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    Question Should I use a download manager?

    I was wondering if I should look to use a download manager to speed up and allow resuming of downloads? I had a brief look on google but I couldn't find anything that looked the part!

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    Re: Should I use a download manager?

    what's to manage? wget -c someurl

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    Re: Should I use a download manager?

    I've used FreeDownloadManager in the past and that always seemed to work well.

    However, if you have firefox I'd recommend using DownThemAll which is a download manager that sits inside Firefox.

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    Re: Should I use a download manager?

    I paid for Internet Download Manager - which I really like. But it's personal preference - there's lots of good free ones too.
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    Re: Should I use a download manager?

    Cheers, I'll have a look at the two recommended!

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    Re: Should I use a download manager?

    I use FreeDownloadManager in Vista and Speed Download Manager 5 in OS X

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    Re: Should I use a download manager?

    flashget? i use that sometimes.

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    Re: Should I use a download manager?

    I use FreeDownloadManager combined with Firefox's FlashGot plugin, excellent stuff. WHat I like about FDM is that you can specify the memory cache size to use so there's much less disk activity making everything a whole lot faster. Other clients either use a small amount or none at all.

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    Re: Should I use a download manager?

    I've got DownThemAll installed in my firefox, must say i dont use it much though.. Good for large files etc..

    Also i use Orbit download manager for pulling things off rapidshare and sites that require authorization =]

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    Re: Should I use a download manager?

    I use orbit downloader to, it has the ++Grabber tool built in which allows you to get the source files of streaming media. Quite handy if you'd rather download something and watch it on a player rather than through your browser.

    Integrates nicely with firefox to.

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    Re: Should I use a download manager?

    Yeah I use Orbit too, its very nice.
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    Re: Should I use a download manager?

    Quote Originally Posted by Stevo3000 View Post
    I was wondering if I should look to use a download manager to speed up and allow resuming of downloads? I had a brief look on google but I couldn't find anything that looked the part!
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    Re: Should I use a download manager?

    Freedowloadmanager here too. Does the job
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    Re: Should I use a download manager?

    The main advantage is that it can resume after an interruption

    I use Opera and it can download OK, but for big jobs (100MB or so) I use Star Downloader - simple and, IIRC, no real installation. Good for Linux distros :-)
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    Re: Should I use a download manager?

    I find XP seems to resume ok most times on it's own!

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    Re: Should I use a download manager?

    I only use one when downloading a large file - say 200mb or more. Or from a known slow server. I see no point otherwise. Freedownloadmanager with the FlashGet Firefox plugin here too.

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