Wow David No one wanted to touch this one... is this a touchy subject or something?
I have used Free Download Manager (freedownloadmanager.org) on windows for years with good results. It was good at downloading multiple segments of a file simultaneously and also resuming a partial download after an interruption - very useful for large files. It does not have a Mac version. SInce moving to mac I have mostly just been using the standard download feature in Firefox but have used 'Down them all' which is available as an addon for Firefox. I mainly use it for convenience than speed and am not sure if there is much of a speed improvement at this stage but it seems to work fairly quickly. I am not sure if browsers on Macs download multiple segments of files simultaneously or not but I have found that Firefox is not that good at resuming interrupted downloads. So a download manager is helpful for that. I am not a fan of Safari so I cannot really speak from experience about it. (I tried to like it, I really did, but found that to get all the functionality I was used to the addons would leave me badly out of pocket - whereas the addons for Firefox and Chrome are mostly free... and before they all cry "quality" - just as good in my experience. I was willing to pay a little but the list was adding up to ridiculous figures. But that is another story.) Regards Shayne On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 5:08 PM, David Wood <[email protected]> wrote: > > After all the recent mails on ISP's and speeds, I decided to phone Westnet > Support one more time to see what could be done to help us poor folk out in > the sticks. > > It seems there is little on offer. Where we are situated there is no ADSL2 > available but they were helpful in "downgrading" my plan as I was actually > paying for a speed that I could not attain... a saving of $20 per month.... > thank you Westnet. > > During the course of the conversation the guy at Westnet did suggest I look > at a "Download Manager" to assist with the speed, quoting that he had used > one and improved speed by up to 20%. Does anyone have any experience of > using a download manager or can make a recommendation? I have looked in the > archives and could find nothing there and then "Googled" as usual and was > hit with a myriad of offers. > > Any input on this would be much appreciated. > > Thanks, > David > > iMac 24" - 3.06GHz Intel Core 2 Duo > Version 10.6.4 > > > > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Unsubscribe - <mailto:[email protected]> > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:[email protected]>
