download managers

[ruthie]

do you use download managers? any recommended ones?

[Kenneth]

iGetter. Go to versiontracker and do a search for more

[Adel]

I swear by Speed Download.

[Henjie]

iGetter is pretty good.

Originally posted by Adel

Whoa! Nice bandwidth. :-)


~Henjie

[Edited on 1-4-2005 by Henjie]

[PatrickGaerlan]

I use Speed Download 2 also. It's ok, though my experience is that resumed downloads are usually corrupted. Another problem I have is that stalled downloads rarely resume by itself (I've been assured that this will be fixed in the next release).

[Adel]

Happens to me too, sometimes, but not often enough to be a real bother. Maybe just once or twice, so far.

I like the fact that I can just copy any download link from a webpage and add it to the queue, and SD just goes to work on it.

The one nuisance I sometimes come across is when I don't throttle the bandwidth. SD tends to tyranically usurp the entire download stream, even from non-SD downloads already in progress or simple browser requests to create a webpage, and it strangles everything until they choke to a dead stop and it just chugs along selfishly, full-bore, until it's sated and finished.

Good for your download, since it comes down the tube as fast as possible, but it disables you from doing anything else that requires bandwidth.

[Edited on 1-4-2005 by Adel]

[ruthie]

thanks a lot for the suggestions.

[super_ed]

been getting a lot of SD2 Crash Reporter lately? any similar incidents?

[cyberprince]

Just curious. What's the main use for a download manager? I still am able to resume downloads using the default download manager that comes with Safari. Does it really accelerate downloads? What other nifty features in a download can you NOT live without?