Favourite ftp clients and download managers

Just interested in what everyone is using to get their daily download fix. I'm a big fan of commandline based apps so my favourite ftp client would simply be lftp. One feature I'm missing is the ability to resume partially downloaded transfers though.

And my favourite download manager at the moment would be Opera's built in one. Strangly far from my cli preference but I just really like its speed and ability to resume downloads at any time. I absolutely want to like wget better but I just can't without the resume feature.

What's all of your preferences and I do hope this thread will convince me to change mine. :D

FTP: depends... Most of the time I use Fillezilla but sometimes when there isn't filezilla around, i just use the FTP-command-line.

I also use Opera as my default download manager, It does what it does. Downloading a file. ;-)

ftp client : filezilla Download manager : of course jdownloader : )

I usually use Nautilus for FTP, but since gvfs was introduced it brought with it at least one FTP regression: Is the folder invisible? Then it doesn't exist. I used to do a great deal more work via FTP but now I've found it easier to RDP into my production environment when I want to push something live. (Hmm, maybe this is safer, now that I think about it. But still... *grumble grumble*)

Anyway, whatever I can't get into via Nautilus, I use gFTP to connect to. gFTP is effective when used in quick bursts, but as far as I'm aware of, it doesn't do anything to keep its connection alive. In that respect, I miss SmartFTP from Windows, which I couldn't get working in wine, but did try out in VirtualBox recently.

I don't use a download manager other than what's built into Firefox. The biggest files I download are distro ISO images, and either they download within 20 minutes or I torrent them.

If I know what I want (and where I can find it) I use vanilla ftp or wget. If I need to hunt around a site I use Nautilus. Do a lot of torrenting (is that a word?) too, using ktorrent.

When I'm doing serious work I use Filezilla, but if it's a quick upload or download I'll just use the command line "ftp".

As for download managers I like D4x

ftp: Filezilla or Fireftp (for firefox) downloads: DownThemAll! (for firefox) <--awesome options for batch downloading

gftp and aria

That being said, I almost never use a download manager. I just use firefox (with downloadstatusbar extention).

Metallion said: I absolutely want to like wget better but I just can't without the resume feature.

wget does have a resume feature, though: -c or --continue. :)

For FTP I use FireFTP in Firefox and I don't use a download manager. I don't really do any major downloading.

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There is only one I use and that's Filezilla because I never had any problems with it. . .

FTP: FileZilla Download Manager: I use Free Download Manager for windows and wish there was a linux version :(.

So for Linux I just use Firefox's download built in dl manager.

I'm a fan of lftp.

Metallion said: I'm a big fan of commandline based apps so my favourite ftp client would simply be lftp. One feature I'm missing is the ability to resume partially downloaded transfers though.

Try ``` get -c foo

filezilla and wget... to the max.

For downloads I use the DownThemAll Firefox extension for most things. If it's something really big I use wget because I trust it to resume properly.

For FTP I use Fire Ftp in Firefox. I *loved* Filezilla back in the Windoze days. I'm glad to hear there is a Linux version available now and I may be switching back!

So both lftp and wget have a resume feature by a simple -c parameter? That's awesome. :D

I was hoping for this thread to direct me to other apps with this feature but this is even better.

BT, I use transmission xD, and for regular downloads I just use the firefox built in one. It has the same resume feature as opera, doesnt it?

I've used filezilla since windows, but just recently started using gFTP. Haven't had any complaints yet.

I don't use a download manager, but I do use the Download Statusbar addon for firefox.

And, for torrents, I've been using Deluge Torrent recently & I'm liking it.

magmon said: BT, I use transmission xD, and for regular downloads I just use the firefox built in one. It has the same resume feature as opera, doesnt it?

Last time I used firefox regularly (which is about a year and a half ago) I don't believe it had this yet. Not sure about now though.

Metallion said: Last time I used firefox regularly (which is about a year and a half ago) I don't believe it had this yet. Not sure about now though.

That feature was introduced in Firefox 3.

wget and filezilla

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Filezilla Firefox w/ Download Statusbar for small adhoc file dowloads. I usually torrent large files.

"I almost never use a download manager"

I don't even know what a download manager is, or what its function would be. Maybe one of you kind people could explain it?

A download manager is a program that usually speeds up downloads, and has the option to pause/resume/stop/remove downloads. It also organizes all your downloads in an easy to read list.

magmon said: A download manager is a program that usually speeds up downloads, and has the option to pause/resume/stop/remove downloads. It also organizes all your downloads in an easy to read list.

Ok. How does it speed up downloads?

It speeds up downloads by making multiple connections to the server. Some download managers can also connect to multiple servers that have the same file.

I've been a long time user of FileZilla on Windows. When I made the switch to Linux, I had a hard time finding a FTP program I liked. FileZilla wasn't a Linux app at the time. I must have tried a half dozen programs. I was even contemplating using WINE to get FileZilla to work.

It's weird. When I was switching to Linux, for the most part I had no trouble finding programs that I liked. Using OOo instead of Microsoft Office... no problem. GIMP instead of Photoshop... I have never looked back. Finding a Linux replacement for the open-source FileZilla... couldn't do it.

Unfortunately, one of my favorite things about FileZilla 2 in Windows didn't make the transition to 3.0 for Windows and Linux. And there is one feature found in the Windows version that isn't in the Linux version. But still, FileZilla is my favorite.

I don't use a download manager other than what is built into Firefox.

List of FTP Clients available for ubuntu

http://www.ubuntugeek.com/list-of-ftp-clients-available-in-ubuntu-linux.html

List of Download Managers available for ubuntu

http://www.ubuntugeek.com/list-of-download-managers-available-in-ubuntu.html

Hope this helps