[headbirth]

Just ran across this and built a copy for X (http://wilmer.gaast.net/main.php/axel.html). Has anyone else used it before? Any comments on it's speed compared to wget? any other CLI tools for download acceleration?

I just gave it a try and works fine. I'll have to try some compariosons on my dial-up connection.

[proton]

Download accelerators are generally an extremely bad idea. On a dialup connection they will make no difference, any server will easily flood your 7kb/s maximum download speed (if they can't for some reason, additional connections are very unlikely to make any difference).

Download accelerators basically abuse the server that you're downloading from, if it's a free server (as most are) it's pretty rude to the server operator who is providing the service for free. And if it's a paid service, chances are it's against the terms of service you agreed to.

- proton

[headbirth]

Thanks for the info!