Download Manager

Hey All,
I'm looking for feedback on which download manager is the best and why? Is it GetRight, Flashget, or leechget? Are there any others? I really like the resumable download option but don't know if the claims for faster downloads are for real with a dialup connection..

Thanks For your Input !!
Rockit

 

Hi Rockit,

Try Meta-Products Download Express, it works fine for me. It's free, and uncompleted downloads are automatically stored so that you can resume them. It downloads through up to 7 connections, but I'm not really sure that downloads are speeded up much.
Do any of the download managers really accelerate the downloads?

Roger.

 

Star downloader. Do a Google search, you should find some links for it.

 

Under some circumstances you'll get faster downloads and under others you won't. I've used Getright for years. I don't have any experience with the others. When I was on dial-up and was downloading a file from a slow server, I could usually increase the speed of the download using segmented downloading. With Getright, if you're downloading something and have a slow connection to the server, you can split the download between different servers. You simply open a connection to another server and it will download another part of the file from that server. You can open as many connections as there are servers available but with dial-up you'd probably never have more than three, maybe four connections depending on how much bandwidth you have and how much each connection uses. Once you've used up all of your bandwidth, there's no gain by opening more connections. If the first connection turns out to be a good one than there's nothing to gain by opening any others. Whether or not you can speed things up using segmented downloads depends on whether or not you're using all of your available bandwidth. There are other variables that can have an effect on things but without getting too deep into it, this has been my experience with the program.

Those that stand to gain the most from the segmented downloads are broadband users. With the extra bandwidth it has, you can really get a boost by opening more connections but because of the speed of cable, DSL, etc., it's usually not necessary unless you're downloading a really large file. Even so, if you're on dial-up and you're downloading something at 1.5 or 2 kb/s, in my opinion, it's a big plus if you can boost that to 3, 3.5 or 4.