Comments on: Linux ultra fast command line download accelerator

By: abdelouahab

abdelouahab — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 08:22:26 +0000

@rafi : use apt-get install axel
dont try to use the GUI interface, it dont work here (ubuntu 11.10) use the command line:
(look here) http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/gutsy/man1/axel.1.html
it really impressed me how it’s fast, i’ve unistalled it the first time i’ve used it because it dident show me anything! the console opened in black! but i’ve reinstalled it and used it directly from the bash using the command line “alex” (without quotes) and it worked :D

By: Kenneth Endfinger

Kenneth Endfinger — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 20:07:23 +0000

lftp is alot faster for me. I love it!

By: rafi

rafi — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 16:19:20 +0000

Sorry i am unable to install axel.Plz can any one help me?

By: Dinesh

Dinesh — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 15:14:14 +0000

Thats pretty amazing. Can download files at a speed more than my max download limit.

By: Arvind

Arvind — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 02:33:11 +0000

I tried axel — for me it works thrice as fast as wget. (I tried wget and axel on different huge files and measured the speed difference so the transparent proxy issue is not there.)

This is ideal for someone who wants to download a huge file onto some remote Unix computer in the cloud. (1) Cannot fire-up mozilla on the remote computer even using ssh -X (painfully slow). (2) Cannot download huge file on to local lap-top and then re-up-load to remote compute in the cloud (idiotic).

Therefore — go go go axel ! Love it!

I haven’t tried aria and the other softwares mentioned here but they may well be just as good.

By: adibaskom

adibaskom — Sat, 02 Jul 2011 09:47:21 +0000

do this
$./configure
$make
#make install
enjoy

By: Neigyl Noval

Neigyl Noval — Wed, 25 May 2011 16:13:32 +0000

Hi. I’m using axel to download a 4 GB software. When it downloaded 98%, it suddenly gives “write error”. I tried it again, but it still gives write error. It says.

File size: 4314152960 bytes
Opening output file Xilinx_ISE_DS_Lin_13.1_O.40d.1.1.tar
State file found: 4251837514 bytes downloaded, 62315446 to go.
Starting download

,,,,,,,,,, ,,,,,,,,,, ,,,,,,,,,, ,,,,,….. …..
Write error!

Downloaded 10.7 kilobytes in 0 seconds. (24.90 KB/s)

I still have more than 30 GB space and the partition is ext3.

How to fix this? Thanks.

By: weman

weman — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 16:32:29 +0000

this doesnt make sense

By: Raam

Raam — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 23:07:51 +0000

Thanks a lot . I also though wget is the ultimate downloader but axel is so much faster out the box. This really improved my life :D

By: Paul Ward

Paul Ward — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 22:54:33 +0000

Just tried wget on a file from a friends box in the UK to my server in NZ and was getting a total download time of 8 hours +
Switched to my windows server and used firefox with downloadthemall and was getting 4 streams down and total download time est around 5 hours.
Installed axel and tried however I was getting proxy issues and being requested for my domain and user + password, this is a pain as I had my http_proxy already exported but it did not use it.
Then tried aria2 and amazing at this time it is sayinfg 2 hours 30 mins that blows all the above away and my windows firefox to boot.
Yet to see if the file md5sums match and if the download time is real and not an extimate but it’s looking good for now especally as from the remote box I am lucky to get anywher near 50k usually around 30k :)
[ SIZE:19.7MiB/538.8MiB(3%) CN:5 SPD:58.2KiBs ETA:2h31m59s]]

By: Long

Long — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 12:10:25 +0000

A nice one to try for linux would be SKDownloader. It is a download accelerator having an excellent gui with themes support (not sure how many would be using it though :) ). It is fully free and unlike other download accelerators, it allows you to choose the number of simultaneous connections you can make and it is not limited to 3 or 4 which is the case with most others. Their link is
Link

By: ind daz

ind daz — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 03:58:30 +0000

hii..
I’m in a this type of situation,I dont know how to go further.um working on Fedora 9.looking for ur help,, thnxzz!!!

./configure
The strip option is enabled. This should not be a problem usually, but on some
systems it breaks stuff.

Configuration done:
Internationalization disabled.
Debugging disabled.
Binary stripping enabled.
[root@localhost axel-1.0b]# make install
mkdir -p /usr/local/bin/
cp axel /usr/local/bin/axel
cp: cannot stat `axel’: No such file or directory
make: *** [install-bin] Error 1

By: ayip.eiger

ayip.eiger — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 09:36:15 +0000

Where i find axel downloaded files?

By: Xster

Xster — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 01:31:20 +0000

Do agree that Axel’s printouts are a bit wild. But its in a visor on mac so doesn’t bother me

By: gaous afrizal

gaous afrizal — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 05:25:47 +0000

hahaha,,, i think it’s just only taste :D
some people think aria2 is better, lftp, axel .It ‘s your choice to use it. remember, network has bursty traffik :D

By: Rupesh Mishra

Rupesh Mishra — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 14:50:22 +0000

Try the latest axel-2.4, the limit of 2Gb file is no more.

By: Jimmy Dean

Jimmy Dean — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 03:34:14 +0000

I was just downloading a file over FTP through wget… their server slowed me down to 300KB/s, I used this program and set the connections to 5 and I am getting 1670.6KB/s works for me…

By: hemanth.hm

hemanth.hm — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 20:05:25 +0000

No matter what tools we use, we can’t beat the ISP load balance and increase our download speeds.

By: Olo

Olo — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 13:21:01 +0000

Axel was working good but it has an 2gb file limit. I can see that aria2 can resume downloads, so that is my choice for now. The speeds are comperable.

By: Soliman Alqubati

Soliman Alqubati — Mon, 18 May 2009 19:37:34 +0000

I want the source code for some Linux comands