more flashfxp suggestions

[Partha]

Hi Bigstar, with so many new features added, please add the following features which IMHO are a must for a tremendous FTP client like FlashFXP :

a) Multiple connections per IP
b) A speed slider/controller to increase or decrease speed .
c) An inbuilt transfer meter ( like DU Meter )
d) An inbuilt SFV checker for checking of files downloaded against a .sfv situated in the downloading folder .

A Basic FTP user like me needs all these stuffs only . I dunno what the heck is FEAT or HEAD , I only like to have more basic controls and an autochecking facility for my simple purposes. The above points are related to that only :) .

[..:::SG:::..]

Originally posted by Partha
Hi Bigstar, with so many new features added, please add the following features which IMHO are a must for a tremendous FTP client like FlashFXP :

a) Multiple connections per IP
b) A speed slider/controller to increase or decrease speed .
c) An inbuilt transfer meter ( like DU Meter )
d) An inbuilt SFV checker for checking of files downloaded against a .sfv situated in the downloading folder .

A Basic FTP user like me needs all these stuffs only . I dunno what the heck is FEAT or HEAD , I only like to have more basic controls and an autochecking facility for my simple purposes. The above points are related to that only :) .

the built-in SFV issue was addressed before so many times... i think the main argument is that an ftp client is used for FTPing. a SFV checker is used for SFV checking. it makes sense to me

[Hetfield]

Originally posted by ..:::SG:::..
the built-in SFV issue was addressed before so many times... i think the main argument is that an ftp client is used for FTPing. a SFV checker is used for SFV checking. it makes sense to me

You have a good point there, but for many people built-in SFV checking is just much easier. I have heard many conversations about this, but i don't think i heard Bigstars opinion about it ;)
Maybe this is the time to do so? :D

[Partha]

Hmmm a car is only to drive, not to illuminate it's front road while driving at night :D !!

Perhaps the above would have been a valid argument 50 years ago, not now. IMHO if lights makes driving a more convinient , even though street lights are there for illuminating the road, .sfv inbuilt checking makes any FTP client a better one even though .sfv checkers are there . Ultimately, the end user should be given the option whether to turn the car llights on or use the street lights while driving at night. Similarly the end FTP client user like me would like to have a choice whether to use an inbuilt sfv checker or use a seperate .sfv checker to solve the file verification job. Those who don't like an inbuilt .sfv checker can always turn it off :).

Here's a good application related example. FlashGet , the best download manager on Planet Earth. Not only it supports HTTP/HTTPS/FTP/MMS downloading, it also has a Site explorer, which in a sense is somewhat like a FTP client although you can only download, and that makes the life heel lot easier for many FlashGet users :) .

[bigstar]

I normally don't comment much on future plans but since this seems to come up alot, let me assure you that sfv checking is on the to-do list. We haven't been very outcoming with this because everyone has a different opinion on how sfv checking should work, our intent is to provide basic sfv support and not the hundred and one features seen in most sfv checkers.

[Shark]

Originally posted by Partha
Hi Bigstar, with so many new features added, please add the following features which IMHO are a must for a tremendous FTP client like FlashFXP :

a) Multiple connections per IP
......



This is already an feature & has been for some time now.

[MxxCon]

Partha, in the future please follow forum format, ie suggestions go in Suggestions Forum (http://forum.flashfxp.com/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=9) and not into 1st thread that you just happened to be reading.

[Partha]

Originally posted by Shark
This is already an feature & has been for some time now.

Hi Shark, you mean the feature to use two or more threads in a single FTP session is possible :) ? If yes , say I want to download file.rar from a particular FTP Site, where do I enter the value "2" or "3" so that file.rar is downloaded from the FTP using three threads simultaniously to maximize my download speed ?

[Shark]

Originally posted by Partha
Hi Shark, you mean the feature to use two or more threads in a single FTP session is possible :) ? If yes , say I want to download file.rar from a particular FTP Site, where do I enter the value "2" or "3" so that file.rar is downloaded from the FTP using three threads simultaniously to maximize my download speed ?

Sorry, I misread... Obviously shouldn't post replies in the early hours of the morning :)

That suggestion is currently being considered.

[ND-]

Originally posted by Partha
a) Multiple connections per IP
b) A speed slider/controller to increase or decrease speed .
c) An inbuilt transfer meter ( like DU Meter )
d) An inbuilt SFV checker for checking of files downloaded against a .sfv situated in the downloading folder .


a: There's a reason to why most ftp's limit to "1 connection per IP"

b: Yea... going into options->tranfer and setting a number for allowed speed is so painfull.

c: I got nothing there.

d: Actually been brought up before, several times.. you can setup an event to run external sfv checker. (Don't bother commenting about 'I want it to re-queue if it failed' crap. You wont die having to redownload a file again manual later.)

