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Another accelerator is Axel [0]. While aria2 supports all kinds of protocols, Axel supports Axel HTTP, HTTPS, FTP and FTPS. Both are excellent and I've used aria2 for a very long time.

[0] https://wilmer.gaa.st/main.php/axel.html

I love axel. Whenever I have issues with video streaming due to the website having per client connection throttling, I extract the media src from the page and do axel -n 32 <url> and saturate my downlink (200mbit+).

Aria2 can't manage recursive downloading. Wget can, but wget does not come with a multithreaded option.

I'm still looking for something that can do both.

I found out about this a week ago, super useful for downloading from multiple very slow mirrors at the same time.