internet download manager alternative

is their a free alternative to download manager as my downloads using IE are slow for a cable modem. On my old PC it would generally stay around 30 kb/s but now it is much lower. Internet download manager speeds them up but u cant use it after the trial. i am running on windows XP.

 

http://www.netants.com/ I use this one find it really easy to use.

 

I use the free verion of Downlaod Accelerator from Speedbit...

http://www.speedbit.com

 

I second Yoda's vote for Download Accelerator. GetRight is also another popular download manager, I have never tried it so can't say if it is good or not.

www.getright.com

 

never used download accelerator but did use getright for a while cant remember why i got rid of it now???

 

http://www.flashget.com/

If your serious

|Cain|

 

FlashGet is incredible. The best I've had - and since it goes through port 80 the firewall is none the wiser

 

I've never used a download accelerator/manager. What does it do? How does it work? And don't tell me to do a google, I'm too lazy

 

FlashGet (to name one) will split a download into parts, then open separate downloads for each part. So you download large files in a fraction of the time. It will also allow you to resume downloads, you can pause a download and continue at a later stage.

Some download tools are only nice GUI's for downloading, others help you by increasing the speed at which you download (like I described above)

If you access internet from work, like I do, and you have to get past a firewall then use something like FlashGet, which will allow you to do large downloads from behind a firewall

Whats also nice is that they keep a history of what you downloaded so you can find items easily.

Hope that helps

 

I would also recommend FlashGet, i have been using it for years and never had any problems. havn't had any experience with the others so i can't make any recommendations there.

Sauron