wget with multiple connection.
Hello.
How can I set "wget" for download a file with multiple connections? Thank you. |
Why do you need multiple connections, it's not likely to increase your speed?
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I'm not sure that wget can do that -- have you looked at axel instead?
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Using a torrent will allow use of multiple connections and thus increase speed, but as far as I know wget just does a single connection.
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there's a myth of increasing download speeds through "multiple download slots" or some such technobabble.
i think it comes from certain commercial download sites like megaupload etc., that would limit bandwidth per user. some addons/software claimed to be able to circumvent that restriction (and maybe did until the providers circumvented THAT again), but i just don't see how wget has anything to do with it. |
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i'm looking at search results for "download multi" from my package manager, and there's about a dozen AUR packages (all of them unsupported, as AUR packages always are).
i'm reading things like "Xtreme Download Manager is a powerful tool to increase download speed up-to 500%, save videos from video sharing sites and integration with ANY browser." and "A full featured, advanced, multi-threaded, multisegment download manager and accelerator." it all sounds a lot like snake oil to me, but so many coders can't be completely wrong i guess. i will have a closer look. |
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ok, this is the one got the most votes on AUR:
https://www.flareget.com/ no source code. go figure. i now found axel, from the man page: "Axel is a program that downloads a file from a FTP or HTTP server through multiple connection. Each connection downloads its own part of the file." just like i thought, this only makes sense when the provider throttles bandwidth (and is stupid enough to not recognize this trick). |
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I like to use "wget" not "axel" !!!
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https://www.tecmint.com/download-managers-for-linux/
in general look for linux download manager - if interested. wget itself is unable to use multiple connections. If you really want to use wget just do, but there will be only single connections or probably you can try to implement that feature into it. |
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either the feature is there, or it isn't !!! |
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