axel
is a command-line utility, similar to curl
and wget
. In fact, axel
can be substituted for wget
for the most part, sans the additional options it provides (and vice-versa).
It can be installed on OS X through homebrew
.
brew install axel
An anecdotal example seen in the screenshots below. axel
downloads a 11.38 GB
file at a rate of 56.46 MB/sec
, compared to 27.3 MB/sec
with wget
. Of course, depending on numerous different factors, there may be little difference between the comparative download speeds, or even the opposite pattern.
It certainly does not hurt to have both tools in your toolkit! See also details of package axel on debian.org.