On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 08:44:07PM -0800, nate wrote: > Trey Sizemore said: > > Looking for a good download accelerator (similar to...Download > > Accelerator...). What are some of the favorites out there. > > is download accelerator one of those tools that tricks users into > thinking their connection is faster? no, it actually does make stuff go faster. it's a pretty nice utility, if you find yourself stuck on a win32 box. it does multiple gets in parallel, and it also has support for downloading the same file from multiple mirrors as well to help eliminate bottlenecks. > I use wget for most of my downloading needs, runs on the console > so I can fire it within screen so it's in the background, and it > supports auto resume, mirroring, and tons more features. wget is a gold standard as far as that goes. however, some sites do alter their content if they see that you're getting stuff from them with wget. of course, you can always get by that by specifying your own user-agent string (cmdline option, naturally). also, a program i've recently started using is puf (apt-get install puf), which does something similar with parallel fetching, though i don't think there's any browser plugin support for it. sean
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