I used to use SpeedDownload and was bummed when they went out of business. Just on a whim I searched around for a replacment tonight while watching a really slow download of Ubuntu and decided to take a chance on this. My main interest was the spliiting the download into multiple segments (or sessions). It tricks the server into thinking they’re 10 different people downloading, thus using more bandwidth. Well let me tell you this thing rocks. I had 8 more minutes in my Safari download (was originally 40 minutes) and just for fun used the same link and started it downloading in this program and it took all of 5 minutes!! It actually finished BEFORE the one that was 30 minutes into the download still. So, from this very small limited test, I would say this thing is what I was missing. Just think of all the time something like this can save if you have a good internet connection (I have 100 mbps down). Well worth the price, even if I had paid for all of the pro features. But I really only wanted the one so it was even cheaper. This is probably not as full featured and detailed as SpeedDownload was. That seemed almost more of a advanced user program, but this is simpler to use for most I’m sure. Stop reading this review and download it now!