FTP help

[Rupp]

Guys,
Dropped my son off at college last week and he's missing his torrent downloads. I set up an older PC as his torrent PC in hopes that he could put the files in the FTP root folder and download them at college. The problem he is encountering is after 5 minutes the FTP is timing out. He's using Internet Explorer's FTP interface. I tried on of the files last night and it downloaded fine after about 25 minutes so with this I assume it's not a timeout on the PC. I assume it's the schools network severing the connection. Is there any way to find out where the problem is and if it can't be fixed is there a way around this issue? TIA

 

[CollinR]

You might try changing to a non-standard port, if the firewall is smart enough you will not be able to FTP past 5 minutes.

 

[paulw11]

Hi,

I would try and avoid FTP altogether (particularly the FTP client in IE).

Have a look at rsync - This is a file synchronisation program that runs over ssh (basically encrypted telnet). It come from Unix but can be installed on Windows using Cygwin.

You can specify how many bits per second you want the transfer to use and you can stop and resume a transfer mid file. It is a lot more flexible and a lot more tolerant of network failures than ftp.

Paul

 

[damage]

Hi,

I would try and avoid FTP altogether (particularly the FTP client in IE).

Have a look at rsync - This is a file synchronisation program that runs over ssh (basically encrypted telnet). It come from Unix but can be installed on Windows using Cygwin.

You can specify how many bits per second you want the transfer to use and you can stop and resume a transfer mid file. It is a lot more flexible and a lot more tolerant of network failures than ftp.

Paul

i use winscp for scp (copy over ssh) http://winscp.net/eng/docs/introduction

 

[Chakara]

It's hard to tell where the problem is, but you might have him try the FileZilla client (Open Source). It at least is FAR beyond using IE to do it and may give you some better feedback.

It has a server side as well that might help..


-Chak

 

[dtreyes]

The log file on your ftp server might give you some idea why it is timing out