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View Poll Results: Vote for the best download manager............!!!!!!!

BitComet 4 9.30%
Download Accelerator Plus(DAP) 9 20.93%
DownThemAll! (Firefox Extension) 2 4.65%
Flash Get 3 6.98%
Free Download Manager 5 11.63%
Internet Download Manager (IDM) 24 55.81%
Orbit Downloader 4 9.30%
Other 1 2.33%
Multiple Choice Poll. Voters: 43. This poll is closed

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Old 03-11-08, 12:21 AM   #1
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I have been using the free download manager for all my download related matters and found it good but wanted to know whether there is any other better or any download manager which makes the downloading faster and better and can even download torrents, etc.?!
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i prefer free download manager
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i prefer dap
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Does DAP work with FireFox 3 ?
I got a message while installing FF3..thats is not Compatible with DAP..
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yes it has issues, but it works partially
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i don't understand the use of these download managers claiming that they increase the download speed by breaking the download into many connections. What will happen is that the individual parts will be downloaded at a lower speed, all the individual speeds added up to be your internet plan speed... IMO for pausing and resuming ff's default manager is enough.
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yes it has issues, but it works partially
Partially...How??
When iam surfing using FF3...when i right click on any image or anthing...i dont get the option "Download using DAP"..
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i don't understand the use of these download managers claiming that they increase the download speed by breaking the download into many connections. What will happen is that the individual parts will be downloaded at a lower speed, all the individual speeds added up to be your internet plan speed... IMO for pausing and resuming ff's default manager is enough.
Not true at all. Have you heard of parallel multi-threading. This is exactly what download managers do.

Your ISP may be allowing 2 mbps (256 KB/s) but the source server could be far off and busier than usual resulting in a serial speed of 60 KB/s. By opening multiple connections @ 60 KB/s, the download manager optimizes the connection and downloads the file faster. I have seen this happening.
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I use IDM(full version).
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disable the DAP plugin restart ff then enable and again restart.
this shd do it
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All lame answers here bro becoz they all sucks just download orbit download it totally free and it also has an feature called grab++ that can download all embedded videos from any site like youtube.com
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on vista i don't have any download manager but on xp i use IDM (Internet Download Manager)
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I use IDM(full version).
Hey Could you give me a lint for IDM complete version is it compatible with Firefox 3 ... heard IDM is a good downloader
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search on torrent sites... u'll get it there...
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All lame answers here bro becoz they all sucks just download orbit download it totally free and it also has an feature called grab++ that can download all embedded videos from any site like youtube.com
Not all video sites. But as a plain Download Manager its the best there is.
I have tried.
Orbit Downloader
Gozilla (old version),
Download Accelerator Plus(free version),
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And Orbit Downloader is the best.
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My votes goes to IDM....it is very efficient...
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all the individual speeds added up to be your internet plan speed... IMO for pausing and resuming ff's default manager is enough.
Hi all,

I totally agree on the what StarryKnight mentioned above.

At the same time, I disagree on the following too.

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Not true at all. Have you heard of parallel multi-threading. This is exactly what download managers do.

Your ISP may be allowing 2 mbps (256 KB/s) but the source server could be far off and busier than usual resulting in a serial speed of 60 KB/s. By opening multiple connections @ 60 KB/s, the download manager optimizes the connection and downloads the file faster. I have seen this happening.
Technically no one can pull the extra bandwidth from the ISP.

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Technically no one can pull the extra bandwidth from the ISP.

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I never indicated that you will get more speed than allowed by ISP. I said that you will get the most of the bandwidth and speeds may match the actual bandwidth speed.
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I prefer IDM(Internet Download Manager) full version cuz its simple and effective..... for me dap is not getting integrated with firefox 3.0.3 but IDM works like a charm....
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