![]() I haven't done any formal timedĬomparisons with other FTP applications, but my gut tells me that ![]() Interarchy 10 is the newest version of Nolobe’s flagship, industry-strength FTP client.You're looking for speed in an FTP client, Interarchy is it itĬlaims 30 MB per second. ![]() New is the iFTP transfer protocol, cloud capabilities and plug-in support. Improved are performance, net disks, Leopard support (Quick Look and Cover Flow), and support for most if not all network protocols. Nolobe, Interarchy’s Australian developer, has been developing Interarchy for ages, and personally I know it from the pre Mac OS X days - that’s prehistorical times, really. Even back then, Interarchy (or Anarchy as it was known then) was considered to be the fastest FTP client out there. In Mac OS X times, we have only two real mainstream contenders left with in this market space: Interarchy and Transmit by Panic Software. Earlier this year Transmit got its upgrade to version 4 and received a speed boost in the process, so I thought it would be nice to compare the two on the performance front. Was I in for a surprise! But let’s first go over Interarchy’s new features. To its developer that is a very important thing. To use mortals who understand FTP to be a network protocol without further exact technical knowledge, plug-ins will be great if others are jumping in and creating nice ones for us to download or buy. Nolobe has made sure, however, to include a good number of those plug-ins with Interarchy 10. Plug-ins don’t change the way Interarchy works, or its looks. They are meant to directly interfere with your server. For example, one of the included plug-ins enables you to start and stop the Apache web server and to view its configuration. That’s great if you are a webmaster but it also makes it painfully clear that writing your own plug-ins can be dangerous stuff if you don’t know exactly what you are doing. Nevertheless, plug-ins are unique to Interarchy 10 and do potentially dramatically extend the software’s functionality.Ī second highlight for version 10 is iFTP. iFTP is another exclusive to Interarchy 10. It is built on top of FTP and SSH, and Nolobe claims it is secure and fast. iFTP enables you to ditch FTP, SFTP and WebDAV, according to the documentation. I tried replacing FTP with iFTP and was in for a big surprise. I can’t really tell whether iFTP is secure - if it’s built on top of SSH, I am sure it will be. What I can tell with certainty is that it is unbelievably fast, and I’m not exaggerating. This is one test where I compared Transmit with Interarchy and because I couldn’t believe my test results at first, I went over them again, and then again. Here’s a table with the fastest results of both Interarchy and Transmit: Test/App The conclusion was identical in all three test runs: Interarchy blows Transmit out of the water. Here’s a screencast of the speed comparison. It takes a good 7 minutes to view the boring progress bar of Interarchy and Transmit move along, but I started with the fastest of the two. Other improvements you’ll see in Interarchy 10 are support for Leopard’s Quick Look and Cover Flow, improvements to Net Disks that makes them work much the same way as Transmit’s MacFuse based system. Net Disks are about the same speed as Panic Software’s counterparts. Interarchy 10 further supports the cloud with the addition of Google Storage and Rackspace Cloud Files to the already supported Amazon S3 service.Īnd Interarchy has support for almost every protocol in the book, including SCP, FTP, FTP/SSL-TLS, sFTP, SSH, WebDAV, WebDAVS, iDisk, Amazon S3, Google Storage, RackSpace Cloud Files, HTTP, HTTPS, and the new iFTP.ĭue to its speed, working with Interarchy 10 is a nice experience you tend to be so baffled by the performance you have little attention for anything else. However, even the first update after initial release has a couple of minor quirks.
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