This is the download manager that impressed me a lot. Downpoint is that it hard to use commandline.ĭownload : Through you package manager. Not multi-threaded, but suprisingly it outdoes wget for its speed. But the interface is a bit buggy and doesn’t work quite well in Gnome 3ĭownload : Through you packange manager #4 curlĪ download manager based on the libcurl library.
Much alike Free Download Manager in Windows. Also as shown in the picture above, it can display a visual representation of the multi-threaded download progress. What I love about it is its wonderful GUI and classification of various downloads based on file type. One of it most advanced and useful features is that you can download all the files of an website using a single command in wget.ĭownload : Comes pre-installed in most distros. It is at this spot because it doesn’t support multi-threading yet. So it would be wise to keep it installed in your PC. There are cases when other download managers fail, but wget succeeds in downloading it. So its actually the most trustworthy download manager you can get.
Non-interactive because once you issue a command to it to download some stuff, it keeps on trying to download the file until full of it is retrieved, even if retrieval is broken in the middle. This is one of the best non-interactive and powerful downloaders ever created in the Linux world. Website : Download : Thorough your package manager. Also it can be easily integrated into you package management application such as yum or pacman. Some best features of it is that you can download torrents from bittorent protocool using it.
In spite of being an advanced software with multi-threading support, it fails to download things fast. This is a download manager that dissapointed me a lot.
Hence this software is at number 8 in rankings.ĭownload : In most distros can be installed through your package manager. Not a download accelerator, but its best feature is that it can integrate with the Konqueror browser and make your downloads easier.During my test, I faced several problems like downloads getting stalled and being paused sometimes, also things such as download speed, time remaining etc are not accurate. Kget is a download manager that is available from the kdenetwork group. I purposely used a slow connection because ratings will be more accurate in it as download acceleration is more observeable. I used a wireless dialup (GPRS-EDGE) for carrying out this test. Also this ratings are based on a rough calculation which is dependent on my ISP. Note : For some reason I couldn’t compile the Download4X (d4x) download manager, also it seems that the software is not maintained anymore hence it is out of this list. The list is arranged in descending order, with the worst at the first and the best at the last. Note that all of them support resuming of downloads. Single threaded and multi-threaded, interactive and non-interactive, command line and GUI, I have rated them based on the boost of speed using a calculation algorithm given below and created the following list of eight best download managers available.
In Linux platform too, there are various download accelerators which do the same task.
In Windows platform, there are a lot of download managers and accelerators available that gives you boosts in speed, which otherwise through normal download will take a lot of time. When it comes to downloading stuff from the Internet, all of us want it to be fast so that we can save our time. Also I have rated them on the basis of speed of download and other features.
This post lists the best download managers and accelerators available for Linux, both command line and GUI.