Take the 2-minute tour ×  I have never administered anything
offering enough large downloads to warrant considering an
implementation of a 'download manager'. That is, one of those
java or .Net applications that manages a big download from
something like Microsoft's MSDN sites.  As a user, I hate them,
but do any admins run a site that uses one of these and can tell
me what they get you as an administrator? Bandwidth savings
perhaps?  share|improve this question  2 Answers 2  up vote 2
down vote accepted  (Note: The last time I was dealing with this
topic was a couple years ago, so the latest browser versions may
now work differently than I've described)  Another reason
companies (particularly Microsoft) are doing this is because
some downloaded files now exceed 2 gigs. For reference, 2 GB
(2147483648 bytes) is the upper limit of a signed 32-bit
integer. Most browsers, even the latest Firefox and IE, use a
signed 32-bit integer to represent the size of a downloaded
file. When the file size exceeds that number