FTP Sites to Download Drivers Quicker

 The focus of this article is to provide information on
other ways of easily downloading software and driver packages. Many sites are ridden with information that isn't necessary. With this method, we will be look at ftp sites to obtain the same software and drivers at less hassle. For all examples, I will be using Google as my primary search engine to perform the example searches.

An example search for finding these types of sites would be:

ftp:dell drivers

(Note: no spaces between ftp:dell)
This yields results such as:

http://ftp.dell.com/Pages/

A fast and efficient way to snag computer hardware drivers.

You could try for software too as in:

ftp.(vendor/brand).com

An example search would be:

ftp.adobe.com

That would yield results like:

ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/

Lots of good Adobe software for the grabbing there. A lot of times even paid software can be found using these methods. That way if you happen to lose a CD you can easily find it, install it, put your product key in, and be good to go.

While these sites can be faster, looking through a long list can so things down, so make sure to ctrl+f and search directly on the
page for the computer model or software package you're looking for. 

Be sure to play around with the search terms. Another good one is:

(vendor/brand) index of/

An example search would be:

dell index of/

You might find some interesting/useful things following these methods.