Johnie said:Now that I have gone over from MS Internet Explorer to Firefox,
I am missing using "Download Express" to speed up downloads.
Can Download Express be made to work with Firefox, or is
there another multithread download manager that will work with
it?
Download Express makes the most of ADSL speeds. It does this byWill Dormann said:Maybe you can get a better reply by stating exactly what this "Download
Express" does that the Firefox's built-in download manager does not.
-WD
This extention should do it, I use it with Prozilla:Johnie said:Download Express makes the most of ADSL speeds. It does this by
opening up seven connections with the download web site, all in
parallel. So - in theory, you can get a big download in one seventh of
the time, though in practice it is about a third of the time.
As well as this, if you get a problem halfway through a big download
it can pick up from that point later on.
I downloaded the "Pricelessware" freeware CD - about 525MB - with
this in about 2 hours.
Johnie.
I am sure the other people who tried to use that site appreciated youJohnie said:Download Express makes the most of ADSL speeds. It does this by
opening up seven connections with the download web site, all in
parallel. So - in theory, you can get a big download in one seventh of
the time, though in practice it is about a third of the time.
As well as this, if you get a problem halfway through a big download
it can pick up from that point later on.
I downloaded the "Pricelessware" freeware CD - about 525MB - with
this in about 2 hours.
Johnie.
Now that I have gone over from MS Internet Explorer to Firefox,
I am missing using "Download Express" to speed up downloads.
Can Download Express be made to work with Firefox, or is
there another multithread download manager that will work with
it?
TIA
Johnie
Johnie said:Download Express makes the most of ADSL speeds. It does this by
opening up seven connections with the download web site, all in
parallel. So - in theory, you can get a big download in one seventh of
try to flashget
Johnie ´£¨ì:
I am sure the other people who tried to use that site appreciated you
hogging all their bandwidth with such a program. Most download
managers, such as GetRight will find mirrors, or only open two
connections. Seven is downright abuse!
Standards dictate two.Iain Cheyne said:I didn't realise that download managers were tough on servers. How many
connections is fair? Just two? How many does Firefox open on default?
I didn't realise that download managers were tough on servers. How many
connections is fair? Just two? How many does Firefox open on default?
Firefox manager just opens one by default. However, for broadband, the
important feature is Resume in case you lose your connection so you
don't have to start all over again. Conor is right, two connections is
considered fair.
DownloadWith extension integrates with arbitary download accelarators.
http://downloadwith.mozdev.org/
Johnie said:Download Express makes the most of ADSL speeds. It does this by
opening up seven connections with the download web site, all in
parallel. So - in theory, you can get a big download in one seventh of
the time, though in practice it is about a third of the time.
As well as this, if you get a problem halfway through a big download
it can pick up from that point later on.
Jed said:Hogging that many connections is really rude. In fact, I think that
even two connections for the same file is one too many.
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