[Fast Downloads Using Aria2c] Here's a CLI one-liner for downloading files at much faster rates than `wget`. #linux

fast-downloads-using-aria2c.md

🚀 Fast File Downloads with aria2c

✅ Use this whenever you need to download large files quickly from a server that supports segmented downloads.

aria2c is a lightweight, multi-protocol, multi-source command-line download utility.
Unlike wget or curl (which typically use a single connection), aria2c can split a file into multiple segments and download them in parallel. This often results in much faster downloads if the server supports range requests.

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🔧 Common Flags

• -x <N> : Maximum number of connections per server (default: 1)
• -s <N> : Number of segments to split the file into (default: 5)
• -c : Continue downloading a partially downloaded file

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💡 Example: High-Speed Download

Download a large file using 16 parallel connections and 16 segments:

aria2c -x 16 -s 16 https://example.com/largefile.zip

This command maximizes throughput by splitting the file into 16 chunks and downloading them all at once.

📦 Installation

macOS (Homebrew)

brew install aria2

Ubuntu/Debian

sudo apt update && sudo apt install aria2 -y

Fedora

sudo dnf install aria2 -y