I am a web site administrator, maintaining and updating the contents of web site are my daily work. Uploading renewed contents to web site is a trying and endless work for me. I usually make mistakes and the slow upload speed almost make me crazy. It is time to look for a quick and powerful FTP client. But which I should select among the lots of products on the market? Thank for SiteDesigner Technologies Inc, the publisher of 3D-FTP, the powerful and easy to use multithreading FTP client. Did you hear about it? It is an ideal solution for network administrators and web sites engineers. Do you have the same troubles as me. 3D-FTP is the best choice for you.

3D-FTP uses MultiWire multi-threaded transfer engine, that increases download speeds up to 20x. Update our web site or download huge log files in a fraction of time normally taken with the other FTP Clients.

The key functions and features of 3D-FTP include: MultiWire Multi-threaded Transfer Engine: Up to the 20x faster transfer speed. Utilize our bandwidth to the max by transferring multiple files simultaneously. Browse and change directories while transferring files in the background. Add new files to the queue and connect to other sites while transferring. Thread panel and window display status of each thread. Full support for the single-threaded mode for sites allowing only one connection at a time. 6x faster than competing products.

Fully Customizable Look and Feel: Modern Windows look-and-feel with complete set of features efficiently available. Customize dialog boxes with WinXP, Silver and Blue color themes. Customize standard toolbar. Visual bar displays for current, average, minimum and maximum speeds and a special transfer speed histogram. Optional skin support provides total control over the look and feel. Five skins (with transparency effects) included in the download package, download more from Skin Gallery.

Create our own ultimate skin by using over 100 ready-to-use building blocks and visual Skin Editor. SiteManager, Sharing Sites over Network and Import: Save and organize our sites efficiently with folders and subfolders. Arrange sites with drag&drop. Direct access to bookmarks under each site. Direct access to the most recently used folders. Quickly access the Most Recently Visited sites in Site-menu. Favorite Directories drop down menu. Shared SiteManager allows all users in the network share to utilize same site information. Optionally lock SiteManager info in the shared network environment (set it as read-only). Import sites from CuteFTP. Import sites from WS_FTP. Import sites from FTPVoyager, Bulletproof FTP, etc.

Synchronize Directories: Update the web site content or make a backup of web server directory tree by synchronizing local and remote directories. This makes directories identical by automatically transferring only new and modified files. No need to know or remember what files were modified and need to be transferred. Include/Exclude filtering in Sync.

Drag&Drop User Interface: Transfer files and directories by dragging them with mouse. Drag files from remote and local file lists to transfer queue. Drag download links from web browser to queue. Access file and directory actions via right-click menus. Access queue actions via right-click menus. Rearrange queue items with drag&drop. Full mouse wheel support in file lists, the queue and log windows.

Recurring Scheduling: Schedule file transfers for later time/date. Recurring scheduling for daily, weekly or monthly schedules. Repeat schedule at a certain time of day or repeat it every Nth sec/min/hour during the day. We can also set start and end times/dates for schedules. Each queue item can have its own schedule. Files from multiple servers can be scheduled for transfer simultaneously. Continue using program normally while scheduled transfers take place in the background.

Antivirus Scanning: 3D-FTP automatically invokes our virus scanner to check all downloaded files against viruses. This feature requires separate antivirus software like Norton Antivirus or

McAfee VirusScan. Bookmarks: Save most used sites and directories as bookmarks and access them with single mouse click. Give bookmarks descriptive names, like "Web Server Log Files", "Web HTML Pics" etc. to make these bookmarks easy to use and remember. Access bookmarks via Bookmarks-menu, from Site Manager or from Favorite Directories drop down menu.

Show Total Directory Size: Need to know how much space our files take up in our web server? This new feature calculates the total size for all files in the selected directory including all files in the subdirectories. The result is shown in the tree view with two largest directories highlighted.

Remote Editor: Edit files directly on the remote server using internal text editor. Set up multiple user definable external editors for different filename extension. Automatic upload after saving the file in external editor (no need to exit editor for uploads).

Print Directories: Print full or partial file listings. Customize columns included, set sort order and filter files included/excluded in the printout.

