Using a Web browser
Opening the ftp site using Chrome gives a result similar to belowWhen I try and open the ftp using Chrome I get:
Is this what you see?
When I click on Clicking on say average_rtt-100-by-node/ then results in Chrome I get:
Scroll down to some recent data, e.g. average_rtt-100-by-node-2014-09-10.txt.gz. Click on it and in Chrome The the file appears at the bottom left
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Drag this file to a more permanent place (e.g. your desktop). Then you have to unzip it. How you do that depends on your OS. I would do it in Unix. So I copy it to a Unix host and use gunzip. On windows I copy it to the desktop and the use WinRAR (you may need to download) to unzip and look at.
From a Unix command line
Use wget, e.g to download a file into the working directory:
$wget 'ftp://ftp.slac.stanford.edu/users/cottrell/average_rtt-100-by-node-2014-09-10.txt.gz'
You will probably want to write a script to get all the data.
Then use gunzip to unzip the data
Format of the file
There is a copy of the file here.
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