Axel - an excellent HTTP / FTP high-speed download tool

Axel is an excellent HTTP / FTP high-speed download tool, tries to accelerate HTTP/FTP downloading process by using multiple connections for one file. It can use multiple mirrors for a download. Axel has no dependencies and is lightweight, so it might be useful as a wget clone on byte-critical systems. The offical site is http://axel.alioth.debian.org

Installation

Installing Axel on Debian,Ubuntu...

If you’re on a Debian Based distributions like Ubuntu you can install Axel easily with apt-get .

apt-get install axel

Installing Axel on RedHat,Centos,Fedora...

Axel is not included in Yum repository by default if you don’t have EPEL / Remo so you need to install it from scratch via source code or use RPMs which is faster and more easy.

rpm -ivh http://pkgs.repoforge.org/axel/axel-2.4-1.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm

Installing Axel on Mac

brew install axel

Installing Axel on Windows

Visit https://st0rage.org/~n2j3/?page_id=225717166 to download the Axel for Windows

How to use

Download file:

axel http://cachefly.cachefly.net/200mb.test

Download file and show the detail information

axel -a http://cachefly.cachefly.net/200mb.test

Downloads with max number of connections set to 10

axel -n 10 http://cachefly.cachefly.net/200mb.test

Downloads at 512,000 Bytes/second (500KB/s) and max 10 connections

axel -s 512000 -n 10 http://cachefly.cachefly.net/200mb.test