Posted by Doug Mazzacua on 12/07/05 06:23

On Tue, 06 Dec 2005 03:09:07 GMT, Chris Beall
<Chris_Beall@prodigy.net> wrote:

>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 ).
>>
>> 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)
>>
>LEESA,
>
>I use FTP on dialup for all of my sites. I tend to be conservative on
>page size, so it doesn't take long at all to update an entire site.
>
>For my FTP program, I use......Internet Explorer. It works fine and it
>came on my system. In fact it works better as an FTP program than as a
>browser.
>
>Chris Beall

This is exactly my experience. The FTP upload takes about as long as
a download, so if a site doesn't have a lot of video clips or other
huge files, the FTP upload with IE is no problem at all.

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