-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On Sun, 7 May 2017 23:37:53 +0530 Ashok Inder <ashoka.inder....@gmail.com> wrote:
>For past 7 years, Linux does not have a single descent Download Manager. >Its totally possible that none of you may have faced this issue ever but >its a somewhat major issue for me... > >First with WGET, I'm not at all comfortable with cli, the other being >that even with effort when I try to use wget, the file most of the time >downloaded ends up a corrupt file. For eg: I remember back in 2010, >downloading a 5-6mb of a single file (mp3 to be precise), the wget ended >up downloading packet of total size with 11mb and obviously corrupt file >or yesterday downloading a office file of 90 mb were wget downloaded a >total of 105mb file and again a corrupt file. Downloading complex things >from internet via wget is not even my cup of tea. It so much difficult >at my level of technology understanding. > >I had this issue in Ubuntu, Mint, Opensuse, Fedora and now on Debian as >well. I had used from mobile internet, LAN to WiFi and issue remained >the same. > >I even wonder why the hell I even face this problem. Given that most of >the web services I use in the background use wget somewhere. Even a >simple browsing on Windows system, the browser's first request is via >wget in the backend. The world runs on wget, my android runs wget >services for all downloading and uploading in the backend and infact I'm >confident that play store apps are updated via wget service only...then >why I face such a weird wget issue which is so successful elsewhere and >for all. > >Most GUI download manager (which I call WGET frontend software's) while >eases my download hassle from cli, ends up with same set of problem as >wget. Majority of the time corrupt file are getting downloaded. And its >not just corrupt download, I don't have much control over the file and >bandwidth that I'm downloading. > >I ended up using Free Download Manager on windows to download most of my >file in the end. > >Torrent is not an issue, it works even better than windows in Linux with >better security (encrypted and blocking bad ip range which is not that >easy to do in windows). > >I'm a heavy downloader. I download a lot of file of miscellaneous >category and nature. > >Browser download managers are bad, there resume option is the worst >thing were I have to end-up re-downloading the file and moreover it >blocks my ability to control bandwidth and for many other reason, I >totally dislike browser (with addon) download manager. > >This is one area where I have totally failed with Linux. > > >A point to make, in previous days, Internet in India used to be quite >erratic behaved network, the speed was like a half AC wave cycle, rising >from 0 to X speed and then falling down and going back to 0. Windows and >its download manager used to easily work with such erratic internet, but >in linux it was not. Today its quite well managed internet service in >India the erratic behavior is under acceptable level but still wget >issue for me remains the same. > >Regards, >Ashok Kumar > I find Download Manager extension in Firefox works very well for me. - -- Charlie Kravetz Linux Registered User Number 425914 [http://linuxcounter.net/user/425914.html] Never let anyone steal your DREAM. [http://keepingdreams.com] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQEzBAEBCAAdFiEEG5QK93YKrQMH22ZTiq6LjqbJ0IAFAlkPaOEACgkQiq6LjqbJ 0IBhmwf9EiI57EcQWwh38Hd/oKk9FbN6yRLYfC3deBeVi5EQWHSrek4vNKFP0KyO 5d/CTk3bs915UmkYueniTQlmISVkWdgzGjyZrp6hTOxxtZWkQSHCuwd8yYXiGwiN fxb6GfBnE8PiAREusjrAeULWf1N/mdb7iPlZ6xuFsYzAs3EVI3K+BpyDzMLWFukM mJGsVmjFs2efWUn3tLBRDQYCyj2tY/VHPrsb5O71J1XoxEViXnl1x74ehsFsh+Pa bR5MIup/kMkjcB/FrcECYLYDwpKGiXb6aODjyH4M2Rn5tV9xqTc58KBLSUAe00CT iLY0l3/g91NjuQsvvFWgWiEKhW5o8A== =Hqr0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
