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Which is your favorite download manager for a windows OS?

rich_m wrote: Which is your favorite download manager for a windows OS?

Uhm... wget in mingw?

Flashget combined with the Flashgot Firefox extension

Wget Windows binary. Works better than any other download manager I've tried.

Usually I don't bother with extra software. A rather reliable DSL connection with flatrate does that for you - I just right-click, "Download link target" from MSIE and that's it.

If I have to bulk-leech stuff, it's wget under Cygwin.

Same as Solar basicly, except I use Firefox. Works well enough.

after trying many of them, i've finally come to the conclusion that for really big files like iso etc, i use IDM (Internet download mgr), b/w usage is always above 90%. and for smaller or moderate ones is a whole range of choices, maybe LeechGet, Flashget, DAP.

btw, i dont know why my experience with those dlnd managers/accelerators is not good when it comes to big downloads (dvd iso), there, IDM works the best. and i've no idea why that is so.

I just use firefox nothing extra, sometimes fireftp for ftp downloads

Just Firefox or ABC (yet Another Bittorrent Client) for torrents. ABC is great - it's very simple, and it doesn't have hundreds of features that I never will use.

-Stephen

I'm always afraid of download managers.. I'm not sure why.

me too
every download manager I've had gave me spyware

Firefox download manager for small sized files and login/cookie protected downloads, wget for large files ( ISO images... ). I'm under Gentoo Linux and mainly using text utilities ( even under X ).

Axel