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If nobody's tried it, axel mentioned in the report as possibly abandoned has the awesome feature of splitting a download in to parts and then establishing that many concurrent TCP connections. Very useful on individual TCP flow rate-limited networks.

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Axel is great, but nowadays I reach for aria2 instead, which can do the same, but also supports bittorrent and (s)ftp.

Haven't found anything better than axel to saturate the link yet.

Try saldl[1]. It depends on libcurl. So protocol support should be good and reliable.

[1] https://github.com/saldl/saldl

https://github.com/saldl/saldl/wiki/saldl_vs._aria2

FWIW, this page is incomplete and outdated.

For example, `--mirror-url` was implemented. So, it is now possible to download from two sources concurrently.

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