I am really angry right now... I was downloading CentOS (which takes 18 hours to complete on my 512 kb/s connection) and was down to 2 hours remaining when i tried to pause it for a brief period and guess what ? Kget crashed and upon restarting it all my downloaded data was lost....
What's the point of a download manager if it won't let you resume your download ?

Trying to use gwget under GNOME a few months back was a nightmare of it's own kind, d4x is annoying for not allowing you minimize to tray and I also had problems with it (for example a Mepis 6.5 .iso downloaded completely after 6 hours only nowhere to be found...)

So, why is there not a single decent download manager for linux ?

Btw I use mainstream hardware, so it's got to be a software issue alone.

Not saying that no downloads completed properly, but this rate of failure is too high...

wget has never failed me. It restarts just fine. I've also had good experiences with axel if the server doesn't mind you downloading multiple sections simultaneously.

axel rocks ive downloaded many isos, most only took 15-20 minutes.

Could i send wget or axel (since they are console progs) to the tray ? Probably a stupid question, i just have to ask

It's possible with an app that sends stuff to the tray, right ? I used one for d4x, can't remember the name....

Well, wget and axel are both console apps, but if you combine them with screen you can send them to the background.