Windows 8 not compatible with FTP connections?

Ok I researched this for 2 days now and I am a freelancer. This is the only way I can make a living so I really need to fix this issue...
On my windows 7 desktop, I can connect with any FTP and be fine. It will connect successfully and never log me out until my session goes idle like usual.
However, on my Windows 8 laptop, I tried Filezilla, FireFTP, SmartFTP, Winscp, and even the Windows Explorer FTP access.. no matter what site I try to connect to via FTP (I tried around 5), it will not let me connect. This seems to be a Windows 8 issue.
So I tried to workaround it. I installed VirtualBox with Ubuntu 13.10 and it still won't connect. Maybe because my Windows 8 OS is running in the background, who knows.
How do I fix this? I only get the error : timed out.. or can't connect. Nothing informative. However, I connect to all 5 locations with my Windows 7 computer perfectly fine.
I need to get this to work on my laptop so I can freelance since I travel and do contract work.. this is super frustrating and I don't want to have to switch to a mac.

Do you have a third party firewall running? That could be doing the blocking.
If not, then just as a test, disable the Windows 8 firewall and try it, if it works then we have to figure out just what rule is blocking the connection.
I have no problem with FTP on Windows 8, I use it a lot, but most of the time I just use the built in command line FTP, though I have used Internet explorer some.
Which Windows 8 are we talking about here? (RT, Pro, ...)
Bob Comer - Microsoft MVP Virtual Machine

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