![]() I'd always thought download managers were stupid. Their primary advertised feature is downloading several chunks of a file in parallel "for faster downloads". Because of how TCP/IP works this idea is almost always terrible for large files. It only works because you're circumventing the server's bandwidth throttle; that's anti-social. But ReGet Pro can be configured in a more useful way, to limit bandwidth. I've got mine set up to download only one thread at a time with a max bandwidth of 180kBps, comfortably under my 240kBps connection. That way I can download big files in the background while doing other things on the net. It also turns out that ReGet's suspend and resume function is surprisingly useful; Firefox is suprisingly unstable to be using for 3+ hour downloads. |