Re: What "secure" file transfer products do you use on Windows?

[Matthew Topper <topperm9 () GMAIL COM>]

I've used  WinSCP and FileZilla. Both are free. I find myself using
WinSCP a lot more, although that might just be because I'm used to it.

This article mentions a few others, but I've not tried them myself:
http://www.networkworld.com/columnists/2008/042208-dr-internet.html

-Matt

On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 12:48:55 +1300
Russell Fulton <r.fulton () AUCKLAND AC NZ> wrote:

> Hi Folk,
>
> So far as I can tell MS recommends webdav as a secure alternative to
> FTP for allowing access to files under windows.  We have found that
> MS's implementation of webdav does not perform well with large files
> across a wide area networks.  It opens lots of  tcp session that are
> so short that the window stuff never gets a chance to optimise
> resulting in very slow transfer rates.  We were transferring large
> MRI images ( multi GB) between our Medical School and US
> institutions. Interestingly we collect the MRI same images from
> hospitals around the world with a UNIX based server with out issues
> but when our users tried to use the webdav direct between two windows
> machines the transfers slowed to a trickle.  After hours of peering
> at wireshark traces  we decided that it was a TCP window problem
> cause my the MS server chopping the file in to tiny pieces and
> sending each over a different TCP session.
>
> I am looking for an SSH 2 based system (free preferred ;) or
> commercial) that we can recommend to any of our users who need to
> transfer files between windows systems.  I know several such systems
> exist and I'm hoping someone has already done the leg work of
> evaluating them... I'd be happy to have one free one and a
> commercial offering to recommend.
>
> Thanks, Russell