PDA

View Full Version : Best download manager for ubuntu



sathyastorm
May 11th, 2013, 04:11 PM
i think uget along with flash got serves good if their is any other suggest me...........

cariboo
May 11th, 2013, 06:33 PM
Are download managers even relevant any more?

Primefalcon
May 11th, 2013, 09:48 PM
tbh I usualy just use wget or firefox itself, when I had dial up I used to you managers all the time, not really anymore

GWBouge
May 11th, 2013, 10:20 PM
Are download managers even relevant any more?

Resume on Firefox doesn't always act right with a slow/unstable connection, so unfortunately, yes =o(

For anything that will take a couple hours (700MB or more) but doesn't have a torrent, I use DownThemAll! (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/downthemall/) It started out as a way to mass-download all the links off a page, but it offers queueing and speed limits along with the typical features you'd find in a download manager. I've been using it for the better half of a decade just to pause/resume reliably without any issues.

Primefalcon
May 11th, 2013, 10:49 PM
thats why I use wget it has a good resume

sathyastorm
May 12th, 2013, 02:39 AM
Firefox add-on traps more bandwidth .......were as download managers are optimized for bandwidth....it is also used to download video from youtube as well

Sam Mills
May 12th, 2013, 03:40 AM
Are download managers even relevant any more?
For me, yes. I use aria, a command line DM. It resumes broken downloads like a charm, and searches for multiple download links to speed things up.

sathyastorm
May 12th, 2013, 03:41 AM
use uget it has aria plugin in it.......use aria 2 in gui pal........

Sam Mills
May 12th, 2013, 03:48 AM
use uget it has aria plugin in it.......use aria 2 in gui pal........
I'm happy using aria2 in the terminal. Doesn't get much easier. Just type in aria2c then paste the link address after. Thanks anyway.