Download manager. Advice needed.

[Gurm]

Gozilla is EEEEEEEEEEEVIL.

It was ... ok. A decent program that showed promise. Then Version 4 came along, and it got... incomprehensibly bad.

- Gurm

[TnT]

Early Gozilla was aight, but yeah it got bad quick. As far as I know it was one of the earliest to start using spyware.

In Linux I've become very fond of wget on the command line.

[Paddy]

Another for FlashGet

[Gurm]

As I see it, there are exactly TWO things you can do with a download manager...

1. Use it to download single large files.
2. Use it to download lots of little files.

Now, if your primary goal is #1, then you need to choose the download manager that does this the best. Perhaps you have a lousy connection, lots of drops, or the servers you're connecting to have a nasty tendency to disconnect you. Maybe you just want to accelerate it, get multiple connections going to the same file. Try a few of these downloaders out, although in MY experience GetRight is a champion for these kinds of files. It even includes automatic mirror searching on FTPSearch and FileMirrors.com - a great help!

However, if your primary goal is #2, or if that's important to you at all (Pr0n Leechers, take note!) then you CANNOT use GetRight. It WILL crash. It has MAJOR memory management problems for lots of files. (If you don't believe me, go set it downloading a couple thousand pics/files and come back and see me when the GPF's start flying!) And once it's started crashing, you have to uninstall/reinstall to get it to stop. It's quite irksome in that way. For my money, ReGet was the better choice for keeping track of lots of small files. Its IE integration is top notch, and easy to use - I can nab an entire page of files with 2 clicks.

Stay FAR FAR AWAY from GoZilla, and from any program that hasn't been updated in more than 6 months. Let's face it - if it's not XP ready... (he says, as he continues to use BitBeamer as his primary FTP proggy).

- Gurm

[Ssin]

Flashget's the best.

[Nowhere]

Thanks, thing is I've tried most of proggies you've mentioned, but none of them hits the hot spot unfortunatelly...
I never liked Getright for example, not only because of adware (and this has changed as I can see from what you say) but...I just don't like the interface at all (my programs must look nice. Which doesn't mean some fancy themes (I don't use Luna for example), but just nice. Filezilla looks nice for example to me. BTW, have any of you tried Filezilla for ftp download, so you can know what I'm looking for? )

Utwig, could yoi point me to DL Express, seems that Google hadn't give me any links Oh, and currently I download smaller things with Mozilla Firebird, does Mozilla has something better?

Admiral, I've used Netants for a looong, looong time now, it's almost perfect for me, but...adware
And Flashget is a close second place in my book, but it's also adware or not free

az, don't know why exactly, but I'm allergic to Opera, sorry

Perhaps I'll try Reget, Gurm. And I know what you mean with Gozilla...it seems that every time there was a good download menager at some point, its authors must had added features demanded by whinning average users and bloat the thing
Actually I've found something that might be perfect
Leechget, 2002 version of which I've downloaded recently. It seems little heavy unfortunatelly...and their site is down now with preparation for launch of leechget 2003, I wouldn't be surprised if this will be bloatware
FreshDownload also looks good at first sight...(or perhaps some of you know better?) Gonna check.

I guess I'm still on my quest for finding perfect download manager

[Gurm]

Leechget was decent, but from what I recall it was absurdly buggy and used a lot of CPU.

- Gurm

[Admiral]

Admiral, I've used Netants for a looong, looong time now, it's almost perfect for me, but...adware

I've used Spybot - Search & Destroy to kill the adware on it. Not exactly legal, but in this corner of the world they can kiss my...

[Nowhere]

Allright, looks like I've found almost the perfect thing...
WackGet
as minimalistic and lightweight as you can get...a little too much even (but supports resume, most importantly ). I can't throttle back speed or specify custom download folder...oh well, one change in options isn't that much hastle (and I'm thinking about having several copies, each for specific tasks and with it's own download folder)

btw, fun little site with fun little apps
TinyApps.Org
Right now I'm seriously thinking about using the little thing meant only for sending emails (isn't always irritating when you click some email and full blown emial client starts couple of seconds?). Or rather when I'll have non temporal hdd and OS...

[UtwigMU]

http://www.metaproducts.com/mp/mpProducts_Downloads_Current.asp

I needed a virus scan before backup so I downloaded a trial version of Panda antivirus that recommended Download express.

Tried it, liked it.

Didn't try it on lots of files though.

[Nowhere]

From first impression I'd say this might be the perfect thing for me...with just one little irritating behavior, while resizing window. Oh well, easiest solution: resize once and never again

[agallag]

Sorry for dragging up an old thread, but I just wanted to thank Nowhere for the recommendation of WackGet. It's exactly what I was looking for

[Kooldino]

"wget" is king.

[Wombat]

Yes, wget is very handy. Expecially with the leech plugin for Mozilla.

[Kurt]

Originally posted by Gurm
Gozilla is EEEEEEEEEEEVIL.

It was ... ok. A decent program that showed promise. Then Version 4 came along, and it got... incomprehensibly bad.

- Gurm

3.93c was the last useable version. they've messed up search.gozilla.com before they released the arsed version 4.

BTW, LeechFTP user here (it's still calling home for updates...)
I never even got to install the BitBeamer proggie, even if it's lying there somewhere...it looked promising though...