A Guide to FTP's

If you visit the Beastie Boys Message Board you will probably know that there is a FTP were you can download Audio and Video of the Beastie's. There is a HUGE, and I mean huge, thread dedicated to it (click here to view it). The problem is the reason it's so huge is because of the amount of people who make the same post about 50 times asking how to use the FTP or asking why it won't work for them. For everyone of these posts there is also an answer, but the answers seem to always go un read. Then there are all the seperate threads asking the same things, "why doesn't it work?" "how do i get on?" "what is the FTP?" "whats the info", these posts are more annoying because the inforamtion is all in the one original thread about a million times.

So anyway this article is designed so that after reading it there hopefully will no longer need to be any such threads, but if, after reading this, you still feel you don't know then have a look to see if the information is already on the Message Board because it's even worse when five people post the same thread and then wonder why they don't get an answer so they post it agian....etc.

So lets begin. First of all I should point out what a FTP is and what it isn't.

FTP Information

FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol.
Although it is on the internet it IS NOT a website, although some can be viewed through a browser, but this is not advised as you aren't able to resume download / uploads so you must start all over again (which sucks).

Step one - Downloading an FTP program

Step two - Installing SmartFTP

Step three - Opening SmartFTP

Step four - Learning about some of SmartFTP's features

Step five - Opening and useing an FTP

Step six - Downloading and Resuming Files

Misc FAQ - Here is some information on Frequently Asked Questions regarding the FTP

Author: Jim Gaunt (Jimmy JRG)