Talk:Comparison of download managers

message: Two options that could be added :
# safefrom.net
# Ummy Downloader  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.177.168.194 (talk) 12:55, 15 May 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Additions?

message: I've tried "LeechGet" and "Orbit Downloader" and neither of them seem to be able to postprocess a .asx file and use mms, as listed in the article.   Could someone else verify this.   So far I've found only "GetASFStream" (which isn't listed in the article) can do this.   Maybe the option was not obvious in "LeechGet" and "Orbit Downloader", but I could not get it to work.   If the claim is untrue then this article should be updated to reflect this.   --98.70.129.182 (talk) 06:03, 31 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: mms?

message: *Agree. This should be merged, though all entries in here that are not there should have their pros and cons listed. --SheeEttin 19:10, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge

message: Needs a lot more entries... adding the one I use Ace of Risk 14:20, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Comments

message: (This was "outsourced")
As a new commenter i am not completely sure if i have selected the correct niche to make the following observations and questions. granted,
this comment is not on the above levels, but for someone merely wondering if "download manager" refers to possibly a Windows term or is always more general, could there be more disambiguation about what it is not?  for example, when i considered downloading Mozilla's latest version but saw in its forum about trouble involving a (whose?) download manager, and was prompted re using  the default dmg opener app  on my mac, i could not see any Mozilla forum on that default app, and wondered if i would be better off using---possibly? a type of download manager app, or different dmg file launcher app instead, and wished more had been provided about how these differ on Mozilla's FAQ, knowledge base, or even forum.   but the system requirements for this release, and the difficulties encountered in installing reflect a wide range of considerations for ordinary users considering downloads as substantial as a browser or browser release or its update(s) maybe. It's my impression that the discrete issues raised on the Mozilla forum re downloading Firefox 3.0.11 are apart from the question of whethe,  or which "download manager" to employ.Fairlylowtekk (talk) 00:13, 14 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  What is a download manager and what is it not ? 

message: I'd recommend merging the columns to be more descriptive. Some programs may be multiplatform but require libraries, applications or virtual machines.
Disagree, makes it much harder to sort if you pull the data out into a spreadsheet app.
: I would like ONE "super-" title/caption above all three colums, saying: platform.
: "Platform" is an established term, therefore I would prefer this one, instead of "Runs on".
: Three separate colums are much easier to search: If I am searching for a DM for a specific platform, it is much easier to look for just ONE word: "yes" or "no", instad of having 3 or 4 different "words"/abbreviations in one column.
:Steue (talk) 00:38, 4 March 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Replace "runs on"  columns with  a single "platform" column 

message: One more thing I'd like to know about these download managers before I select one is whether they can be set to follow (x)html/xlink links recursively to download linked pages. Edit: I tried 2 download managers listed here (wxDownload Fast and Truedownloader) and neither of them do what I wanted. I think I'm going to have to go with the commandline tool wGet.
Also, the 5.1 build of wxDownload Fast doesn't seem that stable (it keeps crashing for me, and according to the bug reports I'm not the only one it's happened to). If this seems to be the concensus somebody should update the chart to reflect that.
--Logomachist 21:18, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree. Recursive downloading is an important feature. Would you consider making it into the chart? --Tunheim 13:50, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  Recursive downloading is different beast about different protocols. For example, ReGet had it for ages for FTP, and only recently added for HTML (and it is not stable to my experience) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 212.176.32.19 (talk) 14:32, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

text: Following links automaticly!!, with exactly definable conditions (as to: how deep and within which domain), is THE key feature, why I 'm looking for a DM. Steue (talk) 00:52, 4 March 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Can they be set to follow links? 

message: aria2 now runs on Windows. See http://smithii.com/aria2 for details. Ross.smith 09:32, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I disagree. The aria2 web page states "Please note that MinGW/Cygwin port is extremely alpha stage, so don't use it other than testing purpose". There is a major difference between managing to get something to run under Cygwin and having a program supporting the Windows platform. If you think my point here is invalid, please revert my change, I will not touch it anymore. But please consider your actions: If any program that can be tweaked to run on a OS or platform by using any kind of emulators or third-party libraries ahould be considered native to that platform, we might end up with a HUGE list. --Tunheim 13:48, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I second Tunheim's opinion above (that aria2 can't be considered Windows native). Though I might add that the Macports version of aria2 is at version 0.7.1 while the current official build is v0.10.1 (as of today). I also nominate Wget for inclusion in this list (see below) (even though Wget 'only' supports HTTP, HTTPS and FTP) --Lemi4 17:37, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  Strange that you link to a revision from 5 mos ago instead of the current one. See Macports version of aria2 for version 0.10.1 (latest version). Antini 00:24, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  aria2 on Mac and Windows? 

