xdissent/ievms — Issue #56: Option to use aria2c
Author: rstacruz
Created: 2012-02-08 03:06:43+00:00
State: open

I live in Asia, and downloading from *download.microsoft.com* happens at a dismal 5kb/sec. I used aria2c to download these files manually and I got 345kb/s.

The command I used was:

``` bash
echo http://download.microsoft.com/download/B/7/2/B72085AE-0F04-4C6F-9182-BF1EE90F5273/Windows_7_IE9.part0{1.exe,2.rar,3.rar,4.rar,5.rar,6.rar,7.rar} | tr ' ' '\n' | aria2c --max-connection-per-server=16 --max-concurrent-downloads=16 --split=16 -i -
```

Perhaps there should be an option to use different downloader than `curl`?