How to download files from www (eg: rapidshare, eazyshare) using wxDownloadFast
There are many download softwares available on the Net. What i like most is the wxDownloadFast since it’s free and open source. It was made by wxWindows. From the homepage of wxdownloadfast.sf.net, you could see the features of this softwares:
- 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 (HTTP, FTP, file://). No HTTPS support.
- 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)
It’s available for many platform such as Windows and Linux.
For the Windows Version, you could download it here.
For the Ubuntu Linux version, you could download it here.
Here’s the steps to download files using wxDownloadFast:
- First open wxdownloadfast. the window will looks like this

- Then click the New button on the TOolbar.

- A window with title = Add new download will emerge, enter the url of the file that will be downloaded on the Address textbox. Click Add.
- You could enter multiple URL on by adding more url and click Add again.

Then click OK on the bottom of Add new download window. This window will collapse and you’ll going back to the wxDownloadFast’s main window. And the download process will be started directly.
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