Jack Wallen’s enthusiasm, I think, exceeds his grasp on facts, again <https://www.zdnet.com/article/heres-a-faster-way-to-download-files-on-linux-without-a-web-browser/>.

Yes, wget is a convenient way to download large items, and lots of
items: give it a list of URLs, and it will go away and do them all,
quietly, in the background. It has lots of options for controlling its automatic retry-on-failure feature, too.

But nowhere in the docs do I find mention that it can take advantage
of multiple simultaneous connections to speed up a download.

In the standard Debian repo, I see a separate package called “aria2”,
that does indeed advertise the ability to use multiple simultaneous
connections to speed up downloads <https://aria2.github.io/>.

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On Thu, 12 Jun 2025 01:47:23 -0000 (UTC), John McCue wrote:

But I do remember reading somewhere if using wget, if downloads
are too fast the site will kill the download.

There is a flag to fake random downloads, "--random-wait", to
prevent that logic that could exist on the remote site.

Also --limit-rate, options for waiting before retrying etc. And you can
use an alternative --user-agent (for sites that block the default one),
and even specify a “Referer” [sic] header, for those sites that try to prevent deep-linking.

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Lawrence D'Oliveiro <[email protected]d> wrote:

Jack Wallen?s enthusiasm, I think, exceeds his grasp on facts, again <https://www.zdnet.com/article/heres-a-faster-way-to-download-files-on-linux-without-a-web-browser/>.

<snip>

But nowhere in the docs do I find mention that it can take advantage
of multiple simultaneous connections to speed up a download.

I did not see that either, maybe they are referring to wget2 ?

But I do remember reading somewhere if using wget, if downloads
are too fast the site will kill the download.

There is a flag to fake random downloads, "--random-wait", to
prevent that logic that could exist on the remote site.

In the standard Debian repo, I see a separate package called ?aria2?,
that does indeed advertise the ability to use multiple simultaneous connections to speed up downloads <https://aria2.github.io/>.

I never heard of "aria2", but the repo of my system does have
it:

aria2-1.36.0nb12 - Multi-threaded, multi-protocol, flexible
download accelerator:

Description:

aria2 is a utility for downloading files. It has completely
new design concept from its predecessor, Aria, and is written
from scratch. aria2 has a segmented downloading engine in its
core. It can download one file from multiple URLs or multiple
connections from one URL. This results in very high speed
downloading, much faster than ordinary browsers. This engine
in was implemented in a single-thread model. The architecture
is clean and easy to extend. aria2 currently supports HTTP,
FTP, and BitTorrent. It also supports Metalink version 3.0.
Please visit the project web site at http://aria2.sourceforge.net

Homepage:
https://aria2.github.io/


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On 2025-06-12, John McCue <[email protected]> wrote:

Lawrence D'Oliveiro <[email protected]d> wrote:

Jack Wallen?s enthusiasm, I think, exceeds his grasp on facts, again
<https://www.zdnet.com/article/heres-a-faster-way-to-download-files-on-linux-without-a-web-browser/>.

<snip>

But nowhere in the docs do I find mention that it can take advantage
of multiple simultaneous connections to speed up a download.

I did not see that either, maybe they are referring to wget2 ?

But I do remember reading somewhere if using wget, if downloads
are too fast the site will kill the download.

There is a flag to fake random downloads, "--random-wait", to
prevent that logic that could exist on the remote site.

In the standard Debian repo, I see a separate package called ?aria2?,
that does indeed advertise the ability to use multiple simultaneous
connections to speed up downloads <https://aria2.github.io/>.

I never heard of "aria2", but the repo of my system does have
it:

aria2-1.36.0nb12 - Multi-threaded, multi-protocol, flexible
download accelerator:

Description:

aria2 is a utility for downloading files. It has completely
new design concept from its predecessor, Aria, and is written
from scratch. aria2 has a segmented downloading engine in its
core. It can download one file from multiple URLs or multiple
connections from one URL. This results in very high speed
downloading, much faster than ordinary browsers. This engine
in was implemented in a single-thread model. The architecture
is clean and easy to extend. aria2 currently supports HTTP,
FTP, and BitTorrent. It also supports Metalink version 3.0.
Please visit the project web site at http://aria2.sourceforge.net

Homepage:
https://aria2.github.io/

I use aria2 as my downloader, more specifically, I have an aria2c daemon
that runs in the background, and I can add files to download and
torrents, and they'll just work away in the background. Downloads will continue if you shutdown your computer and restart later.

Aria2 does support downloading from multiple sources, its one of its
selling points. Never seen this in wget.

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On 2025-06-12 12:56, Borax Man wrote:

On 2025-06-12, John McCue <[email protected]> wrote:

Lawrence D'Oliveiro <[email protected]d> wrote:

...

