Daf, Last July I purchased the upgrade to 7.0 with the expectation of even better performance from WS_FTP. Instead, I experienced the same horrible degradation you report below. I called the Ipswitch staff but they feigned total surprise and lack of concern when I related my experience. I reinstalled the older version.
Will continue monitoring this forum in the hopes of seeing a future announcement that shows how the new 7.xx version is faster on all fronts than the 6.5 or 6.7 versions. Disappointed that Ipswitch would allow this to happen without taking steps to correct it. Herman Daf wrote: > > Hi all, > I'm new to the forum but have been using WS_FTP for years, its simply the > best ftp client out there. > I've been using 6.7 pro for some time now but recently upgraded to 7.04. > I'm using WS_FTP 6.7 on one machine and 7.04 on another. > After upgrading to 7.04 my sessions have become VERY slow. It takes 30 secs > to connect and about the same amount of time to change directories or > complete a transfer. Where as on 6.7 and all the previous versions, it took > about 5 to 10 secs. > After connecting I see a message in the status bar that says "waiting on > server response"- this message will sit there for some time before the > remote directory will finally pop in. > All the settings seems to be identical- as the upgrade has left them in > place. > Like I say I still have 6.7 on the other machine and go over to it and make > the same transfer in a third of the time. > Any ideas why this is? > > Also- in 6.7- as I waited on the connection, my local directory was sitting > there ready and I could begin queuing up my files--- in 7.04 I'm staring at > the Ipswitch directory until the actual connection has been made. This is > minor, I know, but why was that changed? > > Also- the extensions I've set, as far as what I want transferred as binary > or ASCII, are not being transferred as I have set them. If I send a .cgi > script over, and I have .cgi set as being ASCII, the script won't work. I > assume because it's actually being sent as a binary file. > I have all accounts set to auto- detect. > The only way I could fix this was to reinstall 6.7- then it worked > perfectly. > > Thanks for any help with these problems. I would love to use 7.04 but it > looks like I'll have to stick with 6.7 if I can't get these things cleared > up. > Thanks > Daf > > Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from >this list. Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list.
