Download managers

MIkkyo · Post by **MIkkyo** » March 20th, 2007, 16:13

I'm in the middle of

and the bloody thing has stopped at 1.4gb out of 3. what ever gb. I've not used a down load manager in ages as I usually just torrent now, but this is a direct link thingy (cheers for that by the way berk) Anyone know of any good D/L managers I can use that can recover incase of a disconnection? Cheers in advance. I kinda remember Mozilla doing one but I can't find it.

Fear · Post by **Fear** » March 20th, 2007, 16:20

For an FTP download have a gander at FileZilla.

It's free. Open source. And damn good.

MIkkyo · Post by **MIkkyo** » March 20th, 2007, 16:22

That the one, cheers mate

Post by **FatherJack** » March 20th, 2007, 16:23

I use GetRight, which is free unless you want advanced features (like saving a load of passwords). Used it for years, and actually genuinely worth paying for.

The browser thing in it is great for mirroring websites.

MIkkyo · Post by **MIkkyo** » March 20th, 2007, 16:34

FatherJack wrote:I use GetRight, which is free unless you want advanced features (like saving a load of passwords). Used it for years, and actually genuinely worth paying for.

The browser thing in it is great for mirroring websites.

Never heard of this one before, its bloody easy to use, cheers for that.

spoodie · Post by **spoodie** » March 20th, 2007, 17:13

I've used Getright on and off since I was first online, it's 10 years old!

It will capture downloads from your browser using it's own plugin but I prefer FlashGot.

Post by **Grimmie** » March 20th, 2007, 17:19

<a href="http://www.downthemall.net/">Downthemall</a>.. Best. Plugin.. Evar.
Also scoops embedded files and images from webpages with a single click.

Post by **Joose** » March 20th, 2007, 18:54

Grimmie wrote:<a href="http://www.downthemall.net/">Downthemall</a>.. Best. Plugin.. Evar.
Also scoops embedded files and images from webpages with a single click.

^this. I use it (i think prompted by grimmie) and luff it hard. In the arse. Twice.

cheeseandham · Post by **cheeseandham** » April 9th, 2007, 15:16

Stumbled across this and remembered this thread...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison ... d_managers

Post by **deject** » April 9th, 2007, 15:47

I don't use download managers/accelerators mostly because a lot of download sites prohibit them and won't let you download from the if you try to use one. The only use I'd ever get out of them is resuming downloads, but I almost never need to do that these days.

cheeseandham · Post by **cheeseandham** » April 9th, 2007, 16:06

on the whole I agree with you deject. However I do find use for them from time to time, more often than not in instances where there are multiple mirrors of the same file, but all of them have shitty download speed for whatever reason.
Something like GetRight enables me to download from all of them at the same time and therefore get a decent speed.

Post by **Joose** » April 9th, 2007, 16:08

deject wrote:I don't use download managers/accelerators mostly because a lot of download sites prohibit them and won't let you download from the if you try to use one. The only use I'd ever get out of them is resuming downloads, but I almost never need to do that these days.

Thats why I like DownThemAll. It ties itself in to FF nicely, so when you click a link to download you get the normal download/open with choices, with an additional "down them all" button. So if whatever you are downloading from thows a fit, you can just as easily download without it.

As for actual use of them, I only occasionally use it for its restarting download ability (which is handy for when you want to play something online, but you are in the middle of downloading something hueg). What I mainly use it for is when the only sites I can find what I want on are only giving me 50kb/s or similar speeds. Then it kicks ass, you just have to keep upping the connections untill it maxes out.

spoodie · Post by **spoodie** » April 9th, 2007, 16:37

cheeseandham wrote:on the whole I agree with you deject. However I do find use for them from time to time, more often than not in instances where there are multiple mirrors of the same file, but all of them have shitty download speed for whatever reason.
Something like GetRight enables me to download from all of them at the same time and therefore get a decent speed.

Same for me, mostly for the file mirror handling ability, otherwise I'd just use Download Them All. Which can't do this, can it?

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » April 9th, 2007, 16:41

spoodie wrote:Same for me, mostly for the file mirror handling ability, otherwise I'd just use Download Them All. Which can't do this, can it?

Nope.

I use both.

DTA for stuff like dreamhost based sites as they're generally a bit slow on single connections.

I keep getright about for stuff like bf2 mods where you need 10 seperate servers to get over 50kb/s

Post by **TezzRexx** » April 9th, 2007, 21:39

I'm another DTA whore but, I think i'm gonna install GetRight.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » April 9th, 2007, 21:40

with getright i suggest *NOT* letting it install the browser hooks, it can be iffy.

spoodie · Post by **spoodie** » April 9th, 2007, 22:04

Dr. kitteny berk wrote:with getright i suggest *NOT* letting it install the browser hooks, it can be iffy.

That hard

As far as the included ones are concerned, but the FlashGot addon works quite well. It does all sorts of stuff but I just use it for GetRight integration.

Post by **TezzRexx** » April 9th, 2007, 22:20

Dr. kitteny berk wrote:with getright i suggest *NOT* letting it install the browser hooks, it can be iffy.