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Recommendations for a download manager?

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I4AT

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Either stand-alone or an add-on for FireFox, the integrated one for FF has never worked for me, anytime my connection drops out it doesn't resume any of my downloads and I'm forced to start over.

I don't need anything fancy, just looking for a light weight manager that will resume all after a disconnect. Is the 'Download Statusbar' add-on for FF an actual manager or just a monitoring tool? The description doesn't really specify.
 
I've had good experience for a few years using Free Download Manager.

It's fast, small, you can right click on your completed download and run the File Integrity Checker without needing a separate app for that, and it includes a spider that'll download entire websites including all their linked subpages if you want to.

And it is of course free.
 
Wow, using Orbit kicked my download speed for this file up to 400KB/s compared to ~9KB/s using Firefox. I killed my connection mid download and it resumed with no problem. I'll give FDM a try later and compare the two, thanks guys.
 
FDM is good for freeware.
Myself? I actually purchased GetRight, and although it becomes unstable when handling huge amounts of files at once (>600), the feature set is unparalelled. It is nagware, but never actually disables itself, so try it, if you like it you can keep using it for free.

And I4AT: IME firefox has an abhorrid downloading system. The one in opera (which is also actually quite below my standards) is much, much better at download rates.
 
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