Google-chrome – WGET downloading extremely slow

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I am using the following command

wget -r -np -k -p http://www.site.com/dir/

To download a small archive of files(there is a couple hundred files so I don't want to click download on each one and put them in the respective folders).

I am getting speeds of around 17kb/s this can't be possible. While I watch wget download the file, I open up google chrome and download the same 10 megabyte file INSTANTLY and watch as wget is still only around 50%…

I went to sleep and left my computer on and it is still downloading and not even a quarter done… any explanation as to why wget downloads 5000 times slower than my internet speed? How can I speed this up? Is there an alternate program to accomplish this? Thank you for your assistance.

Best Answer

Try adding the option:

-4

Also, try to run a speedtest:

wget https://raw.github.com/sivel/speedtest-cli/master/speedtest_cli.py
chmod a+rx speedtest_cli.py
sudo mv speedtest_cli.py /usr/local/bin/speedtest-cli
sudo chown root:root /usr/local/bin/speedtest-cli
speedtest-cli

This will output, among others, your download and upload speed. By the way, are you using wireless or ethernet?

You can also try an alternative to wget, for example HTTrack, aria2, cURL, etc.

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