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Download the free ftp client FileZilla http://filezilla-project.org/
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What is FTP?
FTP (File Transfer Protocol) is the simplest and most secure way to exchange files over the Internet. Whether you know it or not, you most likely use FTP all the time.
The most common use for FTP is to download files from the Internet. Because of this, FTP is the backbone of the MP3 music craze, and vital to most online auction and game enthusiasts. In addition, the ability to transfer files back-and-forth makes FTP essential for anyone creating a Web page, amateurs and professionals alike.
When downloading a file from the Internet you're actually transferring the file to your computer from another computer over the Internet. This is why the T (transfer) is in FTP. You may not know where the computer is that the file is coming from but you most likely know it's URL or Internet address.
What is an FTP Client?
An FTP Client is software that is designed to transfer files back-and-forth between two computers over the Internet. It needs to be installed on your computer and can only be used with a live connection to the Internet.
The classic FTP Client look is a two-pane design. The pane on the left displays the files on your computer and the pane on the right displays the files on the remote computer.
File transfers are as easy as dragging-and-dropping files from one pane to the other or by highlighting a file and clicking one of the direction arrows located between the panes.
Additional features of the FTP Client include: multiple file transfer; the auto re-get or resuming feature; a queuing utility; the scheduling feature; an FTP find utility; a synchronize utility; and for the advanced user, a scripting utility.
All of these features will be explained in later tutorials. First you need to download and install an FTP Client.
Source: FTP Planet
FTP (File Transfer Protocol) is the simplest and most secure way to exchange files over the Internet. Whether you know it or not, you most likely use FTP all the time.
The most common use for FTP is to download files from the Internet. Because of this, FTP is the backbone of the MP3 music craze, and vital to most online auction and game enthusiasts. In addition, the ability to transfer files back-and-forth makes FTP essential for anyone creating a Web page, amateurs and professionals alike.
When downloading a file from the Internet you're actually transferring the file to your computer from another computer over the Internet. This is why the T (transfer) is in FTP. You may not know where the computer is that the file is coming from but you most likely know it's URL or Internet address.
What is an FTP Client?
An FTP Client is software that is designed to transfer files back-and-forth between two computers over the Internet. It needs to be installed on your computer and can only be used with a live connection to the Internet.
The classic FTP Client look is a two-pane design. The pane on the left displays the files on your computer and the pane on the right displays the files on the remote computer.
File transfers are as easy as dragging-and-dropping files from one pane to the other or by highlighting a file and clicking one of the direction arrows located between the panes.
Additional features of the FTP Client include: multiple file transfer; the auto re-get or resuming feature; a queuing utility; the scheduling feature; an FTP find utility; a synchronize utility; and for the advanced user, a scripting utility.
All of these features will be explained in later tutorials. First you need to download and install an FTP Client.
Source: FTP Planet
HavocXphere
Honorary Master
Internet Explorer and Firefox can also access and download stuff from an ftp site. Just type the address into the address bar and go.
To access the SAIX ftp site, simply click here: ftp://ftp.saix.net
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Here is a few FTP Clients I know of:
*FileZilla
*AUTO FTP
*Smart FTP
*WinSCP (My Favourite)
*FileZilla
*AUTO FTP
*Smart FTP
*WinSCP (My Favourite)
The_Techie
Resident Techie
You can use FileZilla or a browser. I usually end up using FileZilla, though 
Asha'man X
Expert Member
Hey everyone
FTP is such a basic and old protocol, yet it's probably for those reasons that it's still so popular and stable.
The traffic loads have shrunk since it's heyday before P2P, but it's still a very good way to download stuff. Very efficient protocol with little enough overhead.
I will say that using it through a built in internet browser sucks though. Very very limited set of features. Use one of the tools mentioned here earlier though and things will be fine
FTP is such a basic and old protocol, yet it's probably for those reasons that it's still so popular and stable.
The traffic loads have shrunk since it's heyday before P2P, but it's still a very good way to download stuff. Very efficient protocol with little enough overhead.
I will say that using it through a built in internet browser sucks though. Very very limited set of features. Use one of the tools mentioned here earlier though and things will be fine