A good download accelerator?

[dikinher]

Anyone know of a good one I can use?

[methimpikehoses]

Just clean out your tubes for ultimate cyber satisfaction.

[Shamrock]

orbit downloader is all I use anymore. And it's free

[jeffmd]

well nothing really accelerates downloads, although (when supported) download managers can use multiple connections to help speed things up a little.

In the case of download managers, I have gone through MANY free ones and none of them were as polished or fast as GetRight. Getright has been around for many years, it offers a fairly uncluttered display and you can setup default behaviors (how many files to download simultaniously, and how many connection segaments per file to start with). Most download managers dont actually support multi segament downloading and the ones that did downloaded to seperate files which often froze up your system at the end of a download as it copied and pasted each section into one.

I hate paying for net applications, but getright I bought. (well, sorta. They also use that service where you can get the application free if you sign up for a trial service of some sort, in my case I signed up for a credit card which I never used).

[Greg]

This is all you will ever need:
http://www.freedownloadmanager.org/

[Badboy_12345]

This is all you will ever need:
http://www.freedownloadmanager.org/

QFT!
I have used it alot and its just perfect

[Shamrock]

Free Download Manager always crashed on me whenever I enabled a full screen application (aka a game), so I quit using it. This included version 3

[supra]

This is all you will ever need:
http://www.freedownloadmanager.org/

+1 for me. neva had problems with it.

dont know wot version im running though...

[crainger]

I bought and use Getright. It's pretty good, but a scheduling feature would be nice to schedule off peak downloads.

[Greg]

I bought and use Getright. It's pretty good, but a scheduling feature would be nice to schedule off peak downloads.
I bought GetRight years ago also and it was good. However there were on going bugs, serious ones like downloading 99% of a large file then deleting it, not resuming from resume supporting servers. I reported bugs complete with steps to reproduce but nothing was done. Free Download Manager was a god-send, it completely replaces GetRight with superior features and stability. Us Aussies pay too much for net so we need all the download help we can get.

[crainger]

Never had any of those issues with Getright.

[Crow_Nest]

FlashGet (http://www.flashget.com/en/download.htm) ftw. Been using it for years. The older version (v1.73) is better IMO.

[LovingSticky]

Flashget (for regular http/ftp links) + jDownloader (for rapidshare, megaupload, etc.)

[CaptNKILL]

I use the "DownloadThemAll" extension for Firefox:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/201

You can use it to accelerate downloads or to download a bunch of files from a single page without having to click them individually.

[jeffmd]

Downloadthemall is very different then the programs mentioned above. One is ment to download multiple links (images, media, what ever) from a web page, the other uses multiple connections to download a single file.

[Drolfrawd]

Listen up ! If you want to go faster you need to get better broadband , simple as that.

[supra]

Listen up ! If you want to go faster you need to get better broadband , simple as that.

+1

when ever i use an accelerator i always set the connections to 2. the only reason i use one is
to resume downloads and queue them up.

[CaptNKILL]

Downloadthemall is very different then the programs mentioned above. One is ment to download multiple links (images, media, what ever) from a web page, the other uses multiple connections to download a single file.

No, downloadthemall uses multiple connections to download a single file as well. It does both and doesn't require running anything other than Firefox. Very convenient. :)

http://www.downthemall.net/howto/features/

Increase your download speed up to 400%

DownThemAll features a smart download technique called ‘multipart download’. It splits files into multiple sections, which are downloaded simultaneously. This maximized use of bandwidth increases average download speed up to 400%.

You can manually add or remove sections whenever you want during the download, and you can choose the maximum number of chunks every file is split into.

[Dreamweavernoob]

Free Download Manager here.

Its got some flaws but is essentially sound.

Add rapidshare password into the password manager + import via clipboard =go to bed, wake up with everything done.

No hassle and its free.

[Sgt_Pitt]

was going to say freedownload manager, but a few others already have.

[Shamrock]

For the free download manager users...

Start downloading something, then start up a game, tell me if it freezes, or just stops? and what OS you use.

Whenever I use FDM...I start up a game usually, and it just stops. Doesn't even crash, just stops, and shuts down.

[Dreamweavernoob]

For the free download manager users...

Start downloading something, then start up a game, tell me if it freezes, or just stops? and what OS you use.

Whenever I use FDM...I start up a game usually, and it just stops. Doesn't even crash, just stops, and shuts down.

Using Windows XP atm and its working fine. :)

[Zhivago]

In a similar vein as DownloademAll, jDownloader is fantastic FOSS.