[Hidden-tech] Transporting large files

[River Brandon]

for those of you on mac i strongly recommend trying transmit. it is,  
imho, the best ftp client out there.

http://panic.com


On Apr 1, 2006, at 8:35 AM, Jonathan Dill wrote:

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>> I have successfully used an FTP service called YouSendIt (apply  
>> the usual www and .com), which claims the ability to FTP files up  
>> to 1Gigibyte. I've never tested that limit, but have transferred  
>> files around 60Mb.
> Thank you for reminding me, I forgot I had bookmarked this page  
> which is a huge list of free / cheap file transfer services:
>
> http://www.jdempsey.com/2005/12/08/free-online-file-storagesending/
>
> I'm guessing in Ann's case, the printer / publisher already has an  
> FTP server, and she just needs to upload to their server.
>
> I strongly urge using a different password for FTP, do not use one  
> of your "standard" passwords that you use to access sensitive  
> information.  FTP passes all information "in the clear" including  
> user / password it is ridiculously easy to intercept it.  It is  
> much more secure to use SFTP, file transfer through SSH2, HTTP over  
> SSL, or at the very least a VPN from your computer to the site with  
> the server, but I imagine those options are not often available.
>
> I have found an excellent free SFTP client for Windows which also  
> supports normal FTP:
>
> http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/
>
> Jonathan
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