Posted by Jim Higson on 12/05/05 21:13

Leesa_Tay@softhome.net wrote:

> As I have mentioned a few times in here recently I plan on building a
> web page very soon at one of the sites that allow it at no cost. Some
> of them mention that they support FTP as opposed to BROWSER support.
>
> Can I use FTP, which I know stands for FILE TRANSFER PROTOCOL with a
> dial-up connection? I know it would be extremely slow and to me that's
> OK because I am a patient person (well, pretty patient ... lol ).

Maybe not actually. A nice, small static site can be made in a couple of
megs. At 3k/s that'd take about 12minutes which isn't *that* bad. Consider
the poor CPIP users: http://www.blug.linux.no/rfc1149/

> I just want to know if I can use this FTP with dial-up for my simple
> and basic page or it would be better to use the BROWSER upload method
> at their site.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> LEESA (I)

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