Transfer Queue: Add files and directories with full recursive sub directory support. Multiple site support (one queue can hold files for any number of sites and program will handle connects to different sites automatically). Rearrange the queue items with drag&drop, select and drag multiple items at once. Each item displays estimated transfer time and progress bar + text. Save and load queue to the disk for later use. Sticky queue, optionally saves the queue on exit, restores it on startup. Schedule queue transfer for later time. Automatic reconnect and download resume in case of errors (transfers WILL succeed). Clipboard monitoring + AutoStart transfer when download item is copied to clipboard. Support for Ratio sites. Automatically rearrange the queue for ratio download with optimum order = minimum uploads to get files we want to download. Full queue handling via API.

Non-stop File Transfers: Automatically resume the interrupted file transfers. Resume options include automatic mode, overwrite and prompt user (with timed autoclose)-options. Full support for both FTP and HTTP file transfer resume.

Session and Transfer Logging: Store the log window content (=Session Logging) or list of all files transferred (=Transfer Logging) grouped by site. We can also specify how often new log file is created, options are daily, weekly, or monthly. Log files can include the time/date stamps for each entry.

Net Speed Tester: We can test the network speed of a specific site before actually connecting to it. The 3D-FTP connect dialog includes VU-meter style Net Speed Meter, giving Rating of 0-100, estimating how file transfers will succeed. It also includes the graphical Ping time, Ping average and packet loss displays.

Firewall Support: Firewall support for over seven firewall types. Includes Socks V4 and V5 support. Optional local host name resolving. Separate proxy support for HTTP transfers.

Advanced Features: Set uploaded file date with MDTM command. Recursive Delete, deletes whole directory tree and files recursively. Custom commands with Macros. Windows Explorer Integration, drag&drop files from Explorer to the remote site. Drag files from the web browser to the queue for error free downloads. Select files with compare (e.g. select all local files that are newer on local than on remote). Select files with wildcards (e.g. select *.htm* files). Automatic ASCII vs. Binary transfer mode, user editable list of file extensions transferred in ASCII mode. Minimize program to system tray. Directory list caching speeds remote server browsing considerably. Access most recently used directories in each server from drop down list. URL Parsing and pasting. Copy and paste links from clipboard.

ChMod support by either visual (via check boxes) or by entering number codes. Smart Keep Alive-commands, user selectable list of commands that are randomly sent to server. Auto-reconnect for server disconnects. Separate Log Window (optional) shows details of server communication. We can show information about all or selected threads. Includes copy to clipboard and clear functions. Separate Thread Window (optional) shows exact details of thread activity. Separate Queue Window (optional) shows list of files in the queue. Support for VMS servers w/ multi-threading. Sounds on various events like connect, disconnect, transfer complete, transfer errors etc. Custom LIST -al type commands to display hidden files and resolve links on various servers.

Unlimited Site Licenses: Site licenses that allow us to install 3D-FTP on every PC on our corporation without a need to keep count on installations. Installation options for unattended installs. Include custom site list in SiteManager with unattended install.

Plugin and API architecture: 3D-FTP includes API (Application Program Interface) that can be used to fully programmatically control 3D-FTP. The API is based on COM standards and we can use our favorite programming language to command 3D-FTP, like Visual Basic, VC++, Delphi, VBScript, Excel, Word, etc. API allows us to create Plugin components. Free SDK available. Free sample Plugins available with source code.

3D-FTP Test Suite: Exhaustive test suite to ensure robust and bug free product. The test suite consist of transfer of over 10 million files. Test includes transfer of over 100GB data set in one session, including uploads, downloads, interruptions (=usage of resume) and recursive deletes. Transfer speed tests against other competitor products (still over 6x faster than others).

3D-FTP 7.0 is a FTP Software product from 3dftp.com, get 5 Stars SoftSea Rating, This multi-thread FTP client supports resume, keep-alive and auto-reconnect functions. It also allows you to synchronize directories, create bookmarks, send custom commands and print directories. You can manage your Web site with the remote editor, and the software supports scheduling, transfers, antivirus scanning and skins. SoftSea.com had fully tested, reviewed and uploaded the install files, 3D-FTP does not contain any adware or spyware, the latest version is 7.0, you can download this ftp software software (2.1 MB) from special server of SoftSea.com. The license of this networking software is Shareware, the price is $39.95, you can free download and get a free trial before you buy. If you want to get a full or nolimited version of 3D-FTP, you can buy this networking software.