Download from all the sources at once

aria2 is one of those old tools that has been around forever but you forget about it. It will download one file from many sources at once, saturating your download enabling you to take full advantage of whatever connection you are paying for. Of note, this sort of behavior is likely to give all other users in your house issues while you are consuming the entire connection bandwidth. But if you’re paying for the connection, why wait around on ISOz to DL? Well I fired it up again to fight this awful century unlink connection, there are many useful examples on their homepage but let me give you a quick one that is missing from that list that names the output file (useful for those messy links from sourceforge), so as an example to download debian kde 8.3 for amd64

aria2c -x2 -o debian-8.3.0-amd64-kde-CD-1.iso  http://ftp.riken.jp/Linux/debian/debian-cd/8.3.0/amd64/iso-cd/debian-8.3.0-amd64-kde-CD-1.iso http://mirror.steadfast.net/debian-cd/8.3.0/amd64/iso-cd/debian-8.3.0-amd64-kde-CD-1.iso http://mirrors.ocf.berkeley.edu/debian-cd/8.3.0/amd64/iso-cd/debian-8.3.0-amd64-kde-CD-1.iso http://mirrors.bloomu.edu/debian-cd/8.3.0/amd64/iso-cd/debian-8.3.0-amd64-kde-CD-1.iso http://mirrors.advancedhosters.com/debian-cd/8.3.0/amd64/iso-cd/debian-8.3.0-amd64-kde-CD-1.iso 

Note the related projects and UI frontends associated with this project, especially powerpill

Related Projects

• apt-metalink: Faster package downloads for Debian/Ubuntu
• powerpill: Pacman wrapper for parallel and segmented downloads.
• python3-aria2jsonrpc: A wrapper class around Aria2’s JSON RPC interface.

UI Frontends

• webui-aria2: Web browser interface for aria2 (2012 GSOC project)
• uGet: the Linux Download Manager