Existing users, 
Transmit
FTP / SFTP / WebDAV client with many advanced features.
Version: 3.7
Quality is declining...
Feedback Type: Review
Contributed by: mourogers Friday, November 30 2007 @ 09:32 AM PST
Product Platform: MacOSX
Used Product For: Over One Year
Recommend Product: NO
We've used Transmit at our graphic design studio for a couple of years, primarily for FTPing print files to our service bureau. Best interface out there, but we're getting more and more failed transfers. It's to the point that we've switched to a freeware client. I hope Panic gets the bugs ironed out for the next release, as we would prefer using Transmit, and would like to go back.
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Quality is declining... - Dez
I think the comments above were the result of the user's lack of understanding of the FTP protocol. ALL FTP clients use multiple ports - that's how FTP works. If you want to use only one known port, you must use SFTP [aka SSH].The above user submitted their own review, making the same comments, but later left a comment on that review confirming what I have said here.
Thursday, January 10 2008 @ 01:24 AM PST
Quality is declining... - julianps_dotmac
mourogers, are you using FTP, or SFTP?If you are connecting via FTP then Transmit uses between 3-5 different ports per ftp event (upload, download, permission change, etc). In a decent-length session this is a lot of ports and if you have any of those blocked by your firewall you'll get "Connection cannot be established" errors.
Assuming your firewall exists for a reason and your service does not support port22 connections you'll need a try a new FTP client.
I guess Transmit is using these "random" port assignments to validate (and consequently secure) non-SFPT traffic which is all very worthy. My beef is that in order to reduce the total traffic and hence the total number of ports used per session Transmit includes an improperly implemented local caching regime which has "broken" the whole application and is reason enough to look for something better.
Sad to say, but this dog might just have had his day.
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Friday, December 07 2007 @ 12:34 AM PST