| Questions and answers about
sending large file |
| 1 What
is the benefits if I use eFileGo? |
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2 My computer is connected to internet via
router, can I use eFileGo? |
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3 Can I use eFileGo on a LAN? |
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4 What can I do if "effor when start
server engine" appear? |
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5 What can I do if my IP address change
constantly? |
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6 Why my friends can not visit the URL of my
computert? |
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7 What is the
definition of ports? |
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8 What is port
forwarding? |
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9 What is port forwarding? |
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10 What is the difference between port
forwarding and DMZ? |
11 Does eFileGo-sending large file
support resuming downloads?
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12 For Xp users what to do? |
13 How
to get ZoneAlarm to work with eFileGo?
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What is the benefits if I use eFileGo? |
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We design this tool for convenient file sending.
Many times we encounter the difficulty of send large file via
email. By eFileGo, the file in your computer can be downloaded
directly to your friend's computer. By email the file in
your computer must be sent 3 times untill it gets your friend's
computer: your computer to your email server, your email server
to your friend's email server, your friend's email server to
your friend's computer. Now you see, eFileGo is a "Green" tool
in the network society. |
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2 My computer is connected to internet
via router, can I use eFileGo? |
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Under such case, your friend can only visit the router's IP
directly. You must config the router to redirect outside
visit to your computer.
e.g. Your router address is 42.232.23.23, your computer
address is 192.168.1.5. You start a engine on 192.168.1.5:608.
Of course your friend can not visit your computer by
192.168.1.5:608 if he is not in the same LAN. He can visit
42.232.23.23:608 and the router can redirect his request to
192.168.1.5:608.
To redirect outside requests from port 608 of the router
to port 608 of your computer.
To learn how to config your router, D-Link user please refer to:
1)http://www.paqtool.com/product/efilego/images/file-sharing-configurtion.jpg
2)http://support.dlink.com/faq/view.asp?prod_id=1212&question=dmz+di%2D624
3)
http://support.dlink.com/faq/view.asp?prod_id=1067&question=DI-704%20/%20DI-704P%20/%20DI-707%20/%20DI-713%20/%20DI-713P
Linksys user please
forward the port number for efilego file share:
1)
How to forward port for linksys router (screenshot).
* Sometimes you need to disable DHCP (screenshot).
2)
http://www.linksys.com/support/support.asp?spid=92#adv
For more information, please
read the user manual of your router to learn how to config it.
You can also get help from the support service of your router.
In a words, If your url IP is 192.168.1.5, please config your router
to set this address as the DMZ or set a virtual server to port
608 (suppose that you set port 608 for eFileGo) at this address,
then people outside can access your files. But you can't tell
192.168.0.5 to your friends directly because it is a LAN IP
address. You should tell an internet IP address to your friends
so they can access your files on the internet. To find the
internet IP address, please visit:
http://www.whatismyip.com/
with your computer. Suppose that your local IP is 192.168.1.5
and the internet IP of your router is 22.2.23.2. Then the
URL of your computer will be: http://22.2.23.2:608, not
http//:192.168.1.5:608
*Note: Do not use http://192.168.1.5:608 - local IP
address can not work on the internet.
*Note: if you use port 80, then
http://22.2.23.2:80 and
http://22.2.23.2 is the same
since 80 is the internet www default port.
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3 Can I use eFileGo on a LAN? |
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Yes, when the LAN is not connected to internet. Your URL
can only be visited by the LAN computers. If the LAN is
connected to the internet, i.e. there is a gateway computer or
an proxy computer in the LAN, then it is the same case as the
router. Only if the gateway computer or proxy computer support
NAT or DMZ can your URL be visited by internet users. |
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4 What can I do if "effor when start
server engine" appear? |
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Click the start button again. |
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5 What can I do if my IP address change
constantly? |
Tell your friend the new IP address constantly or use
a domain name to instead of your IP address. There are some
software that can associate a domain name to your dynamic IP
address. e.g.http://dns2go.deerfield.com/
http://www.no-ip.com/ and
http://noeld.com/
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6 Why my friends can not visit the URL of my
computer? |
Generally it is because your friend's computer is not connected to
your computer (directly). Please check if there is any firewall
software on your computer. Outside requests may be blocked by
your firewall. If you find a firewall on your computer, please
config the firewall to open the port for eFileGo or allow
eFileGo to respond outside requests. Then please make sure that
other computers can access your computer directly.
