The shell integration is very good with Internet Explorer. You can set up a profile for every type of proxy server and, when downloading, you may choose which profile should be used or if the download should be done with direct connection to the hosting server. It has support for HTTP, SOCKS 4 and SOCKS 5 proxies. The proxy server support for this download manager is very good. You can set options for everyone very easily in the 'Options' area.

There are a lot of protocols that this manager can use: HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, MMS, MMST, RTSP. I say this is enough, because since Windows XP with Service Pack 2, the number of outgoing TCP connections is limited by the TCP/IP stack to maximum 10, from the number of 65535 which was the number of outgoing connections allowed in the previous versions of Windows. This is enough for most of the download activities since 8 active downloads with 10 download threads means 80 download threads globally. The number of active downloads can be modified from the default 3, up to 8 active downloads. In the 'Default download properties' you can set up the number of maximum download threads, the default download location, the download category and one of the download modes: manual, immediately or scheduled. Another thing that I like is the support for infinite retrying if the download source or the ISP has some issues with the connectivity.

If the download link is active all the time, you will be always able to resume it. It's engine has the support for up to 10 downloading threads. Since that version it has become free with no add supported like it was before.

This is one of my favorite download manager and I like it even more since version 1.72. FlashGet is a powerful download manager that will solve two of the most annoying problems concerning Internet downloads: the speed and the management (finding mirrors, multithread downloading, pause/resume, etc.).

Flashget 3.7