Free Download Manager 3.8.1173 Final

[anuraag]

<img src="http://www.nsanedown.com/images/logos/FDM.png" class="logo" alt="Free Download Manager" title="Free Download Manager" />Free Download Manager is a powerful, easy-to-use and absolutely free download accelerator and manager. Moreover, FDM is 100% safe, open-source software distributed under GPL license. FDM is a light-weight, powerful and easy-to-use application. This software product is well-known for its intuitive and user-friendly interface. FDM can function as a site manager, accelerator, site explorer and scheduler. FDM can resume broken downloads. So you needn't start the downloading process from the very beginning after casual interruption. You can resume unfinished download from the moment when it was interrupted. Also this program warns you if resuming isn't supported by the servers and allow you to make a decision. So with FDM you save your time and your money.

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[mosaji]

Have been using idm for almost seven years now

Wondering whether fdm is better than idm???

[rapcoolink]

Have been using idm for almost seven years now

Wondering whether fdm is better than idm???

I have the same question and plus if FDM support the latest browser? I am using FF9 ... Thanks for the info.

[mires]

For me, FDM is better and free of course. And yes, he support FF9...

[LeetPirate]

What I like about FDM is that it can exit when you click the X, unlike IDM. IDM doesn't even give you a choice, you just have to leave it running always because there is no convenient way to close it.

In terms of speed all these download managers work similar and the speed you get depends on your network connections. The only thing that distunguishes one download manager from another is the user interface and features.

I've added FDM Lite because I know that many people would prefer a minimalist download manager.

FDM Lite version requires less size and lacks some functions (BitTorrent support, video conversion and upload manager) that can be downloaded and installed as plugins later.

[ck_kent]

@LeetPirate: Can FDM Lite download embedded flash video on a website, not just Youtube? I'm currently using Flashget with Flashgot addon for Firefox. I tried IDM before also and didn't like it for the same reason you mentioned.

Thanks.

[LeetPirate]

Yea FDM v3.8 comes with a flash video downloader. I don't use it though, in fact I disabled all the FDM integration options and I use flashgot to bring up the save window where I can choose to call FDM.

[DKT27]

@LeetPirate: There's an option in IDM > View > IDM Tray Icon > Don't Show. Did you ever try it? :)

[Miroglu]

Thanks for the update

[LeetPirate]

@LeetPirate: There's an option in IDM > View > IDM Tray Icon > Don't Show. Did you ever try it? :)

I did but that just hid the icon, IDM was still running. FDM is not loaded at all because I disabled all integration options, it only loads if flashgot calls it.

[DKT27]

I see.

If Marik would have been here, we could have shoot a email to the friendly dev. :tooth:

[SacredCultivator]

I don't use FlashGot, but the whole IDM always running does bug me a bit. But I assume when you RightClick and then Exit from the System Tray, that does Exit the program right?

I know IDM has that feature but only under the Scheduler, not as a default.

[anuraag]

IDM always runs a process in background.

[SacredCultivator]

So if I used FDM, and quit it, there is not process running in the background?

Again this is going by if I don't use FlashGo/et for FF

[House_maniac]

i compared speed tried both idm just beat fdm in term of speed :) i downloaded same file from my rapidleech server!

[DKT27]

i compared speed tried both idm just beat fdm in term of speed :) i downloaded same file from my rapidleech server!

That's true. I tried FDM long time ago, before that I used DAP. But IDM is faster than them all. :)

[princenarwal]

i compared speed tried both idm just beat fdm in term of speed :) i downloaded same file from my rapidleech server!

That's true. I tried FDM long time ago, before that I used DAP. But IDM is faster than them all. :)

thanx for this guys,

i was using FDM, orbit and flash get( a year ago)

found that flash get is always sending some data to a china ip address so eating bandwidth. many times making the net to crawl. so after that start using FDM, mainly due to simple interface, torrent support and video preview option.

then i found Orbit and due to its ability to add mirrors i start using it with FDM (in FDM we can opt. to search for mirrors automatically and also add them manually but it don't start using them).

it was untill today.

after reading this i downloaded IDM, compared it with FDM and found IDM better than FDM in term of speed and time to start download.

