TSGL: Problems ftp-ing with an all NEW machine

[Ian Ramsey-Planck]

Hey Tilman,

I'm not much help with the timing out problem, my only suggestion would be
to check you've installed the correct Ethernet drivers for the motherboard
you have. Along with going into Device Manager, viewing the properties of
the network card itself and checking everything seems to be in proper
settings ( Advanced tab ).

As for the FTP problem, what program are you using? I use SmartFTP(
http://www.smartftp.com ) it has to be the easiest to use and the best I've
ever seen, you can crash the program in the middle of doing anything and
once you restart the uploading it remembers where it was and asks you if you
want it to continue from where it stopped..... have yet to see another FTP
program that could do that. 

In your FTP program, check to see that 'PASV' passive mode and 'AUTO' Auto
Transfer Type is selected, I find if PASV isn't enabled I can't connect to
any FTP server outside of my own home network. And have you tried opening
port 21 for that computer itself?

Thanks
Ian R-P
iarp at cogeco.ca
http://www.iarp.ca

-----Original Message-----
From: list-bounces at tsgserver.com [mailto:list-bounces at tsgserver.com] On
Behalf Of Tilman Brandl
Sent: February 10, 2008 7:11 AM
To: Tech Support Guy Mailing List
Subject: Re: TSGL: Problems ftp-ing with an all NEW machine

Hi Joe,

thanks for your experience with this issue

Basically the webspace I got still is brandnew - most of the 2 Gigs are 
empty! So lack of space can't be the problem, I guess. But I'll try to talk 
to my hosting provider and find out what they think about it.

Meanwhile I'm still in the process of (continuously) tweaking my new PC's 
settings. After installing a new XP system I've not only had the usual fight

with MS-related problems (had to repair the installation and then couldn't 
get any updates! That's solved now...). I also had hard times with
- frequent bluescreening
- heavy + very irregular timeout problems with my email accounts
and such.

I've made 2 steps that appear to have improved things a lot or hopefully 
will do so:
1. I've changed one of the memory related bios settings (pretty much by 
guessing), which stopped (most of) the bluescreening.

2.Then I found people on the web whose machines showed similar symptoms, and

they solved them by uninstalling nVidia's ActiveArmor firewall. I had mine 
switched off but still there... Uninstalled it too now, and am in the 
process of testing things...

So I wonder whether my ftp-problems too were or may be related to these 
unfortunate + unexpected problems. Funny enough I've spent twice as much 
money for my PC this time as ever before, thinking this would spare me 
problems with unreliable components ! HAHA ! I must've had about ten or so 
computers at home sofar, where the earliest lasted longest. Since then the 
intervals are decreasing. The last one is still standing beside my desk, 
waiting for me to find out why it stopped working.

Anyway, I'll watch things and report back here if I find out more.

Thanks again
Tilman

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Joe Titone
  To: Tech Support Guy Mailing List
  Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2008 1:02 AM
  Subject: Re: TSGL: Problems ftp-ing to my website


  At 06:05 PM 2/4/2008, you wrote:
  >Hi,
  >
  >recently I've used my new hosting provider and domain to prepare a place 
for
  >uploading files. First I used my ftp-client and could do the upload to my
  >site easily. Then I set up a new folder + ftp-user on the server with all
  >the rights necessary. When I tried to upload a +-10 MB file through my
  >browser, upload stopped close to the end, before it was finished without 
any
  >error message. Ther was no file written to that folder ... Don't know 
WHAT
  >exactly stopped it.
  >
  >What would control for instance timeout with ftp through my browser ? Is 
it
  >something on my PC, or a serverside setting?
  >Of course I'll talk to my provider, but thought I would ask you
  >knowledgeable people too...
  >
  >Thanks
  >Tilman

  My ftp client (WS_FTP) shows how much space I have and how much I've
  used.  You might check your log file.  I've also had some problems
  uploading large files even when the space available was 1GB.  In
  cases like this, I've had to email the file to the ISP and have one
  of their techs upload it.

  Joe Titone
  tertia at earthlink.net
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