Hi,

I stubbled across FDM while looking for an application that support downloads to another computer. I haven't used FDM much yet, and I have read about the support to access FDM across the internet on another computer, which would partially meet my needs, however it is not quite what I was after.

I have a home server (Media Centre) that is always on, however I do most of my work from my notebook on the same network. As I find programs, videos, etc to download while browsing on my notebook, I would like from my notebook IE session to be able to select to download the link on my home server (i.e. actually running the download on the Server). This is so that:
a) I can disconnect my notebook at any time
b) The download can be queued, and then downloaded in off peak hours (see separate feature suggestion below)
c) For the case of movies, the file is downloaded straight on to my media center.

Ideally, I would invisage some sort of brower integration within IE (or Firefox) where I could select "Save Target using another computer >" which would then have a submenu of any computers I have setup (would need initial authorisation). Each target computer may then have sub options, for example to download immediately or submit to download off peak (which is a pre-setup schedule).

regards,
Adam

This would be a realy cool feature.
With the new Windows Home Server, i think many ohter users would be happy to something like to for downloads that take >1h

A Client/Server-Infrastructure would do that.
Client is a GUI ... client talks via tcp/ip with the server
Server is a Windows Service

For normal installation, the client simply would connect to localhost.


Anybody knows about a client/server download manager?

Getright does something like this, but isn't perfect.

This feature is exactly what I am looking for:

1. A right click option to send a download to another pc (for me, just on my home network, not really over the internet).

2. A proper web page management interface (something like the one in utorrent), with full control over the list of downloads - to add, remove, start, stop, schedule etc individual downloads.

Exactly what I was looking for too. I have the same config at home: laptop for surfing, always-on server that is always on and is already managing my torrent downloads. This feature would be soooo cool!!!