[melter]

how can you "set up an event"

[ND-]

It's in one of the other dozen threads about sfv checking. I didn't pay much attention to it since I don't find launching an external sfv checking to be a major problem to my ftp experience.

[DayCuts]

Originally posted by Partha
c) An inbuilt transfer meter ( like DU Meter )
Hmm, u mean other than the 'statistics' tab in the site manager? if so please explain how your suggestion would be different than the tracking feature already in place.

[Partha]

Originally posted by ND-
a: There's a reason to why most ftp's limit to "1 connection per IP"

b: Yea... going into options->tranfer and setting a number for allowed speed is so painfull.

c: I got nothing there.

d: Actually been brought up before, several times.. you can setup an event to run external sfv checker. (Don't bother commenting about 'I want it to re-queue if it failed' crap. You wont die having to redownload a file again manual later.)

a: I know that, but in some FTP you may be allowed 2 or more threads simultaniously. In those FTPs I want to use those multiple threads simultaniously. I as a user should have the option to set the no. of threads per FTP site in the way I want.

b: A speed slider controller makes life hell lot easier. See FlashGet's speed side controller as an example ( w*w.amazesoft.com)

c: ...

d: Even bigstar says it is on to-do list. People who like it use it, others don't .

Originally posted by DayCuts
Hmm, u mean other than the 'statistics' tab in the site manager? if so please explain how your suggestion would be different than the tracking feature already in place.


I mean a real-time bar-graph m8 that conviniently shows your upload/download bandwidth utilisation only for FlashFXP, nothing remotely related to Statistics tab. Look what is a real-time graph for the entire internet connection here w*w.dumeter.com. But DU Meter shows bandwidth utilisation for all applications taken together ( say FlashFXP + FlashGet + Opera + IE +...) . I want a real-time graph for FlashFXP only inside FlashFXP , perhaps over the queue window . I hope now I sound clear :) ?

[MxxCon]

Originally posted by Partha
d: Even bigstar says it is on to-do list. People who like it use it, others don't .even tho he said it's on todo list, you can still use basic event-triggers in flashfxp to launch your own sfv checker.
I mean a real-time bar-graph m8 that conviniently shows your upload/download bandwidth utilisation only for FlashFXP, nothing remotely related to Statistics tab. Look what is a real-time graph for the entire internet connection here w*w.dumeter.com. But DU Meter shows bandwidth utilisation for all applications taken together ( say FlashFXP + FlashGet + Opera + IE +...) . I want a real-time graph for FlashFXP only inside FlashFXP , perhaps over the queue window . I hope now I sound clear :) ? you can use something like netlimiter
http://www.netlimiter.com/screenshots/125/scrshot002.png (http://www.netlimiter.com/)

[Partha]

Originally posted by MxxCon
even tho he said it's on todo list, you can still use basic event-triggers in flashfxp to launch your own sfv checker.
you can use something like netlimiter
http://www.netlimiter.com/screenshots/125/scrshot002.png (http://www.netlimiter.com/)

I know that I can use the trigger thing to launch a SFV checker, but I prefer FlashFXP to do very simple .sfv/.md5 check such as automatically check a downloaded file for me by scanning for a .sfv/.md5 file within the downloaded folder and report back the result in the status window while the next file in the queue is downloading. For more complex things, I can trigger launch other .SFV/.MD5 checkers or I can always run FlashSFV or hKSFV manually :).

Instead of NetLimiter I prefer NetPeeker myself (w*w.net-peeker.com). But the reason why I request a real-time graph for FlashFXP only inside FlashFXP is because I want to view in real tme the performance of FlashFXP only and I want the FlashFXP infos to be shown by FlashFXP only ,just like FlashGet which has it's own real time bandwidth utilisation meter .

[MxxCon]

Originally posted by Partha
Instead of NetLimiter I prefer NetPeeker myself (w*w.net-peeker.com). But the reason why I request a real-time graph for FlashFXP only inside FlashFXP is because I want to view in real tme the performance of FlashFXP only and I want the FlashFXP infos to be shown by FlashFXP only ,just like FlashGet which has it's own real time bandwidth utilisation meter . so why would you prefer to use software that can NOT do what you want instead of the one that can?:confused:

[Partha]

Originally posted by MxxCon
so why would you prefer to use software that can NOT do what you want instead of the one that can?:confused:

Hmmm nice question man . But in this regard of me requesting a real time Bandwidth meter inbuilt in FlashFXP, I believe FlashFXP should reveal more secrets about herself rather then taking the help of some other 3rd party application. Honestly, to see what I want to know about FlashFXP , I couldn't afford to pay for a 3rd party shareware such as NetPeeker or NetLimiter. If it is something I want to know about FlashFXP, I want to look only at FlashFXP , and not at another application which will take lots of desktop space :) . Bottom line is why should I pay for a different shareware that would take a huge amount of desktop space and show only a little info about other software ?

[thop]

I'd like to speak against an included sfv checker! I can already smell the bloat :(