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"Blake Young" <blakeyoung@mail.utexas.edu> wrote in message
news:42e58751$1@newsgroups.borland.com...

> I attempted to log into my Tripod account via the built-in WinXP
> command-line FTP program to see if uploading would work then.
> The result was that sometimes the upload would not even work at all
> (see below for description), and other times the speed was slow - and
> by "slow" I mean too slow to be of any use...

You've now tried at least 3 different FTP implementations and they all have
had problems with your Tripod account.  Since Tripod is the only common
factor here, I would guess that maybe Tripod is just messed up in general
and has nothing to do with the particular implementation you are using to
access it.

> ftp> put
> Local file winboxer.zip
> Remote file winboxer.zip
> 200 Port command succeeded.
> Could not open BINARY mode data connection.
> **** SECOND ATTEMPT WITH SAME CONNECTION***

Are you, by chance, behind a router or firewall?  Your machine is sending
the PORT command to the FTP server, which means that your machine is running
a separate server socket that the FTP server will connect to.  The fact that
the server is unable to reach that server socket sometimes suggest that
there is something on your machine or network that is blocking the inbound
connections.  Try doing the transfers in Passive mode instead.  That works
better through firewalls/routers, as long as the FTP server has extra ports
available for its own use.

> when it finally DID decide to upload, every once in a blue moon it
> would go at its normal fast speed but more often than not it would
> proceed at the unbearably slow (almost nonexistant) speed.

All the more reason to think that maybe there in something sitting on your
connection regulating the transfers behind your back.


Gambit