Best Download Accelerator for Linux, Windows or Mac OS X
We all know that windows has a lot of Download accelerators for it, but same is not true with Linux and Mac , although their are alternatives like Kget and wget in Linux , but still they are not that effective as they can not be integrated with Firefox, do not have multi-threaded download feature etc.
wxDownload Fast (also known as wxDFast) is an open source download manager. It is multi-platform and builds on Windows(2k,XP), Linux and Mac OS X. Besides that, it is a multi-threaded download manager. This means that it can split a file into several pieces and download the pieces simultaneously.
Features
- Faster downloads (with Segmented/Multi-threaded/Accelerated transfers)
- Download resuming (Pause and restart where you stopped)
- Download scheduling
- Organizes files you have already downloaded
- View server messages.
- Available in multiple languages and easily translated. Now available in Portuguese [Brazil], Spanish, English, German, Russian, Hungarian, Armenian, Indonesian and Dutch
- Connection to HTTP/FTP servers which require a password
- Calculates the MD5/SHA1 checksum of downloaded files so they can be easily verified
- Metalink support
- Firefox integration through FlashGot
- Can be used as a portable download manager (Windows only)
- Can be used over proxy servers(HTTP proxy support)
Website
http://dfast.sourceforge.net/index.html
Download links for various OS
Windows XP Binary – wxDownloadFast_0.6.0.exe ( ##For Windows)
MD5: ad4af1eb70ea42d2bbae264b1403c79a
Windows XP Binary (portable) – wxDownloadFast_0.6.0_portable.zip
MD5: c8d5de542df1f080db8d3585fafdebcd
Source Code – wxdfast_0.6.0.tar.gz
MD5: 05c2a71cc8f811d1ad5916fce29b7b3a
Debian Sid Binary Package – wxdfast_0.6.0_i386.deb (## for Ubuntu)
MD5: 5a9facc805574b9d3e2314cea0978515
Or add the line "deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable main" to your sources.list and use: apt-get install wxdfast
Ubuntu Edgy i386 Binary Package – wxdfast_0.6.0-1_ubuntu_i386.deb
MD5: 5f5572c221a0eff912ce1e59ed07e7c0
Package created by a user called Mallo Blenne.
Ubuntu Edgy AMD64 Binary Package – wxdfast_0.6.0_amd64.deb
MD5: 83b05adb42bf7526cc91e41e0f48a15b
Package created by a user called John Clark.
