twirp

'alo!
If I mount an FTP connection as a network drive or whatever it's called, will it eat up bandwidth? Or will it only start taking bandwidth when I start downloading folder lists and the item itself? And, what uses less bandwidth if I do mount something, sftp or ftp?
Thanks

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Daniel

Hai,

Mounting FTP as a network drive really shouldn't affect your bandwidth usage at all while sitting idle. Although I am not positive on the inner workings of how Windows accomplishes this, it'd be silly if it attempted to keep some sort of an active state connectivity with the FTP server while it's not in use.

As to what would use more bandwidth - it'd be sftp (encapsulation, encryption vs all plain text), but again, the difference is so minimal that you would barely notice any difference. Instead of looking at it, as to what uses less bandwidth in this scenario, it should be looked at from the 'what is more secure' perspective.

Choose sftp if you can, but I think for Windows, you'd need to buy some sort of additional software to get this accomplished as there's no native 'ssh' capabilities in Windows.

Mark

Bandwidth usage would be negligible either way to keep a connection alive. As to which uses more, I don't really know to be honest because it would all depend on where the encryption/decryption takes place in regards to the bandwidth count, but I can't imagine it would use an amount to where you would notice

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