Then please ask your friends to ping the IP address of your
computer. Please ask them to open a ms-dos command window.
Then type 'ping YourIP' and then press the 'enter' key. For
example,
If they can only see 'Request timed out', it means that they can
not access your computer directly at all. There could be a
firewall software on your computer, which blocks all outside
requests. Or your computer doesn't connect to the internet
directly.eFileGo is a simple software and you don't have to
config too much. Please make sure that your friends can access
your computer directly. You friend can also visit your URL by
proxy if they have.
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7 What is the
definition of ports? Applications running on TCP/IP open
connections to other computers using something called ports.
Ports allow multiple applications to reside on a single computer
- all talking TCP/IP. Ports are another set of numbers AFTER the
standard IP address. Applications often hide these port numbers
to reduce the complexity of TCP/IP. Example: web services (HTTP)
reside on port 80 by default. To reach this web site, you could
type http://www.paqtool.com:80 into your browser. The 80 is the
default port number for the HTTP protocol so typing it is not
necessary. There are 65535 available ports( 1 to 65535).
Here is
a list of some well known ports. |
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8 What is port
forwarding? |
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A broadband router or other NAT application (like ICS) creates a
firewall between your internal network and the internet. A
firewall keeps unwanted traffic from the internet away from your
LAN computers. A tunnel can be created through your firewall so
that the computers on the Internet can communicate to one of the
computers on your LAN on a single port. This is handy for
running web servers, game servers, ftp servers, or even video
conferencing. This is called port forwarding. One of your
computers could run a web server (port 80) while another
computer could run an FTP server (port 23) - both on the same IP
address. 
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9 What is DMZ? |
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DMZ is a feature that is included on some routers but is not in
Internet sharing software. A DMZ allows a single computer on
your LAN to expose ALL of its ports to the Internet. When doing
this, the exposed computer is no longer behind the firewall. |
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10 What is the difference between port forwarding
mapping) and DMZ? |
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A DMZ is far easier to set up than port
forwarding but exposes your entire computer to
the Internet. Sometimes TCP/IP applications
require very specialized IP configurations that
are difficult to set up or are not supported by
your router. In this case, placing your computer
in the DMZ is the only way to get the
application working. Placing a computer in the
DMZ should be considered temporary because your
firewall is no longer able to provide any
security to it.
Port forwarding can sometimes be difficult to
configure, but provides a relatively safe way of
running a server from behind a firewall. Since
only a single port (or small series of ports) is
exposed to the Internet, the computer is easier
to secure. Additionally, port forwarding allows
you to run multiple kinds of servers from
different computers on your lan.
Many broadband routers have special port
forwarding configuration screens for standard
applications (FTP, WWW, Mail, etc) and special
screens for custom applications.
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12 For Xp users, what to do?
There is an Internet connection firewall on the Windows XP system.
it is disabled by default if sp2 is not installed. But it
may be enabled so outside internet requests may be blocked
by the firewall. To config the Internet connection firewall
of Windows XP so that eFileGo-sending large file can
work properly , please follow these steps:
1) Open Network Connections (Click Start->Control Panel, and
then open Network Connections.)
2) Click the Dial-up-> LAN or High-Speed Internet
connection, and then, under Network Tasks, click Change
settings of this connection.
3) On the 'Advanced' tab, click the 'Settings...'
button.
4) Click the 'Add...' button to add a service for
eFileGo-sending large file.
5) Input the IP address and the port number
that eFilego uses, then click the 'OK' button to save
your settings. This will open the port for eFilego and allow
eFilego to respond outside requests.
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How to get ZoneAlarm to work with eFileGo? 1. Go to
the Program Control panel.
2. Go to the Programs tab in the Program Control
panel.
3. Click the Add button to browser and select "eFileGoSvr.exe".
4. Click the permission symbol you want to change, then
select Allow from the shortcut menu. Allow all for eFileGo.
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