Best Download Manager for Mac?

Why do you want one?

Personally I don't use any of them. I have found them to be basically worthless.



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Allan


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That is what they claim but in my testing of them I was never able to realize an increase at all. Personally I look at the file segmentation trick as smoke and mirrors.


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In the past, some download managers have caused quite a few problems. Won't say the specific ones as they are quite defensive, although it was obvious their software was causing the problem. Download managers are more trouble than their worth.

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You asked for our opinion on download managers and so far everyone has said they are basically worthless crap. I don't know what else we can do for you.

If you believe they help then use them along with your tinfoil hat.

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Nano --

Welcome to Apple Discussions!
We're not staff, but other Mac users here, asking questions and sharing solutions.

So, are you on dial-up?
Is that the reason you are looking for faster downloads?

My personal favorite is iGetter. Other's favor Speed Download. They are the two most popular download managers for the Mac although there are a few others that appeal to various people. Contrary to what others say here I've never seen reports of any them causing problems.

I find iGetter useful (and this equally applies to Speed Download too) because I prefer to queue up what I want to download if I'm downloading multiple items from, say, macupdate. And it can speed up your perceived download speed because you can configure them to download multiple items at once. I say perceived because obviously the sum total isn't going to use more bandwidth than what's available to you. However for whatever reason you may desire to not use all your bandwidth for downloading and these download managers can be set to do that. Finally I think these download managers are much better at picking up a paused download than the browsers are.

Although I started using iGetter way back with dial-up I still use today it with 6meg broadband connection.

I use Speed download. I have used it since feb. 2008. I have no complaints against it, except that
it's ftp uploading interface is a bit cumbersome and unintuitive, but I works. Fugu and cyberduck
are much better ftp management programs with lots more features.

An excellent firefox downloader add-on (extension) is DownLoadThemAll. Of course it only works
with firefox, but it's priced right.

Hi, My internet provider is poor at the best of times an I am unable to download any more than 20 to 25 meg of data before it freezes. I would like to know if it possible to download itunes updates and iphone updates through a manager that can resume downloading once the connection is restored.

Cheers

Theoretically, yes 🙂

I guess I should add, there are a some sites that don't permit a download manager to specify a download starting point other than from the beginning. But Apple is not one of them.