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What are FTP programs ?
First, you should know what is the
File Transfer Protocol. FTP programs are just the tools that uses FTP (an application layer protocol in the IP suite similar to HTTP, SMTP, SSH, Telnet, DNS, etc...) to transfer files from one host to another.
Oh so its like Limewire and Bearshare, If I'm transfering files at home between 2 computers, the speed will be faster or same as download speed ??
No, Limewire are P2P... Peer to Peer. They let several people to share files among each others. They do much more then file transfer, they provide search, etc...
FTP is much simpler. Have you ever browsed windows "shares folders" over the network? FTP lets you do that kind of stuff, but over the Internet, with a server.
You can use most browsers, like Internet explorer, to have read-only access to FTP folders. All you do is write an address in the address bar, it starts with ftp://
Here is an example: [url]ftp://www.secureftp-test.com/[/url]
The username and password for the above linke are test and test.
Windows explorer can even do that and it even lets you upload files but it's not very performant. A dedicated FTP client like Filezilla is much better.