Advanced Properties Dialog
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To open the Advanced Properties dialog box click the Advanced button in the Add download or Create downloads dialogs.  
 
1.   At the Connection tab of it you can:  
·Specify the Pause between the connection attempts, Maximal number of attempts. and Timeout for them.  
·For faster downloading FDM splits files into several sections. If needed, you can specify the Minimal size of each section and the Maximal number of sections.  
·To achieve better cooperation between FDM and other programs or between several downloads you can Limit traffic for the download. If you need faster download you can check Ignore all restrictions checkbox.  
2.At the Protocol tab you can:  
·Specify how FDM will identify itself on server;  
·Wether FDM should work via HTTP 1.1 protocol and use Cookies;  
·Wether FDM should use Active or Passive mode for FTP servers. Please note that passive mode is more secure though slower than active.  
·Specify Transfer mode for downloading: Binary, ASCII or ASCII for files with specific extensions.  
3.At the Proxy tab you can tell FDM to Get proxy settings from Internet Explorer or specify it manually or choose not to use proxy at all.  
4.At the Miscellaneous tab you can change parameters related to how FDM manages downloaded files: what it should do if the file exists on your hard disk, wether it should reserve disk space for file, add extra extension to filename and create extension for files without one. You can also specify the program behaviour depending on server: changing of file size or refusing to support restarting downloads.