Scott Lowe did an unscientific test which has spread like wildfire, indicating that Cyberduck takes many times longer to do transfers that four other clients. But this disparity is implausible to me. Run your own test and let us know.

I do know that Cyberduck connected to my web hoster's server in Sweden via sFTP with no intervention on his end and almost none on mine.

Wow.. that's quite a remarkable difference!

I'll look at the Duck if i get a moment, and post anything useful that i might find.

Thanks

Husky

Now son, let me explain something to you:

I was a Systems Analyst with Digital Equipment Corp, maybe before you were born. From 1980-1990 my specialty was VAX/VMS, the grandfather of modern operating systems. You may know that all we had then was command-line.

And since 1997 I have run nothing on any of my machines but Linux. I have delved deep into its power and been mercilessly punished and disgraced by half-baked distros such as Suse and Mandrake, but I still never fled into the malignant arms of Mother Borg.

A cursory examination of my posts here should show that I put high demands on my computers and expect nothing less than full control. Maybe this is in fact why you spoke up?

I do sympathize with the dated priesthood of CLI, and know that you come by it honestly. And I know that some GUI methods leave much to be desired, as I have complained about the many limitations of OS X's GUI in these forums, because know what it possible being a Debian refugee. I must use CLI to offset so many of OS X's shortcomings thusfar in these two weeks I've been using it.

But I had done my best above, to explain the intellectual difference between CLI and GUI in evolutionary terms, in hopes of elevating the discussion. Your response is disappointingly dull. Surely you can do better, but chose not to. I had hoped for more from someone who I am sure has depth, but has so far shown little evidence of it. Are you just another young anti-intellectual commoner?

You can explain all you'd like (that's what these forums are for). You seem very smart - I'm not at all denying that. But your "Son", definitely not ... my own attends University already. Thanks.

Dirisive commentary stops now. Thanks.

So, after reading all the the problems you've had with ftp clients I've had no problems with, and the nature of the problems (slow, frequent disconnects) I'm wondering if perhaps you should be using PASV but are not or vice versa.

I wonder why nobody mentioned FileZilla.