There are a bunch of them, and I'll happily test each one if necessary, just hoping someone has already come up with one that works. On my fibre connection, download managers make a hell of a difference to the speed. I'm sure my few extra connections won't bother Apple one bit when downloading a 2GB iOS build or7GB of XCode. Jonathan Mosen Mosen Consulting Blindness technology eBooks, tutorials and training http://Mosen.org
> On 24/09/2015, at 7:04 AM, Sabahattin Gucukoglu <listse...@me.com> wrote: > > Can I ask you to reconsider your need for a download manager? Safari already > knows how to resume downloads if the server supports it, and using multiple > connections to retrieve a file or files from a server is both inconsiderate > and unlikely to produce meaningful results with today’s operating systems > (which make efficient use of TCP) assuming that the problem isn’t that the > server is imposing artificial limits per connection which your download > manager could theoretically bypass. About the only cool thing about download > managers like those on Windows was that one could download simultaneously > from mirrors of the same file, which certainly made great use of resources. > > This having been said, I don’t personally know of a graphical download > manager for OS X. You can script a command-line download tool, but that’s > probably not what you’re after (I used GetRight back in the day on Windows > myself). > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