In comparison to orbit i found IDM and Orbit on same step, but i think orbit is better when you have many mirrors to download a single file. it can be helpful on a high speed connection.

so from now on i am going to use IDM+Orbit+utorrent.

utorrent due to its small size. if any better client exists please post and plz. explain what is bit guard?

thanx

[DKT27]

A bit off topic, but anyway. IDM also uses mirrors when downloading a file (by default, 8 mirrors). :) That is, until website specifically disallows it, in that case Orbit can't use mirrors either.

I won't recommend using IDM and Orbit together, due to both integrating in browser that may create problems, but if it works fine then it's ok. ^_^

uTorrent is the most recommended torrent client. ;)

[House_maniac]

i compared speed tried both idm just beat fdm in term of speed :) i downloaded same file from my rapidleech server!

That's true. I tried FDM long time ago, before that I used DAP. But IDM is faster than them all. :)

thanx for this guys,

i was using FDM, orbit and flash get( a year ago)

found that flash get is always sending some data to a china ip address so eating bandwidth. many times making the net to crawl. so after that start using FDM, mainly due to simple interface, torrent support and video preview option.

then i found Orbit and due to its ability to add mirrors i start using it with FDM (in FDM we can opt. to search for mirrors automatically and also add them manually but it don't start using them).

it was untill today.

after reading this i downloaded IDM, compared it with FDM and found IDM better than FDM in term of speed and time to start download.

In comparison to orbit i found IDM and Orbit on same step, but i think orbit is better when you have many mirrors to download a single file. it can be helpful on a high speed connection.

so from now on i am going to use IDM+Orbit+utorrent.

utorrent due to its small size. if any better client exists please post and plz. explain what is bit guard?

thanx

hi there can you make an screenshot downloading a file with idm and same file with orbit? i use 16 mirrors with idm

[princenarwal]

i compared speed tried both idm just beat fdm in term of speed :) i downloaded same file from my rapidleech server!

That's true. I tried FDM long time ago, before that I used DAP. But IDM is faster than them all. :)

thanx for this guys,

i was using FDM, orbit and flash get( a year ago)

found that flash get is always sending some data to a china ip address so eating bandwidth. many times making the net to crawl. so after that start using FDM, mainly due to simple interface, torrent support and video preview option.

then i found Orbit and due to its ability to add mirrors i start using it with FDM (in FDM we can opt. to search for mirrors automatically and also add them manually but it don't start using them).

it was untill today.

after reading this i downloaded IDM, compared it with FDM and found IDM better than FDM in term of speed and time to start download.

In comparison to orbit i found IDM and Orbit on same step, but i think orbit is better when you have many mirrors to download a single file. it can be helpful on a high speed connection.

so from now on i am going to use IDM+Orbit+utorrent.

utorrent due to its small size. if any better client exists please post and plz. explain what is bit guard?

thanx

hi there can you make an screenshot downloading a file with idm and same file with orbit? i use 16 mirrors with idm

thanx guys,

but i think in IDM the 8 are parts of a file from same web url. But in orbit the priority is that we can download a single file from many urls with many parts from a single url. e.g

"Twilight-Hindi-BRRip-Deadman-1.avi " exists on various sites

so if we add the download in IDM it will be downloading from a single url with 8 parts(default).

but if we add the download in orbit and in download properties add the other urls as mirrors then it will be downloading from many urls with with max. 8 parts per url. so if one url is down or not available it will continue downloading from others.

In FDM their is option for adding mirrors but it don't download from them just some speed options are displayed so that is of no use.

as for screenshot, i am new to forums so don't find a option to add a screenshot. but you may try orbit.

thanx.

[House_maniac]

i compared speed tried both idm just beat fdm in term of speed :) i downloaded same file from my rapidleech server!

