Flashget File Download Manager

The question that always comes up when I´am talking about the benefits of download managers is why would someone need to use them at all. This can´t be answered in a hurry but my initial response is always the same. First, download managers are great time safers if you download many files from a server that allows only a few connections from the same IP. It´s tiresome to wait until one download is finished to start the next.

With download managers you simply add all files to it, define the maximum number of connections and do something else in the meantime. Then we have servers that tend to give timeouts or close connections from time to time. Flashget is a download manager that is able to resume downloads. You would not want to download a file for hours only to find out that you have to start over because the download was terminated from the other site.

Most download managers are able to manage file downloads in a better way than browsers for instance. You can download files automatically to categories for instance which helps if you download lots of files at once. You can monitor downloads by looking at server status messages and download progress. Again more information than the normal browser provides.

Flashget is one of those great freeware tools that match their commercial counterparts in many ways and probably excell them in some. I can only recommend this tool if you are looking for a download manager.

Firefox users might want to take a look at the firefox extension flashgot which works well with the flashget download manager.