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NetAnts is a closed source software download manager.

Contents

1 Features and Problems

1.1 Common features
1.2 Less Common features
1.3 Unique Features

2 Annoyances
3 External link

Features and Problems

Features and problems with NetAnts v1.25

Common features

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

Less Common features

Follows Some redirects
Allows Spoofing the user Agent
Bandwidth limiting

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.

Annoyances

Does not work with Mozilla Firefox.
It will not download from servers that won't tell the size of the file (See the FAQ on the netants page relating to "The actual size of downloading file is unknown").
NetAnts Hasn't been updated in years.
Includes Spyware (http://cexx.org/dummies.htm has help for that).
Downloading using mirrors is not supported.

External link

[Official Webpage]

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