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From: candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
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Subject: Re: wget Uses Multiple Connections??
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2025 05:30:05 -0000 (UTC)
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Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> wrote at 01:18 this Sunday (GMT):
> Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> 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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