Best Free FTP Client

I've used FireFTP for years. I have not tried it out since I got Windows 7 with Fx 9.0.1 but I do have it in place ready to go.

I've moved up to 135 MB with it in one operation

The maximum file size that FireFTP can download at this time is 4 GB .Really!!! I can't use it then.. Will stick to portable filezilla,not that i am impressed by it either(pretty slow on large single files..)

Cyberduck is available for Windows as well as Mac.

I've been using LeechFTP for years. Excellent free app.
Great feature set including multithreading for simultaneous transfers. helps increase total bandwidth use. no site-to-site.
Unfortunately original developer abandoned it and so its been picked up by another... finally.
http://www.leechftp.org/

As a developer Filezilla has been causing me loads of problems as it always disconnects after file transfer even with the setting supposedly disabled or set to a very high number. When making small changes with a client on the phone the constant connecting seems to cause the server to block me and sometimes even causes the site to go down!

Just downloaded Core and whilst it looks basic it is lightning fast and does seem to hold the connection open as I have set it to.

great post, just saved me an hour of finding all the information you have presented here.

Have been trying out FileZilla af found it nice and easy to use.

After a day of use my firewall started going ballistic because FileZilla was initiating SOCKS 5 connections. FileZilla was not setup to facilitate this and I find this disappointing as a number of viruses have an affinity for SOCKS 5 as a means of propagating themselves.

I have tried Filezilla, Core and WS_FTP.

WS_FTP is nice but lacks bandwith throttling critical in offices. Nothing like sucking up all the bandwith.

Core (even the light - Free) has throttling. It is a very frendly and robust program but lacks a few SSH variations.

Filezilla is a more complex setup/use because it is flexable. Allows bandwidth throttling and has extensive SSH variables. (but being opensource may have issues with HIPAA or SOX due to internal policys)

Don't forget web-ftp clients, many people don't need full-blown FTP software (or don't have time to learn it) and for them web-ftp may work. Check out web-ftp.org, or if you need hosting for it there's places like Online Institute's ftp hosting that includes web-based ftp access -- then all you need is a web browser, nothing to download etc. another web-based solution is net2ftp -- lots of options but web-ftp is definitely a solution for some

FTP clients in my experience, the most important variable is speed. It is so frustrating when you need to upload 11 meg and all you are getting is 4.7kb/sec. Which is actually normal, surely today we should be able to do better.

I have tried

ftp wanderer
FileZilla

I also decided to try
GOFTP which appears to be fastest.

Coffeecup FTP looks good too but I have not tried it yet.

I would like to see Rush FTP tested. It got converted to a free version since version 2.0 (release date 25th of August 2010).

This article was last updated August 24th 2009 and, since then, Cyberduck has been released for Windows Systems!

Cyberduck

http://cyberduck.ch/

Open source FTP, SFTP, WebDAV, Cloud Files,
Google Docs & Amazon S3 Browser for Mac & Windows.

FireFtp is a very good application. The irony is Firefox seems to be very unstable in recent months but FireFtp is very stable and reliable. The only problem I run into if my source files are located on my companies share. It often hangs when I try path out to a network share.

All around I feel CoreFtp Lite is best all around.

1. Ease of use
2. Intuitive UI
3. Reliable
4. Easy connectivity
5. Accurate measure of transfer rates

I'm taking an HTML class and need to upload my assignments. I've not done this before so I need something that's intuitive. Suggestions?

Sandee

I've tried many FTP clients over the years and FireFTP has come to be my standard. I like it so much more than any stand-alone clients I've used that, even though I've since switched my default general-usage browser to Chrome, I still use FireFTP as my default FTP client. Pretty much the only reason I ever use Firefox anymore (besides for web-development testing) is for FireFTP.

That said, it's starting to become more of a pain to use, since I rarely have Firefox open anymore unless I need FireFTP. On top of that, FireFTP, in my personal experience and opinion, has always had connectivity-consistency and error-recovery problems. I can't tell you how many times I've queued up a huge list of files for transfer, walked away (or started working on something else), and have come back to find that my queue balked at e.g. file #3, couldn't seem to recover, and FireFTP has been sitting there "Working..." on some apparently important, but failing (and invisible) recovery process ever since.

Many times I end up having to not only disconnect from the site, but also close and reopen the FireFTP tab, or it won't fully recover. This is especially a problem when using high-latency connections (such as transferring files over wireless or an otherwise poor connection). However even on good connections, a large list of files, or even a small list of big files (~50MB or greater on avg.) tends to choke FireFTP. Generally FireFTP is fantastic, but seems to lack a robust recovery implementation.

Of course, it's saying something that I've continued to use it for all this time despite my gripes. But I think I'm now finally in the market for a new, standalone, more stable solution. And as usual, thanks to Gizmo, I have several to try.

The best 100% FREEWARE FTP client in the world for Windows is FTP Wonderer by Pablo Software Solutions.

* No installation necessary;
* Portable by native;
* Connection library;
* XML configuration file;
* Windows Explorer like interface;
* Very small size and memory footprint;
* Simple, straight forward & does it's job very well;
* Quee facility, with simoultenous multiple connections;
* Remote server file system treeview navigation;
* Hotlinking with local path for remote path;
* Custom command support;

Website: http://www.pablosoftwaresolutions.com/html/ftp_wanderer.html

There is only another FTP client that can beat this one, with a little nag, SmartFTP Client.

Thanks to everyone who suggested bitkinex! It was exactly what I was looking for!

Check out Free FTP Commander at http://www.internet-soft.com/ftpcomm.htm

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Is there an FTP client that allows:
~ Has a master password (so someone using my PC can't access my sites via FTP)
~ Allows creation of profiles (log on to the client &/or the profile?)
~ Client could access passwords on a password manager (like Roboform)
~ Can be launched from a flash drive?

Of course, for security reasons, I could not save the passwords, but that gets tedious...

AnyConnect has Telnet/SFTP and SSH support as well as ordinary FTP. http://anyconnect.net

I highly recommend CoreFTP.

CoreFTP allows me to select the file exists action on every upload. Filezilla's selection doesn't override the option selected as a default.

FireFTP and Filezilla are constantly plagued by the too many network connections error message. I've never seen this error when using CoreFTP.

CoreFTP progresses much faster through the queue when skipping skipping existing files. Filezilla takes a few seconds per file to decide--about the same amount of time CoreFTP takes per directory.

I was wondering if anyone knew how to change the way file names are displayed once they are uploaded. On filezilla I can only get 24 characters.

If I put in (Mary Lou Roauclouses wedding pics at the church) I get (Mary Lou Roauclouses we). Is this file zilla or am I doing something wrong? Any suggestions anyone?
Thanks Rich

Filezilla has served me well for a year or so with smaller files but recently baulked at uploading a couple of larger wmv files (40 / 50 Mb). Whatever I did it would appear to get about 90% loaded and then seize up with a 'cannot start transfer' error message.

I installed the Fireftp add-on and the files loaded perfectly and quickly first time. Fireftp has a similar interface to Filezilla and is easily as simple to use, if not more so. That's my choice for the future!

We have a best FTP client selection. How about a best FTP server too ?

FireFTP has corrupted both uploaded and downloaded files for me.
Using other solution to download files showed that the file downloaded was OK.