That's true. I tried FDM long time ago, before that I used DAP. But IDM is faster than them all. :)

thanx for this guys,

i was using FDM, orbit and flash get( a year ago)

found that flash get is always sending some data to a china ip address so eating bandwidth. many times making the net to crawl. so after that start using FDM, mainly due to simple interface, torrent support and video preview option.

then i found Orbit and due to its ability to add mirrors i start using it with FDM (in FDM we can opt. to search for mirrors automatically and also add them manually but it don't start using them).

it was untill today.

after reading this i downloaded IDM, compared it with FDM and found IDM better than FDM in term of speed and time to start download.

In comparison to orbit i found IDM and Orbit on same step, but i think orbit is better when you have many mirrors to download a single file. it can be helpful on a high speed connection.

so from now on i am going to use IDM+Orbit+utorrent.

utorrent due to its small size. if any better client exists please post and plz. explain what is bit guard?

thanx

hi there can you make an screenshot downloading a file with idm and same file with orbit? i use 16 mirrors with idm

thanx guys,

but i think in IDM the 8 are parts of a file from same web url. But in orbit the priority is that we can download a single file from many urls with many parts from a single url. e.g

"Twilight-Hindi-BRRip-Deadman-1.avi " exists on

Site: http://pastebin.com

Sharecode: /DmXhgjqM ^[?]

so if we add the download in IDM it will be downloading from a single url with 8 parts(default).

but if we add the download in orbit and in download properties add the other urls as mirrors then it will be downloading from many urls with with max. 8 parts per url. so if one url is down or not available it will continue downloading from others.

In FDM their is option for adding mirrors but it don't download from them just some speed options are displayed so that is of no use.

as for screenshot, i am new to forums so don't find a option to add a screenshot. but you may try orbit.

thanx.

thanks for the answer you can use this software http://screensnapr.com/ to make screenshot and just upload it to an imghost like imgur or just paste the link here :)

[LeetPirate]

You guys are making a mountain out of a grain of sand. All download managers work the same way, they split a download into parts and use concurrent connections to download it faster. For example if you split it into 4 parts the download manager spoofs the same file and connects to the server and pretends it is downloading the same file 4 times except that it will ask the server to continue the retrieval from an offset equal to the length of the local part file that was calculated prior to the split. They all use some variation of wget -c except the download manager precalculates the offset and knows exactly where it wants to split the file and knows how to combine the pieces at the end.

It's not magic and if configured exactly the same then all download managers will result in the same download speed. Any discreprency you happen to notice while trying various download managers could be the result of many external parameters none of which you have any control over so any results of such an experiment are due to random occurances and don't mean anything unless you have statistically sound empirical evidence. You cannot determine the routing path of your internet packets, you also cannot determine the load on the current server that you are downloading a file from, most big download sites use load balancing so you have no idea if you download a file twice from the same site if it is being served by the same server or network port as your previous tries.

Mirrors can't help you unless the server can provide a matching hash to confirm that the file is indeed similar. A common misconception is that more parts means more speed, this is inadequate by itself and therefore incorrect. At a certain point the tcp overhead to payload ratio becomes inefficient and your download will actually be slower despite it sucking all your bandwidth. Don't get fooled into thinking you need more parts and your download will magically become turbocharged. First of all it depends on the server, sometimes servers cap download limits to 250Kbps per session which means that if your internet speed is 1000Kbps then you only need 4 parts to max your download speed. if I download a file from Microsoft it usually only requires 2 parts to max my internet speed. I configure every download manager I've used to create 4 parts at most and they all max my internet connection.

The best way is to use the least number of parts required to max your internet connection. Opening more connections means allocating more of your internet bandwidth to tcp overhead and less bandwidth remains for the actual payload. It's science and math, not magic or superstition. If you know what your bandwidth should be, then configure your download manager to open a low number of parts, start with 2 for < 1Mbps connections, and if your download speed is not going up to the value you expect then manually increment the number of parts until your bandwidth is maxed out.