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A light Unix download acceleratorAxel does the same thing any other accelerator does: it opens more than one HTTP/FTP connection per download and each connection transfers its own, separate, part of the file. It may sound weird, but it works very well in practice.
Version: 2.17.14 License: (GPL-2+ or OpenSSLException)
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| Maintainers | i0ntempest |
| Categories | net www |
| Homepage | https://github.com/axel-download-accelerator/axel |
| Platforms | darwin |
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