Download manager

[Dr.G]

Hey,
Can anyone recommend a free download manager to me?
I recently got Neotel uncapped and i need a fast, reliable download manager . . I have tried FDM to no avail...
The neotel line drops from time to time so it makes me angry when i have to start the whole download again esp at the slow speeds of Neoconnect Lite . .btw these are http downlaods, not torrents. So is there anyway to download stuuf and be able to continue from where you left off if you get disconnected?
Many thanks

 

[The_Techie]

DownThemAll is a good add-on download manager for Firefox

 

[seymour7]

If I recall clearly, the server that you are downloading the files from needs to support resumable/pausable downloads - it doesn't have anything to do with the download manager. +1 for DownThemAll btw.

 

[killadoob]

Dude orbit for me is the best thing ever, it's free and the best you can get i think, you can also try flashget but i prefer orbit to be honest, also integrates with firefox flawlessly.

 

[Dr.G]

mmkay i will give orbit and downthemall a shot
thanks guys

 

[S1ght]

There's one called free download manager, works well and is free

 

[zakdoc89]

There's one called free download manager, works well and is free

check his first post

 

[Dr.G]

check his first post

lol, for me FDM doesnt even start downloading the file haha . . stays at 4b/s

 

[GeForce]

Try flashget with flashgot extension for firefox

 

[detritus]

lol, for me FDM doesnt even start downloading the file haha . . stays at 4b/s

Very odd, I've been using FDM for quite some time, in conjunction with the FlashGot Firefox extension.

 

[cryptic1]

Just buy IDM, it's the best download manager imho especially if you are using Rapidshare

BTW congrats on Neotel, I'm on iBurst and envy u Neotelers.

 

[S1ght]

check his first post

LOL, I missed that part All this studying is getting to me

 

[gregmcc]

There can be only one - FDM

If it doesn't start downloading then the problem is with you Been using it for years and never had any problems.

 

[Dr.G]

Just buy IDM, it's the best download manager imho especially if you are using Rapidshare

BTW congrats on Neotel, I'm on iBurst and envy u Neotelers.

HAHA thanks, but its not quite what i expected im lucky to get 15kb/s solid on a download

 

[LazyLion]

Registered Getright.

 

[The_Unbeliever]

Weird - I'm using FDM on a telskum line with great success so far...

...wonder why you have issues with it

 

[CrzWaco]

Also been using FDM the only problem I have is when there are a lot of downloads completed in the list it will hang from the day it was not opensource.

Did u change your connection type?

 

[Mephisto_Helix]

noob moment - apart from the obvious way of testing (start a d/load and pause it right away to see if it resumes), is there any other way of telling if resumes are supported?

 

[Dr.G]

@crzwaco yeah i did that wizzard thing, its weird because in the beggining it worked and now it isnt?

 

[rwenzori]

noob moment - apart from the obvious way of testing (start a d/load and pause it right away to see if it resumes), is there any other way of telling if resumes are supported?

In HTTP the only sure way is to issue a "Range: bytes=" in the headers and see if you get a "206 partial content" response that is smaller than the original file size. Some servers give you a partial content response but still send the whole file from start. Plenty crappy servers out there, but Apache servers are great.

In simple terms, the obvious way seems best.