Download accelerator for Ubuntu GNU/Linux Shell

You might have used may number of Download accelerators in your Windows desktop. Have you ever used a console based DL Accelerator? This is a brief introduction to a simple, light weight yet powerful DL Accelerator that you can use in any GNU/Linux distribution like Ubuntu. It’s call Axel. You can download files from FTP or HTTP servers through multiple connections, where each connection download a part of the file and Axel will save the file in the selected destination. Since this is a non-GUI program, it saves system resources and performs fast.

$ axel http://www.website.com/yourdownloadfile.zip

You can limit the out put one line by specifying the option -a with axel command.

Some options you can use with axel to control your download.

Format: $ axel –[Options] [download file]

–max-speed=x, -s x
You  can  specify  a speed (bytes per second) here and Axel will try to keep the average speed around this speed. Useful  if  you
don’t want the program to suck up all of your bandwidth.

–num-connections=x, -n x
You can specify an alternative number of connections here.

–alternate, -a
This  will  show an alternate progress indicator. A bar displays the progress and status of the  different  threads,  along  with
current speed and an estimate for the remaining download time.

You can use this program in your shell scripts and run remotely in any computer. You don’t need to have a Remote Desktop facility, you can connect to any Unix, GNU/Linux Computer via SSH and perform downloads in command shell. And this is a very handy tool when your computer resources are very low.

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