any good download managers for linux?
 

Hi,

I've been using linux for a long time, however I've never come across good download managers, of the caliber of Flashget, Internet Download Manager, Download Accelerator (all Windows). They allow you to download things a lot faster by setting up multiple threads each of which is downloading a subset of the files.

However in linux, wget & co, do not have this capability that's why they are way slower than the above mentioned download managers. So any download manager in linux that can perform multi-threaded downloads? If not than I plan to build one.

kget is there in kde.
It can satisfy our download needs.

kget is just a frontend to wget! and its a classical download manager NOT a multithreaded one

what do you mean by multi threaded downloading?
kget can simultaniously download more files.

I mean a download manager which can simultaneously download chunks of the SAME file. It's really useful for large files 3gb+, and it a lot more faster than a single instance download a file.

d4x and prozilla (it has a GUI too: prozillagui, but personally prefer the textmode one), both let you choose how many threads you want to start, one to... don't remember, infinite surely not.

also wxdFast, Multiget(flashget clone) and DownThemAll(firefox extension), Aria.
I use d4x and I'm pleased ;)

there is also axel (text based)