I use aria2 as my downloader, more specifically, I have an aria2c daemon
that runs in the background, and I can add files to download and
torrents, and they'll just work away in the background. Downloads will continue if you shutdown your computer and restart later.

Aria2 does support downloading from multiple sources, its one of its
selling points. Never seen this in wget.

Another is it supports metalinks.

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Lawrence D'Oliveiro <[email protected]d> wrote:

Jack Wallen's enthusiasm, I think, exceeds his grasp on facts, again <https://www.zdnet.com/article/heres-a-faster-way-to-download-files-on-linux-without-a-web-browser/>.

One wonders why you keep reading this clickbait stuff then.

Yes, wget is a convenient way to download large items, and lots of
items: give it a list of URLs, and it will go away and do them all,
quietly, in the background. It has lots of options for controlling its automatic retry-on-failure feature, too.

Far more than that. The recursive mode is extremely useful for
mirroring sections of websites or downloading files in a
directory index. Unfortunately most of the time it takes many
attempts to stop it from accidentally trying to download the
entire internet, but the web is just not well suited to that
a lot of the time (alternatives like HTTTrack are more capable
but less convenient). When you have a plain server-generated
directory list it works very well.

The "--spider" option is great for checking the size of download
links before deciding if/where to download them.

I also just set up a system using "wget --post-file=" to submit
logs to a Bash CGI script on a web server which sorts and stores
them. Should be more reliable than using scp and running into all
the endless incompatibility pain you get with anything SSH these
days (Dropbear doesn't even support SFTP which OpenSSH calls 'scp'
too now).

But nowhere in the docs do I find mention that it can take advantage
of multiple simultaneous connections to speed up a download.

True it doesn't do that. It will reuse the same connection to fetch
multiple files from the same server sequentially though.

In the standard Debian repo, I see a separate package called "aria2",
that does indeed advertise the ability to use multiple simultaneous connections to speed up downloads <https://aria2.github.io/>.

I've used "lftp" for that in the past, but I don't need it often.

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Lawrence D'Oliveiro <[email protected]d> wrote at 00:33 this Thursday (GMT):

Jack Wallen’s enthusiasm, I think, exceeds his grasp on facts, again
<https://www.zdnet.com/article/heres-a-faster-way-to-download-files-on-linux-without-a-web-browser/>.

Yes, wget is a convenient way to download large items, and lots of
items: give it a list of URLs, and it will go away and do them all,
quietly, in the background. It has lots of options for controlling its automatic retry-on-failure feature, too.

But nowhere in the docs do I find mention that it can take advantage
of multiple simultaneous connections to speed up a download.

In the standard Debian repo, I see a separate package called “aria2”, that does indeed advertise the ability to use multiple simultaneous connections to speed up downloads <https://aria2.github.io/>.

aria2 is very useful, and I have it aliased over wget.
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On 13 Jun 2025 09:03:46 +1000, Computer Nerd Kev wrote:

Lawrence D'Oliveiro <[email protected]d> wrote:

Jack Wallen's enthusiasm, I think, exceeds his grasp on facts, again
<https://www.zdnet.com/article/heres-a-faster-way-to-download-files-on-linux-without-a-web-browser/>.

One wonders why you keep reading [him].

He has more patience for trying different Linux distros than I do.

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Lawrence D'Oliveiro <[email protected]d> wrote:

Jack Wallen?s enthusiasm, I think, exceeds his grasp on facts, again <https://www.zdnet.com/article/heres-a-faster-way-to-download-files-on-linux-without-a-web-browser/>.

Yes, wget is a convenient way to download large items, and lots of
items: give it a list of URLs, and it will go away and do them all,
quietly, in the background. It has lots of options for controlling its automatic retry-on-failure feature, too.

But nowhere in the docs do I find mention that it can take advantage
of multiple simultaneous connections to speed up a download.

In the standard Debian repo, I see a separate package called ?aria2?,
that does indeed advertise the ability to use multiple simultaneous connections to speed up downloads <https://aria2.github.io/>.

Original wget or wget2?
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Ant <[email protected]> wrote at 01:18 this Sunday (GMT):

Lawrence D'Oliveiro <[email protected]d> wrote:

Jack Wallen?s enthusiasm, I think, exceeds his grasp on facts, again
<https://www.zdnet.com/article/heres-a-faster-way-to-download-files-on-linux-without-a-web-browser/>.

Yes, wget is a convenient way to download large items, and lots of
items: give it a list of URLs, and it will go away and do them all,
quietly, in the background. It has lots of options for controlling its
automatic retry-on-failure feature, too.

But nowhere in the docs do I find mention that it can take advantage
of multiple simultaneous connections to speed up a download.

In the standard Debian repo, I see a separate package called ?aria2?,
that does indeed advertise the ability to use multiple simultaneous
connections to speed up downloads <https://aria2.github.io/>.

Original wget or wget2?

There's a sequel?
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