I am utterly in awe of someone who on one hand has the selflessness to work on an open source project as I assume you do, and yet will respond to requests from the userbase with "ftp has no native support for segmented downloads, so get a better ISP"
If you are some idealogical nutcase then sure, the argument that people should fix the internet may sound fine. Pray tell how does ISP traffic shaping fit into your world. How does living in a country with no ISP competition sound.
I have a choice of cable from one company, or a 128k satelite connection. There is no DSL where I am. The cable company chokes ftp down to 40k a second from 4pm till midnight.
Segmented transfers work, and I just went and bought cuteftp which is running 20 parallel transfers, saturating my connection as we speak.
You can claim that ftp should give max transfers, that people should punish poor ISP's, that ftp has no ability to specify file chunks - only start point. All that is worthless stacked up against a software solution that fulfills the users need, which cuteftp now does for me, with a rubbish interface and a confusing layout.
Their mac version is almost unusable. I am still happy to pay the money to get the usage from my connection.
If you are some idealogical nutcase then sure, the argument that people should fix the internet may sound fine. Pray tell how does ISP traffic shaping fit into your world. How does living in a country with no ISP competition sound.
I have a choice of cable from one company, or a 128k satelite connection. There is no DSL where I am. The cable company chokes ftp down to 40k a second from 4pm till midnight.
Segmented transfers work, and I just went and bought cuteftp which is running 20 parallel transfers, saturating my connection as we speak.
You can claim that ftp should give max transfers, that people should punish poor ISP's, that ftp has no ability to specify file chunks - only start point. All that is worthless stacked up against a software solution that fulfills the users need, which cuteftp now does for me, with a rubbish interface and a confusing layout.
Their mac version is almost unusable. I am still happy to pay the money to get the usage from my connection.