Sorry if this has been asked before but while I like FDM it is annoying my wife because when I am downloading it hogs all the bandwidth on out WiFi.
I have tried to reduce the speed (via traffic usage mode) but it seems to ignore it and just keeps on at over a hundred k.
I have the freeware version BTW.
Please help!
Thanks.

What traffic limit is set for the mode you are using?

Options | Settings | Downloads | Network

Thanks, how do I find that out please?

As I said above, Options | Settings | Downloads | Network

P.S. There is no paid version of Free Download Manager.

I have tried to reduce the speed (via traffic usage mode) but it seems to ignore it and just keeps on at over a hundred k.

Thanks but I had already tried to do this but it ignores my change to light mode.
Nor does it seem to respond to the decrease activity when browser in use.
I really need to throttle back the downloading so I can actually get on with some work.
I love this program but everyone else seems to want more speed not less.
I must be missing something....

Here is the same problem. FDM doesn't seem to correspond with the settings to check browser activity. Set it to slowest (98 KB/sec), but the browser is slooooow.

Why doesn't run FDM as smooth as the inbuilt downloader of Firefox?

And: even if you check the browser activity-checkbox and it would work as said, that does not take care of files that are downloaded via eMail (attachments). How to solve that problem?

Guest99 wrote:Here is the same problem. FDM doesn't seem to correspond with the settings to check browser activity. Set it to slowest (98 KB/sec), but the browser is slooooow.

FDM shows transfer in binary kilobytes (aka kibibytes, see http://en.wikipedia/wiki/Kilobyte) while bandwidth is in decimal kilobits per second (kbps, see http://en.wikipedia.org/en/wiki/Data_ra ... per_second)
98 KB/s isn't slow at all. It is about 800 kbps - that is 14 time more than analog modem speed. What is your connection bandwidth?

Guest99 wrote:Why doesn't run FDM as smooth as the inbuilt downloader of Firefox?

FDM was designed to speed up download, not to slow down it. If you want to throttle downloads, you should use "Pause all downloads" button. If Firefox seems to be slow, use Flashblock or Adblock add-ons (limit unneeded download) and think abot Firefox 4 (much faster Javascript engine).

Guest99 wrote:And: even if you check the browser activity-checkbox and it would work as said,

And it works as said. FDM is neither traffic shaper nor bandwidth manager/limiter. FDM can manage only its own bandwidth and does it well, if it is configured well, of course.

Guest99 wrote:that does not take care of files that are downloaded via eMail (attachments). How to solve that problem?

Email is the worst way to send files (FTP is the fastest) and webmail is the worst way to manage emails (IMAP client is much better, you need webmail only to create message rules).

And why don't you say anything about your antivirus software or internet security suite? Its misconfiguration is the best way to slow down all the system, including Internet connection.

As you see, you have more than one problem. What exactly problem do you want to solve?