On Sun 07 May 2017 at 23:37:53 +0530, Ashok Inder 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...
It is indeed totally possible not to have experienced the problems you have met. Issuing challenges will only get you on a hiding to nothing, > 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. 2010, eh? It was a bad year for not getting uncorrupted files. Something to do with solar flares. > > 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. A plethora of problems after trying so hard. > 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. That is the essential question. An example, rather than generalistions, from you would help. Just one; something that could be tested. > 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. It's a hard life. > I ended up using Free Download Manager on windows to download most of my > file in the end. Stick to it. > 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. Wink, wink. > 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. So it seems. You are alone. > 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. Thank you for the history.
