Which is the best download manager???

I need a good download manager and i think that this is the best place to ask my question... Let me hear your opinions...

 

For me its Orbit Downloader. Its free, fast, and it can get media from webpages.

 

I like Free Download Manager, though I do not use it anymore, it has many features and settings for almost everything.

 

Don't use any. Tried several of these 500%+ things, just makes me laugh.

Gerard

 

You may be right about that gerardwil but, personally, i don't use a download manager just to increase my downloading speed but in order to manage better my downloads. Resume downloads is an extremely useful feature!

 

In doze Orbit.

 

Hello.

I used these utilities back in the 'days of dial-up'. Now I use just Opera's built-in feature or my torrent client (BitComet) for the task. So I voted 'other'.

Cheers.

 

I understand what you are saying. For me it is very rare to have broken downloads. Also I want all my downloads in the same folder before doing anything with them. But that's a personal taste.

Gerard

 

Same here.

 

DM is not just to increase speed, which it does, but definitelly not 500%.
I used it, when I had only 1 Mbit, to resume, download GB files and so on.

I expected, that IE7 in Vista can download 2-4 GB file, but obviously, it can not.
Otherwise I download only via IE, but if I need something special, I use FDM for sure.

 

Orbit Downloader

 

wget. Stable, very lightweight, can resume downloads, and it just works.

Cheers,

Alphalutra1

 

If you use Firefox, downthemall is a nice extension. No need for external manager.

 

FDM used to be my favorite till Orbit with its P2P technology came out, way faster, uses full of my allocated bandwidth.

 

Α question for the fdm users... Is any of you downloading lots of stuff ( i am not talking about illegal stuff ) with rapidshare premium account?? I tried it but most of the times it stopped downloading after a while telling me that the server cannot guarantee its resuming capabilities and other things like this... I don't know what to do...

 

I used to use GetRight in the days of dial-up, but since broadband arrived, never bothered since.

 

Me too...

 

im a free download manager before but now switch to orbit downloader i dont like the video download feature of fdm.

 

Why do folks need a download manager? I've been downloading for 10 years by following the download instructions and saving the setup .exe to "My Downloads", then click run. Do these programs have other features?

 

WGET here too, with a twist, though.
WinWGET with it's GUI (makes it a little more user friendly).

If you're on dialup and/or have shaky connections, ability to resume is priceless.
Recently DL'd 200 Mb file, (dialup) took 12 hours! Had to "resume" multiple times.
Very frustrating to spend half a day to DL 99% of a file and the connection is interrupted. Have to start all over again.

 

In addition to what Bob D mentioned. Some download manager let you download files using multiple connections or mirrors, which *may* make downloads go faster.

 

ok hi all i used IDM and flashget have a problem with both and i hope someone can tell me what settings to get rid or help me.when the download is done and i click on it to open it up it keeps saying the archive is either damage or unknown format.now if i exit both of them and just down load normaly just useing winrar the software works download is good...can some one help with settings.
thank you..

 

Once you get broadband you'll never go back. Downloads are in seconds to maybe a few minutes.

 

Hi, folks: IMO, there is no such thing as the best d/l manager. As long as it can (1) resume connection after interruption (2) provide multiple connection, therefore increasing d/l speed. Then it is a good d/l manager. I am using Internet download Manager, it serves my purposes, therefore I think it is my choice, but does not mean it is the best one.

 

When I was on dialup I had Get Right download manager I had segmented downloads enabled, I NEVER enperenced a faster download because of it. The Idea sounds great but it just doesn't happen in real life.