Downloading files is a major part of the daily activity of an internet user, whether they be drivers, programs, multimedia content, photos or something else. In theory, the ideal situation would be to not have to download anything and instead to make use of the resources directly, from their remote location. But the web isn’t fast or reliable enough for that yet. So, in the end, these things always end up getting downloaded to the local hard disk. Surprisingly, however, web browsers don’t tend to be optimised for this type of activity and, more often than you’d like, they end up losing entire sessions’ worth of files and data. The connection can also fail, meaning that any unfinished downloads are lost.

If you want to avoid these problems, a decent download manager is a good ally. Flashget is one of the most well-established and best-rated around at the moment, and with good reason. It integrates into all the most popular web browsers and also manages BitTorrent and FTP downloads and lets you browse through the file structure of the remote sites in order to hunt down even the hardest to find files. It also manages identification parameters for when authentication is required and keeps a detailed account of your download history, allowing you to resume interrupted downloads from where you left off. It hardly takes up any system resources and features options for setting the number of simultaneous tasks and the total maximum bandwidth to consume during downloads.

FlashGet (2.4.1.1142 Beta 4 version).

Tags: Internet, Security //