message: How about adding a new column: Segmented downloading (from Mirrors)?
--213.47.53.102 19:46, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Additional column ''Segmented downloading (from Mirrors)'' 

message: There is no Speed Limit feature in IDM and that's too bad.
I'll correct that.
There is a possible limitation of the amount of data downloaded though, but this can't be used as a speed limitation, as it stops the downloads once the limit is reached. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 200.176.140.199 (talk) 03:19, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Speed Limit in IDM 

message: Just thinking of what I personally would consider the GNOME-based equivalent of what a typical Windows user would consider a "download manager" / "download accelerator": Wget.
Keep in mind though, that Wget for Windows is a CLI utility (though it is officially recognised by the FSF maintainers). And although Wget has at least one GUI wrapper I can think of, wGetGUI is... confusing, to put it mildly (at least in comparison to the Gnome / Linux only GWGET). "Mere mortal" Ubuntu / Gnome users might be better off using GWGET.
--Lemi4 17:19, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Wget]] / GWGET? 

message: (sourced out)
BTW, can anybody think of a Free Software download manager for Windows?
--Lemi4 17:19, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: See wxDownload Fast for a Free Software download manager on Windows. Antini 00:24, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:   Just look under the "license" field for Free licenses and the "Runs on" field for windows support! Satur9 08:45, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Free DM for Windows? 

message: I propose the protocol section be expanded to reflect whether each manager can resume on each protocol supported, as some managers don't support resume on all protocols. Satur9 08:45, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Resume per protocol 

message: I'm trying to reformat this article by adding Sortable, 
:{The page to the following link does no longer exist. Steue (talk) 01:44, 4 March 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: please take a look at User:29dupe/Comparison of download managers.}
There's only a basic formatting for General informations for now. There's some things to note:
* I added the Adware/Spyware line back because, except original poster, nobody appears to agree to remove it in the discussion.
* The reason I separate product versions into another row (e.g. Download Express, Download Express Advance) because the feature set of these two products must be different, merging it in one row led to confusions.
* Actually I want to use rowspan for separate product version but it breaks the sortable, either fix sortable or separate rows.
Please leave a comment here. - 29dupe 20:16, 4 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reformat 

message: In my opinion, the following columns of the Features section need information about whether their values can be changed on-the-fly while the download is running:
* Download acceleration
* URLs per file
* Speed limit
Candid Dauth 15:22, 12 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Using features on-the-fly 

message: The table shows Gigaget as adware. Their webpage states this:
Free and safe 
•   100% free
•   No adware or spyware
•   No registration required
•   Data transfer encrypted
So what?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.83.1.51 (talk) 23:51, 18 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  is Gigaget adware? 

message: What is required for this to be green?  What does "yes" mean?  Shouldn't "unlimited" be green?  You can't download something with no location, so you can't have zero here ... the category is really asking about support for multiple URLs per file, so "1" should be "No" and should be colored red.
I think green ("Yes") should be used for managers that can download from 2+ URLs simultaneously, yellow (called "Serial" or perhaps "Failover only") should be used for managers that can handle multiple URLs but not simultaneously, and red should be used for managers that do not support multiple URLs.  The number of URLs doesn't really matter, especially since the reported lowest maximum (>1) is nine (which seems "good enough").  If you still think the number is useful, you can still do "Yes, 16" (green) or "Serial, 50" (yellow).  In this case, the category should be renamed to   "simultaneous mirror d/l" or the like. Adam KatzΔtalk 19:19, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  URLs per file 

message: I assume this just means to be able to set a fixed throttle -- a max bandwidth for one download, or all downloads being managed?  But in many cases the desire instead, certainly on dial-up, is to be able to set connection priority -- to be able to set all the downloads being managed to low-priority, so that they don't compete for bandwidth with browsing etc.  Do any managers offer this feature?
-69.87.204.66 (talk) 17:04, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Good question.  Is the title's meaning:
A) The speed of downloads is limited.
B) The user can assign speed limits to downloads (aka prioritizing)
C) The maximum speed that the download manager can handle
???
Certainly, one would hope that no program has (A) or (C).ReveurGAM (talk) 09:31, 7 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Speed limit 

