Downloader tools can be quite unpleasent. It is often a choice between overcomplicated adware, or you have to use the vendors software that may not be very good. Downloading large files should be as simple and reliable as small files for the user. Perhaps Metalink[1] support would help?
There's plenty of uncomplicated, adfree software. For Windows, I'm partial to Miniget (which supports both HTTP and Bittorrent): http://www.miniget001.com/
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Downloader tools can be quite unpleasent. It is often a choice between overcomplicated adware, or you have to use the vendors software that may not be very good. Downloading large files should be as simple and reliable as small files for the user. Perhaps Metalink[1] support would help?
[1] http://www.metalinker.org/
aria2 is a pretty killer tool, no ad or anything. Just a CLI.
http://aria2.sourceforge.net/
Aria2 is incredible. +1 for it! Should be standard install on everyone's workstation if you need a download manager.
There's plenty of uncomplicated, adfree software. For Windows, I'm partial to Miniget (which supports both HTTP and Bittorrent): http://www.miniget001.com/
Yes. On OS X, I find myself using Leech¹ quite a bit.
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¹ — http://manytricks.com/leech/