Free Download Manager

Tonight I needed to download several software packages.  Among them the largest one was OpenOffice, which is about 94 MB.  At first I thought that wouldn't pose any problem as I have ADSL at home, so perhaps it would take only one hour.

Wrong!  For some reason all the speed I could get was about 5 Kb/s.  Ridiculous.  I tried several different mirrors, and even download from FTP servers, but it was the same.  Then I remembered I also have in my computer Free Download Manager and thought I'd give it a try.

Wow did it make a huge difference!  Since I got ADSL at home, I think I've rarely ever used again that program because as is, the download is already quite fast.  But this time that program made a wonderful difference.  Most of the time the download speed was about 180 Kb/s.