How to resume broken downloads.

How to resume broken downloads.

In remote locations, some people have to use satellite Internet or dial-up, making downloading large files nearly impossible. When downloading large files, they often time-out or stop all-together. Download management software will actually take care of all your download needs.

When you click a link to download a file, it will launch the download software and keep track of the download itself. The DM software will actually break up the download into small pieces, allowing it to resume broken downloads. I recently had to download a 130mb file and it would always time out around 25%, so I downloaded and download manager. I could actually tweak the setting to resume download after no activity, and also set the number of retries. After letting the download manager do it’s thing while I was at work, it actually was complete when I came home.

Free Download Manager is a free and open source solution for download management. It supports BitTorrents, broken downloads and has numerous other features.

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