FTP Bandwidth Throttle for Downloads

Demonstrates the Chilkat FTP2 download bandwidth throttling property : BandwidthThrottleDown.

Download Chilkat FTP2 ActiveX

LOCAL loFtp
LOCAL lnSuccess
LOCAL lcLocalFilename
LOCAL lcRemoteFilename

loFtp = CreateObject('Chilkat.Ftp2')

*  Any string unlocks the component for the 1st 30-days.
lnSuccess = loFtp.UnlockComponent("Anything for 30-day trial")
IF (lnSuccess <> 1) THEN
    =MESSAGEBOX(loFtp.LastErrorText)
    QUIT
ENDIF

loFtp.Hostname = "www.example-code.com"
loFtp.Username = "****"
loFtp.Password = "****"

*  To use FTP bandwidth throttling, set the BandwidthThrottleDown
*  property to a maximum desired bytes/second:
*  This example limits the download to 50K per second.
loFtp.BandwidthThrottleDown = 50000

*  The default data transfer mode is "Active" as opposed to "Passive".

*  Connect and login to the FTP server.
lnSuccess = loFtp.Connect()
IF (lnSuccess <> 1) THEN
    =MESSAGEBOX(loFtp.LastErrorText)
    QUIT
ENDIF

*  Change to the remote directory where the file is located.
*  This step is only necessary if the file is not in the root directory
*  for the FTP account.
lnSuccess = loFtp.ChangeRemoteDir("junk")
IF (lnSuccess <> 1) THEN
    =MESSAGEBOX(loFtp.LastErrorText)
    QUIT
ENDIF

*  Download a file.

lcLocalFilename = "hamlet.xml"

lcRemoteFilename = "hamlet.xml"

lnSuccess = loFtp.GetFile(lcRemoteFilename,lcLocalFilename)
IF (lnSuccess <> 1) THEN
    =MESSAGEBOX(loFtp.LastErrorText)
    QUIT
ENDIF

loFtp.Disconnect()

=MESSAGEBOX("File Downloaded!")