message: I think the feature table should include columns for web crawler / recursive downloading and batch downloading capabilities. -- Gordon Ecker (talk) 05:54, 6 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Recursive downloading / web crawler and batch downloading capabilities 

message: How is it with the proxy support of HTTP<GET>
Can the features list of Nettransport be updated,
because NetTransport supports the most protocols it could be one of the prime choices,
if only the features list would be more clear on several points.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.168.243.40 (talk) 09:10, 16 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  HTTP<GET> 

message: It reads "Proprietary Freeware GNU General Public License" which cannot be correct
79.177.13.219 (talk) 15:02, 5 October 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Right. Fixed it to the same as in BitComet. Thanks. Haakon (talk) 15:51, 5 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bitcomet license 

message: The reason is that
* ViDown FLV Downloader is specific to video files
--222.64.211.100 (talk) 08:39, 16 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Download file type comparison....??? 

message: IMHO, I believe it would be very useful to show which browsers each DM can integrate with.  Many only integrate with IE and MF, but some include Opera, Netscape, Chrome, Safari, etc.  People looking for a good DM will want to know this - they won't want to download something they can't use or has limited value.  Codes could be used to represent the supported browsers (IE, MF, O, NS, GC, AS etc.) to keep the table trim.  Please share your thoughts.
As I have iterated elsewhere, I am here as a person looking for info, thus I submit these suggestions to the editors in the hopes that these improvements will be made.  I have no time to do it - why else would I come here asking for more information?ReveurGAM (talk) 07:37, 12 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Integration with Browsers Clarification Needed 

message: Another suggestion....Many DMs are also multi-purpose, meaning that they can handle not just programs and data files, but they're also designed to get media files (sound, video, pictures, etc.), while others specialize in only media files or just maps and such.  IMHO, it would be a good idea to put those specialist programs into their own lists/tables, but it's also possible that they be integrated into the main DM list.
What are your thoughts on this?ReveurGAM (talk) 07:39, 12 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Should Specialist DMs Have Their Own List? 

message: This program seems to have gone from merely a mild browser hijack to something worse, but it would be best if others can verify what I experienced as I've got some system issues.
# The software updater feature provides links to outdated and fictitious updates to programs, and is thus very unreliable.
# In addition, the software updater stopped being disable-able last year.  When I unchecked it, I continued to get notifications of updates.  I commented on this problem with Elise (head of the anti-malware training program at BleepingComputer.com), who also seemed to have experienced that, as well as other issues, and has discontinued usage.
# After uninstalling, downloads continued to be directed to Orbit even though it was no longer on my computer.  I eventually managed to get that removed.
I think there was another program, but I've forgotten what it was.  Anyways, can anyone else check these out? ReveurGAM (talk) 14:02, 26 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Orbit Download Manager 

message: This column doesn't sort properly. It sorts them like this: 2 years ago, 21 months ago, 3 years ago, 4 days ago.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Torydude (talk • contribs) 07:53, 18 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Latest Stable Release 

message: The talk page has a much more complete list of these applications - the article makes it seem like there are only a small number of programs of this nature, and I was left wondering where the rest went until I thought to come to the Talk page.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.46.148.166 (talk) 00:08, 26 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Talk page much more useful than article 

message: In the PDF download of the article (and A4 printing), the tables are too wide so they go out of the visible paper size. We should re-factor the tables to make them less wide. Sofia Lucifairy (talk) 18:20, 25 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tables too wide for PDF download/printing 

message: I know that there are quite a few download managers capable of downloading embedded swf and flv files, and web crawlers capable of detecting links embedded in java, but what about HTML5? Are there any download managers or web crawlers capable of downloading pages or sites with HTML5 content? -- Gordon Ecker, WikiSloth (talk) 02:29, 28 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Are there any download managers with HTML5 support? 

message: I have downloaded and tried to use "Free Download Manager" and all the Russian and Chinese file names on my Western Windows 7 computer appeared as garbage characters in the application. However, Filezilla and various Bittorrent client applications work fine. I suggest to add a column in an apprpriate table indicating which if any download managers have and don't have Unicode (UTF8 or better) support. To start, the latest version of Free Download Manager as of today does 'not' support Unicode Petesimon2 (talk) 01:49, 24 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unicode and international characters support 

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