Since aria2 was only passingly mentioned, let me list some of its features: - Supports splitting and parallelising downloads. Super handy if you're on a not-so

Since aria2 was only passingly mentioned, let me list some of its features: - Supports splitting and parallelising downloads. Super handy if you're on a not-so-good internet connection. - Supports bittorrent. - Can act as a server and has a really nice XML/JSON RPC interface over HTTP or WebSocket (I have a Chrome plugin that integrates with this pretty nicely). They're not super important features sure but I stick with it because it's typically the fastest tool and I hate waiting.