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| 469324 | 2006-07-08 05:15:00 | Hi, I cannot see any reason for using a download manager, many developers actually make splitting unavailable and you end up with a corrupt download, may have made some sense back in the dial up days however no longer needed today. | jenae (254) | ||
| 469325 | 2006-07-08 06:10:00 | The dial up days are still here for many of us. Managers can have sophisticated schedulers within them. |
zqwerty (97) | ||
| 469326 | 2006-07-08 08:33:00 | Download managers are also great for users that have on peak and off peak data caps on their DSL connections. I use Internet Download Manager to schedule my big downloads into the off peak time. I've never seen Internet Download Manager corrupt a download. |
gcarmich (10068) | ||
| 469327 | 2006-07-08 08:34:00 | Dailup for me too | beama (111) | ||
| 469328 | 2006-07-08 09:29:00 | Hi, I cannot see any reason for using a download manager, many developers actually make splitting unavailable and you end up with a corrupt download, may have made some sense back in the dial up days however no longer needed today. there is not many servers that are non-resumable and non-splitting, in fact i dare say most try to encorage splitting as it unloads some of the load on the server (ie share the load across many servers). most non-IE browser now support resumable downloading anyway. its only stupid IE that is has a horrible downloading function. also its the control aspect of it. as a user a download manger helps you manage your pc use. unfortunatly web designers love to control what happens on someone elses pc which is why there is so many complaints by webbys about non-IE browser that don't let them control functions on the browser. rather bluntly they can go get ****** what i do on my pc is my buisness not theirs. |
tweak'e (69) | ||
| 469329 | 2006-07-08 09:47:00 | My personal favourite at the moment... TrueDownloader (francis.dupont.free.fr) A basic simple no frills downloading utility. Perfect for my minimalist persona :D |
bob_doe_nz (92) | ||
| 469330 | 2006-07-08 09:52:00 | Another thing some D/L Managers can do which IE can't is Segemented downloads. Say for example a site where you are D/L from has 4 servers which have a max speed of 50kbps each you can set up your manager to use those 4 servers and instead of D/L at 50kbps if useing IE, with your manager you would be D/L at 200kbps if on a 2mb or higher broadband plan. Trevor :) |
Trev (427) | ||
| 469331 | 2006-07-08 14:37:00 | I personally like Gigaget. Integrates via Flashgot, and downloads from multiple. For example if a new popular large file is out and download servers are hammered, then it'll download from all the servers it can get, resulting in fast++ downloads :D A popular way to test it would be downloading linus. Debian, Ubuntu and Gentoo would be good ones to see how fast your internet REALLY goes |
Edward (31) | ||
| 469332 | 2006-07-08 16:35:00 | Hi, I cannot see any reason for using a download manager, many developers actually make splitting unavailable and you end up with a corrupt download, may have made some sense back in the dial up days however no longer needed today. I'm sorry but there are many people still on dial-up and most sites do allow resume and multiple downloads. So I say they are worth there weight in gold. Did a download the other day on dialup of 77MB or there abouts and it ran smoothly with flashget. I reckon there is a greater proportion of sites which allow multiple downloads to single. |
mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 469333 | 2006-07-08 16:49:00 | there is not many servers that are non-resumable and non-splitting, in fact i dare say most try to encorage splitting as it unloads some of the load on the server (ie share the load across many servers). most non-IE browser now support resumable downloading anyway. its only stupid IE that is has a horrible downloading function. also its the control aspect of it. as a user a download manger helps you manage your pc use. unfortunatly web designers love to control what happens on someone elses pc which is why there is so many complaints by webbys about non-IE browser that don't let them control functions on the browser. rather bluntly they can go get ****** what i do on my pc is my buisness not theirs. And they should learn to use the W3C standards. It has amazed me the number of sites that have not worked lately through not conforming to those standards. One interesting addition to Firefox is the extension HTML validator. One site I have done that they ran through I think Word made such a mess that it created errors and the validator could not work as well as the graphics being haywire. I assume it was word because of the header. |
mikebartnz (21) | ||
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