Download managers and multiconnection downloading
2026-07-10 23:36 UTC
So I’ve had shitty time recently with websites that were late to the party but finally started throttling parallel downloading.
Previously using a download manager like Jdownloader or IDM was the best way to get files when they were too big to survive being transferred with their hash intact. Nexusmods for instants has made sure that stuff will transfer so slow that it breaks.
Video sites are learning how realize when a download is qued and block the actual transfer itself somehow. Youtube breaks its files up into segments and scatters them so you have to stitch them back together.
What are your solutions for downloading now?
Replies (3)
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@cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 2026-07-11 00:29
Yt-dlp is still working fine your youtube downloads. It usually downloads at high speed. Downloading a lot of videos can result in throttling or a temporary IP ban though. I haven’t had any issues with Nexusmods other than it taking forever to download a multi GB file. The files download intact without a download manager.
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@leanleft@lemmy.ml 2026-07-11 03:28
github.com/dessalines/torrent-tube
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@far_university1990@reddthat.com 2026-07-11 08:37
Aria2c for parallel file download and continue. Download using http range header, if that not work aria not help.