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2 stars
Version: NetLeech 3.0
"Buggy"
Pros: It's light and clean, which is very important to me. Doesn't bog down your system with stuff you don't want.
Cons: I wanted to like this program, but unfortunately, it's got some bugs and annoyances which after a while made me uninstall it and I'm now looking for other options.
1. When I let the program do several concurrent downloads of the same file (different parts), it would sometimes just restart the download from scratch with no warning or error message. Sometimes this feature would call a file "Finished" when there was a chunk in the middle of the file missing, and there is nothing you can do about that but delete the download and start anew.
2. Problems with adding url's via Internet Explorer. Would not work when password required at the site (rapidshare.com), even if specified in the password manager of the program. (When I add the same link manually, it works)
3. Whenever rapidshare.com went offline for a bit, NetLeech would mess up all added downloads, not being able to "find" the file when the site got back online. Solution: Manually add all downloads again. (I did not try any other sites)
All in all, too buggy for me - and I'm willing to give up a lot to stay with small, neat utils rather than huge programs with features I don't want. In this case though, it just didnt work.
Oh yeah and 4. - it's free but you have to pay if you want to unlock all features.
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