Hi, I'm an idiot! I totally forgot about aria2. Yes, it's a great download manager and it's very fast. It supports downloading from multiple http sites and multiple connections to one server. I haven't tried it for torrents but I'm sure it will work very well. the only thing I don't like is that it doesn't preserve time stamps of downloaded files like wget does. It also supports metalink, a fairly obscure protocol which allows downloading from many mirrors at once and gets very fast speeds. The reason why I suggested the Gentoo archives is that I also had problems with finding a client but it was on Cygwin. The version of Python was old and I didn't feel like upgrading. I noticed that Gentoo seemed to have a lot more and newer versions than Debian. I'm not sure why Debian never upgraded the BitTorrent client. I do remember something about them going Windows only and attempting to charge. Some pro-Windows company gave them some large amount of money to work with, apparently on the condition that they would abandon other operating systems. Look at Slashdot or one of the tech news sites for more details, but I do remember something about a million dollar grant for development. Gregory Nowak wrote: > I'm currently looking at aria2. It seems to support both trackerless > torrents, and ipv6. I'll see if I'm ok with how it works I guess. >
