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Do you download a lot of programs? Then you should check out The Free Site's roundup of the Web's best free FTP programs below.
FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol. Simply put, it is a way to copy files to and from FTP servers elsewhere on a network. And it's the most common method for downloading files onto your computer.
Some people do all their downloading through their browsers. And, indeed, for casual downloaders, your browser may be all the software you need.
But if you download a lot of files, you should check out one of the FTP programs we list below. They provide a much superior method of downloading software. They provide many handy features that can make your downloading time much more efficient. For example, some of these programs let you "tag" various files that you'd like to download while you're surfing. After you've finished a surfing session, they'll automatically go out and retrieve the files for you and then shut down your connection. Other programs will automatically reconnect and resume a failed download for you. (There are few things more annoying than losing your connection after you've downloaded 19 megabytes of a 20 megabyte file!)
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 Net Vampire - If you surf around a lot and spot files here and there that you'd like to download, then you need this ad-supported free program. Just drop-and-drop the URLs to Net Vampire and you can do all your downloading in one batch. Net Vampire resumes broken connections and restarts downloads. It's also specially designed to deal successfully with noisy servers and unreliable links. New version offers powerful features such as a built-in search engine; true site testing; and support for many proxy types, including socks.
 WS_FTP - The most widely-used FTP client on the Net. There's nothing fancy about WS_FTP, but it gets the job done and has every feature you need for basic uploads and downloads. Free for home and academic uses.
- Go!Zilla - If you download a lot of files, then you really ought to get this freeware download manager utility. Go!Zilla allows you to recover from download errors and manage and categorize files to download later (and get those files from the most responsive site.) Go!Zilla will even resume a failed download.
- Dipstick
- If you download a lot of files (like us) you really need
this essential freeware utility. Among other things, Dipstick will query various mirror
sites and tell you which will give you the fastest download. Dipstick is now also available as an Active X control. Note: Dipstick has been recently updated to fix
several bugs including a tendency to crash when trying to clean up URL lists.
- LeechFTP - There's a lot of good freeware out there for every purpose. But quality free FTP clients are rare. LeechFTP fills the void with a strong package offering many bells & whistles. This free multi-threaded Windows FTP client can do HTTP file downloads, as well. Besides English, other language versions are available, including German, Czech and Chinese
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