Best Download Manager?

[CrowDog]

I want something that simply sppeds up downloads and let me resume broken downloads. I dont want and ad filled POS that trys to take over my comp and control everything I wanna download.

Any ideas?

 

[IamDavid]

DAP Pro. No spyware or bloat..

 

[hamburglar]

Originally posted by: IamDavid
DAP Pro. No spyware or bloat..

 

[BlueWeasel]

I use this one --> Star Downloader

 

[Chad]

Definately Star Downloader, much MUCH better than DAP in my opinion!

 

[NeoMadHatter]

i use star downloader. seems to work pretty well. good enough for me.

 

[JackBurton]

I use FreshDownload and it's great! Totally free and no spyware or banners.

 

[bigrash]

Originally posted by: hamburglar

Originally posted by: IamDavid
DAP Pro. No spyware or bloat..

Another vote for DAP. I used Getright but I like DAP better

 

[Rand]

Star Downloader.

A bit better then DAP IMHO, I recently switched from DAP to Star Downloader myself.
GetRight is a distant third.

 

[Jolt2]

MetaProducts Download Express

Copied from their site-
"MetaProducts Download Express (DE) is a Windows 9x/NT/2000/ME/XP program that allows you to download individual files from the Web and FTP sites at the maximum possible speed. Multiple downloading channels technology significantly decreases the time necessary to download files. Download Express is a small (about 260 Kb) Browser plugin application. Currently it supports Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 and higher. By default, Download Express intercepts all clicks on files with extentions: 123, ARJ, CAB, CDW, COM, DOC, EXE, JAR, LHA, MP2, MP3, MPE, MPEG, MPG, PDF, PPT, RAR, RTF, TAR, XLS and ZIP. Download Express has the auto-learn feature. It will ask you about including filename extentions when you add files with a new extention using browser click hot keys. When you cancel, Download Express opens a file window for unwanted file types and asks if you want to exclude this extention from its file types list.

Browser clicks monitoring hot keys:
- Please hold Alt+Control keys down when clicking to add any link to Download Express;
- Please hold Shift key down when clicking to have Download Express ignore a link. "

I use it at work, it's small and works well without all the added junk. Oh, and it is free, too!

 

[Thinker]

I used getright, flashget and DAP and found DAP to be the best

|Thinker|

 

[Bovinicus]

I used to use GetRight. I never had any problems with the program in terms of functionality or bugs, but I haven't tried any of the others mentioned here.

 

[NEVERwinter]

my favs:

- MetaProducts Download Express; IE only, only speeds up download and resume broken ones.
- DAP; supports Opera ( I don't use IE)
- GetRight; to access anything that DAP can't (such as some web-scripting)

 

[igowerf]

I use getright because of the file browser..

 

[BoomAM]

DAP.
I have the standard version, and the only thing wrong with it is that you get a small banner at the top of each download window. But for a free program thats that useful, then its worth it. Plus some of the ads are funny.

 

[Doh!]

Does Star Downloader support Mozilla (browser integration)? I use flashget since its plug-in for Opera also works for with Mozilla.

 

[Juniper]

I use getright, never bothered to find out if there were other similar programs