<p>You probably want Aspera Connect, not the client, which you should be able to <a href="http://downloads.asperasoft.com/en/downloads/8?list" rel="nofollow noreferrer">download</a> without a password. Additionally, your customer should be able to supply you with the Connect installer that matches their server.</p>

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2017-09-07T00:04:02.733Z
2017-09-07T00:04:02.733Z
Michael Liebman
<p>In fact the IBM Aspera Desktop Client, a transfer client similar to "filezilla" for FTP, used to be licensed, and is now free of charge, the password protection has been removed.</p>

<p>The IBM Aspera Connect client is also free but requires to use a web interface first on server side.</p>

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2019-11-07T21:23:19.767Z
2019-11-07T21:23:19.767Z
laurent
<p>A customer asked me if it was possible to use Aspera FTP instead normal FTP protocol to upload files to their machines.</p>

<p>Obviously I got their address, credentials and so on. The fun part started when I tried to download the Aspera client in order to upload the files to their servers.</p>

<p>It seems that the clients are on the aspera website, but if you want to download the file you have to provide the username and password.</p>

<p>Is this a misconfigured HTTP server or you have to pay even for the client in some ways? Tome sound weird because normally you pay if you want to implement the infrastructure not if you just want to connect to the remote server but who knows..</p>

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user3450548
# Aspera Client availability for download

(Asked by: username_0 on 2017-09-06)

A customer asked me if it was possible to use Aspera FTP instead normal FTP protocol to upload files to their machines.

Obviously I got their address, credentials and so on. The fun part started when I tried to download the Aspera client in order to upload the files to their servers.

It seems that the clients are on the aspera website, but if you want to download the file you have to provide the username and password.

Is this a misconfigured HTTP server or you have to pay even for the client in some ways? Tome sound weird because normally you pay if you want to implement the infrastructure not if you just want to connect to the remote server but who knows..

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## 2 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2017-09-07. Score: 1

You probably want Aspera Connect, not the client, which you should be able to [download](http://downloads.asperasoft.com/en/downloads/8?list) without a password. Additionally, your customer should be able to supply you with the Connect installer that matches their server.


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### Answer by username_2 on 2019-11-07. Score: 0

In fact the IBM Aspera Desktop Client, a transfer client similar to "filezilla" for FTP, used to be licensed, and is now free of charge, the password protection has been removed.

The IBM Aspera Connect client is also free but requires to use a web interface first on server side.


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