>>You sure? I got the same (new) download manager on Vista and XP.
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>Apparently not judging from what I'm hearing here. Here in my office all the Vista machines have the new manager, but the lone XP machine has the old one (and I'm using it do download now).
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>Being out here just left of the middle of nowhere, we have to consider ourselves lucky to have wireless sort-of-broadband. We'll see cable and/or DSL sometime after the end of time. The DL manager is guesstimating around 13 hours for this to finish.

If all you have is "wireless sort-of-broadband" your ISP might impose usage restrictions, either for your account specifically if you exceed daily service limits, or maybe globally if what you're doing looks like a bandwidth hog (e.g. torrents). Traffic shaping at its finest. OTOH, it may be the only way your ISP can survive if they don't have a fat pipe.