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One thing that DownThemAll got right that I am not sure any other downloader I have found does is that if a download is terminated by the server before the repo
by ubercow13 7y ago
One thing that DownThemAll got right that I am not sure any other downloader I have found does is that if a download is terminated by the server before the reported file size of the file had been downloaded, it would see that as a failure and retry. Unreliable servers often terminate the download partway through and it seems most other download mangers, browsers etc. will just leave the truncated file on the disk and report the download as successful, not allowing you to continue from where it got to.
- sjwright 7y agoYes, and I remember really appreciating DownThemAll's quite robust architecture back when I had a 1.5 megabit ADSL connection. But now that I have a 100 megabit connection at home, I'm rarely downloading anything that doesn't finish within 5 minutes. In the exceedingly rare event that a 10GB download fails, it's just not a big deal to start it again. Obviously this doesn't apply to everyone.