FTP and hogh speed Internet

[John Varela]

I have been using the Emtec FTP program for years with a dial-up
connection to the Internet and been completely satisfied with it.

Then I upgraded to Verizon Fiber Optic 5 mbps service (which, by the
way, is great).

Downloads still work fine, delivering upwards of 4 mbps in practice.

But uploads are another thing. About the only uploading I do is to my
web site, and that consists of a lot of small files, from 2 to 70 kB.
After a recent vacation I had about 30 jpegs to upload. Emtec FTP
wouldn't upload more than two or three of them at a time without
hanging. Reconnecting showed that the last transfer, the one that
hung Emtec FTP, did go to completion.

I think what's happening is that the fast Internet service is
returning acknowledgement of a transfer before Emtec FTP is ready to
receive it, so Emtec FTP hangs waiting for a message that will never
arrive. I called Verizon and they said I'm probably right but there's
no way to slow down their servers (no surprise) and Emtec FTP is no
longer supported (no surprise there either).

I tried using OS/2's built in command line FTP, but the mput command
converts all the file names to lower case, which won't do since all
the jpeg files come out of the camera with uppercase names.

QUESTIONS: Is there a way to make the mput command leave cases
unchanged? (Or can someone point me to a manual for FTP.EXE?) Can
anyone recommend a GUI FTP application that will cope with high speed
Internet?

[Michael Lueck]

Post by John Varela
I think what's happening is that the fast Internet service is
returning acknowledgement of a transfer before Emtec FTP is ready to
receive it

That would be a function of the TCP/IP stack itself, not Emtec. Guess I would suggest...

1) Running eCS 1.2 MR with any stack updates there might be beyond that. (Doubt there is as that is really new, but never know)
2) If it still breaks, try to get a sniffer inbetween the OS/2 box and the Internet.

[Peter Brown]

Hi John

Post by John Varela
I have been using the Emtec FTP program for years with a dial-up
connection to the Internet and been completely satisfied with it.
Then I upgraded to Verizon Fiber Optic 5 mbps service (which, by the
way, is great).
Downloads still work fine, delivering upwards of 4 mbps in practice.
But uploads are another thing. About the only uploading I do is to my
web site, and that consists of a lot of small files, from 2 to 70 kB.
After a recent vacation I had about 30 jpegs to upload. Emtec FTP
wouldn't upload more than two or three of them at a time without
hanging. Reconnecting showed that the last transfer, the one that
hung Emtec FTP, did go to completion.
I think what's happening is that the fast Internet service is
returning acknowledgement of a transfer before Emtec FTP is ready to
receive it, so Emtec FTP hangs waiting for a message that will never
arrive. I called Verizon and they said I'm probably right but there's
no way to slow down their servers (no surprise) and Emtec FTP is no
longer supported (no surprise there either).
I tried using OS/2's built in command line FTP, but the mput command
converts all the file names to lower case, which won't do since all
the jpeg files come out of the camera with uppercase names.
QUESTIONS: Is there a way to make the mput command leave cases
unchanged? (Or can someone point me to a manual for FTP.EXE?) Can
anyone recommend a GUI FTP application that will cope with high speed
Internet?

I only have a 1Mb connection but jftp from http://www.jmethods.com/
works fine using java142_05 from
http://www.innotek.de/products/javaos2/javaos2general_e.html.

Regards

Pete

[John Varela]

On Mon, 27 Mar 2006 18:39:53 UTC, Peter Brown

Post by Peter Brown
I only have a 1Mb connection but jftp from http://www.jmethods.com/

Neat!

I downloaded, installed, and licensed it in less than five minutes.
Then I created a new folder on my web site and transferred a batch of
29 files ranging in size from 1,554 to 76,057 bytes. No hangs. Emtec
FTP hung 10 or 15 times transferring the same batch of files.

Thank you.

[Peter J Seymour]

John Varela wrote:
...

Post by John Varela
I tried using OS/2's built in command line FTP, but the mput command
converts all the file names to lower case, which won't do since all
the jpeg files come out of the camera with uppercase names.
QUESTIONS: Is there a way to make the mput command leave cases
unchanged? (Or can someone point me to a manual for FTP.EXE?) Can
anyone recommend a GUI FTP application that will cope with high speed
Internet?

Have you tried FTPPM.EXE (same directory as FTP.EXE)?
It works ok for me, although I did have to update the maintenance level.
Regards
Peter

[John Varela]

On Tue, 28 Mar 2006 08:32:46 UTC, Peter J Seymour

Post by Peter J Seymour
Have you tried FTPPM.EXE (same directory as FTP.EXE)?
It works ok for me, although I did have to update the maintenance level.

Thanks for the suggestion and no, I wasn't aware it existed. As noted
earlier, I installed JFTP and it works fine, is much more capable than
FTPPM, is free, and is platform independent, running under JAVA 1.4.

[James J. Weinkam]

Post by John Varela
On Tue, 28 Mar 2006 08:32:46 UTC, Peter J Seymour

Post by Peter J Seymour
Have you tried FTPPM.EXE (same directory as FTP.EXE)?
It works ok for me, although I did have to update the maintenance level.

Thanks for the suggestion and no, I wasn't aware it existed. As noted
earlier, I installed JFTP and it works fine, is much more capable than
FTPPM, is free, and is platform independent, running under JAVA 1.4.

I have used FTPPM for years and it is very reliable. There are a couple of
shortcomings, however.

1. Until the latest version, released with MCP1, FTPPM did not have an option
to keep the original file date.

2. The new version fixed that but broke the confirmation handling. It asks for
conformation before and after each file transfer unless you turn confirmations
off. Then it asks after each transfer on upload and after the last on download.

I "solved" these problems by backleveling to the latest pre MCP1 version of
FTPPM I could find in my backups:

ftppm.exe 149,532 .... 99-04-15 10:56:00
ftppm.hlp 58,386 .... 96-06-14 20:17:22
SETLOC1.DLL 252,755 .... 97-12-10 10:09:20

I placed these three files in g:\oldftppm and created a program object to
launch it. (It is also necessary to have .; at the beginning of LIBPATH.)
I have been using this method for over four years without a problem.

The two versions also coexist peacefully. If I need to preserve dates I either
use the new version or the command line version. Otherwise I use the old version.