NetAnts

NetAnts
NetAnts
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Developer(s) Hong Yirong (洪以容)
Stable release 1.25 / 25 April 2005; 6 years ago (2005-04-25)
Operating system Windows
Type Download manager
License Freeware
Website www.netants.com

NetAnts (Chinese: 网络蚂蚁) is a multilingual closed source software download manager, one of the earliest download manager with handling of different connections and pausing the download functions.

Contents

Features and Problems

Features and problems with NetAnts v1.25

Common features

  • Download resuming
  • Download splitting/accelerating (download many portions at once to speed up downloading (all from the same server)
  • Scheduling
  • Automatic Dialing

Less Common features

  • Follows Some redirects
  • Allows Spoofing the user Agent
  • Bandwidth limiting
  • Has an API

Unique Features

  • Ability to fix corrupt ZIP archives

Netants included a CRC check for Zip archives, if it fails after download, the program redownloads the broken parts of the file.

Criticism

  • It does not natively work with Mozilla Firefox. (The Firefox extension, FlashGot enables Firefox integration.)
  • It does not download from servers that do not tell the size of the file (see the FAQ on the software page relating to "The actual size of downloading file is unknown").
  • It has not been updated in years.
  • It includes spyware
  • Downloading using mirrors is not supported.
  • It does not support Windows Vista.

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