Suggest a nice Download Manager with segmented downloading support

shadyabhi · 2010-08-13 04:30:31

I have so far tried:-

1. DownthemAll with Firefox : Rejected it because it doest work well on faulty connections. Basically, it doesnt have good error handling when the server fails or internet goes offline.. Shows me TEMPORARY ERROR and SERVER ERROR frequently.

2. D4X: Rejected because it gives me segmentation fault so its not reliable.
3. Multiget: Doesnt save the download list automatically and also doesnt support URLs that are larger than 256 character.
4. wxdfast: Segmentation Fault
5. wget: Doesnt have segmented downloading support

Whats next?
I cant use AXEL bcos I do a lot of downloading so I cant rely on individually running each download. I mean there should be some software that has a download queue...

Ashren · 2010-08-13 04:41:00

http://aria2.sourceforge.net/

shadyabhi · 2010-08-13 04:51:24

It doesnt have a download queue..
I mean like I add 10 downloads and it downladas 3 at a time...

anonymous_user · 2010-08-13 05:02:23

Have you looked at Uget?

http://urlget.sourceforge.net/

shadyabhi · 2010-08-13 08:01:45

anonymous_user wrote:

Have you looked at Uget?
http://urlget.sourceforge.net/

Doesnt support segmented downloading...

Hide · 2010-08-13 08:30:19

shadyabhi wrote:

It doesnt have a download queue..
I mean like I add 10 downloads and it downladas 3 at a time...

It does, I use it. Fiddle around with its config file. Aria2 is a really sweet DL manager

zowki · 2010-08-13 14:14:15

Hide wrote:

shadyabhi wrote:
It doesnt have a download queue..
I mean like I add 10 downloads and it downladas 3 at a time...
It does, I use it. Fiddle around with its config file. Aria2 is a really sweet DL manager

You can even integrate Aria2 into Firefox with this flashgot:
http://forums.opensuse.org/english/info … ria2c.html

tavianator · 2010-08-13 14:14:22

shadyabhi wrote:

5. wget: Doesnt have segmented downloading support

wget -c URL?

Trent · 2010-08-13 14:20:16

tavianator wrote:

shadyabhi wrote:
5. wget: Doesnt have segmented downloading support
wget -c URL?

Yeah, that's what I was thinking, unless I'm misunderstanding the meaning of "segmented"

anonymous_user · 2010-08-13 15:24:43

Segmented downloading means downloading a file in multiple parts, possibly from different mirrors. This is useful if the mirror has some bandwidth cap (example: archlinux.org has a cap of 50KB/s) or is just slow.

zowki · 2010-08-13 15:36:29

anonymous_user wrote:

Segmented downloading means downloading a file in multiple parts, possibly from different mirrors. This is useful if the mirror has some bandwidth cap (example: archlinux.org has a cap of 50KB/s) or is just slow.

There's a 50KB/s cap, it was mentioned somewhere in the beginners guide.

Last edited by zowki (2010-08-14 03:36:50)

shadyabhi · 2010-08-15 14:46:17

Guyz, thanks for your reply... But, I actually didnt get a satisfactory download manager from the thread...

But, as I really liked MULTIGET, i just wanted to remove its short comings. So, I changed the source code myself..

The patch solves two issues:-

1. Automatically saves the task list after every event of finishing task.
2. Adds support for URLs that are greater than 256..

If anybody wants the patch, http://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0Bz5PTCm … NDQ4&hl=en

shak · 2010-08-15 19:08:34

I still prefer downthemall , i get great speeds by choosing 10 connections for each file and i can control the queue easily . Aria is great for downloading a small number of files ,

but if i download a big number i can't control the queue .

kevku · 2010-08-16 11:13:20

jdownloader?

shak · 2010-08-16 11:26:17

jdownloader is great for rapidshare but since it depends on java it consumes a lot of ram and cpu .

Last edited by shak (2010-08-16 11:26:32)

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