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Old 11-03-2008, 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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