Thursday, February 16, 2006

Suggestions for FDM

I've been using FDM for a few weeks now and I have a few suggestions for Free Download Manager...

(1) There are 3 levels of network load - high, medium, and low. It would be nice if these could be the default but have other user-defined possibilities as well. I know I can alter these 3 as I wish, but I end up altering them all the time depending on the load on the shared connection I have.

(2) Right now scheduling is per download. Wouldn't it be nice if scheduling could also be for settings of network load? So I'm working late and start a download on maximum speed but I know my wife is going start surfing at 7:30am -- I schedule it to go to low at that point so she won't be annoyed by how slow things are going. Or I'm going to bed early and have a big download going. As long as my neighbor is up I don't want to annoy him (we are legitimately sharing the connection - ISP knows about it) so I go at very slow speed, but at midnight I'd like to it up to maximum speed.

More suggestions later...

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