Axel - Download from multiple sources

Submitted by Markus Thielmann on Sun, 2009-03-01

There are quite a few "Download Managers" available on Ubuntu. Some of them support a technique called "multipart download", which essentially opens multiple connections to one source and thus speed-up downloads.

Since I consider this quite obtrusive (at least if the manager opens more than four connections to one web server), I was searching for a way to download a file from multiple sources ("mirrors") simultaneously.

I found Axel (apt-get), which is essentially a simple shell application, which accepts multiple URL as parameters.

markus@thielmann:~$ axel http://example.com/file.iso http://mirror.example.com/get.iso http://mirror2.example.com/download.iso

Please notice that axel does not check if all files are identical. So it might be a good idea to check md5 sums if available.

I'd love to see a Firefox plugin for axel, which would allow to add more mirrors to certain download.

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