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HowtoconnecttoyourPQubeviaFTP

1. GettingthePQubeIPaddress/hostnameThe first step to connect to your PQube is to get its IP Address (e.g. 192.168.1.121) or its hostname (pqube.psl.com). There are two scenarios: (a) You access the PQube from your local network. In this case, the IP address (or hostname) that you will be connecting to is the IP address of the PQube itself. You can get this address in one of the following ways:

Configuration screen on the PQube OLED display (Configuration->Network) – only for firmware version 1.4 and later.

From the setup.ini file [Network_Setup] section, only if IP_Address_Method is set to Use_Fixed_IP, then you will find the IP address in the [Fixed_IP] section of the setup.ini

From the emails that your receive from your PQube- only if you have set Publish_IP_Address set to ON.

(b) You access the PQube from the Internet. In this case your system administrator should have properly set up a port forward from the external public_IP:port to the internal PQube_IP:port (e.g. 122.121.22.1:21 -> 192.168.1.121:21). In this scenario, you will connect to public_IP:port (122.121.22.1:21) from the internet.

2. SettingupthePQube'sFTPserverIn the [FTP_Settings] section of the PQube’s Setup.ini file:

change the FTP_Server setting to ON

Personalize the default values for FTP_User_Name and FTP_Password.

3. ChoosinganFTPclient–FilezillaorCoreFTPThe PQube's FTP Server is designed to respond to only 1 incoming connection at one time. FTP Clients such as all of Microsoft's FTP clients (Internet Explorer, Windows Explorer, and the command line FTP) always attempt multiple connections at once and are therefore not compatible. More advanced FTP clients have an option to force one single connection. We recommend the use of FileZilla (http://filezilla-project.org/) or CoreFTP (http://www.coreftp.com/) . Connection using Filezilla is described in Section 4 and connection using CoreFTP is described in Section 5. Other clients work as well, as long as they allow setting the maximum number of connection to 1.