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Sutur
January 3rd, 2008, 11:58 PM
Here is the poll I said I was posting.

Hope it helps someone - even me :-)

julian67
January 5th, 2008, 10:22 AM
I sometimes use aria2c (the cli tool) as it can simultaneously download the same file from ftp and http and use many connections. But mostly nothing beats plain old wget -c and an md5sum check.

Sutur
January 5th, 2008, 12:16 PM
I sometimes use aria2c (the cli tool) as it can simultaneously download the same file from ftp and http and use many connections. But mostly nothing beats plain old wget -c and an md5sum check.

wget!!
I knew I'd forgotten a big one. Oh well, gwget is only a front-end after all :-)

insane_alien
January 5th, 2008, 12:24 PM
wget and gwget.

julian67
January 5th, 2008, 12:26 PM
wget!!
I knew I'd forgotten a big one. Oh well, gwget is only a front-end after all :-)

The big one!

Sukarn
January 5th, 2008, 12:33 PM
wget!!
I knew I'd forgotten a big one. Oh well, gwget is only a front-end after all :-)

How did you manage to forget wget? Its what I use to manage most of my downloads and use in most of my scripts.

For metalinks I use aria2c.
For torrents I use any of rtorrent (if I'm going away or to control through ssh), deluge (if the torrent will be running when I'm close to the comp), or transmission (if deluge fails).

new2*buntu
January 5th, 2008, 02:41 PM
I use the Iceweasel built in manager, since I don't download much. And for the rare Linux distro torrent that I come across, I have transmission.

dedmonds
January 27th, 2008, 05:57 AM
wget (almost exclusively)

Kingsley
January 27th, 2008, 06:00 AM
I occasionally use a Firefox extension called DownThemAll. It's really good for mass downloading videos, sound files, or images on a web page.

arsenic23
January 27th, 2008, 06:09 AM
Another vote for wget .

Christmas
January 27th, 2008, 06:17 AM
I use KGet and with its Konqueror integration it's just great.

FuturePilot
January 27th, 2008, 06:46 AM
d4x :guitar:

init1
January 27th, 2008, 08:06 AM
I just use the default download manager for Iceweasel.

unoodles
January 30th, 2008, 07:41 PM
axel, usually 600 - 700 kb/s

dgray_from_dc
January 30th, 2008, 07:44 PM
kget, for the KDE integration. Though I've not tried anything else.