Download file with multiple simultaneous connections

aria2c -s 4 http://my/url
`aria2c` (from the aria2 project) allows. Change -s 4 to an arbitrary number of segments to control the number of concurrent connections. It is also possible to provide multiple URLs to the same content (potentially over multiple protocols) to download the file concurrently from multiple hosts.

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By: jrk
2009-08-11 22:34:00
http ftp performance download aria2 bittorrent
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isn't this considered rather bad netiquette?
thebillywayne · 860 weeks and 5 days ago
You may encounter the certificate verification error with HTTPS server.
hemanth · 860 weeks and 5 days ago
It was just as bad when "puf" did it, 5+ years ago :-)
eichin · 860 weeks and 4 days ago
firefox extension downthemall does this - why is it considered bad?
stuntkiwi · 805 weeks and 5 days ago

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