The above 'wget' command puts the ISO into the directory you are currently in and uses all your bandwidth.
I don't like it when downloading a file uses ALL my bandwidth and I have to sit around twiddling my thumbs. These are multitasking machines so I decided to start multitasking online while "wget" is "web-getting" a file.
I have a 3MB connection and my max down-speed is ±380K
So this is what I did, I created a couple of bash aliases:
## limit wget to 200K
alias wg2='wget --limit-rate=200k'
## limit wget to 100K
alias wg1='wget --limit-rate=100k'
Let's use the latest VSIDO ISO md5sum file as an example:
1. I open SpaceFM and cruise over to: /media/5/VSIDO_ISO
- > right click on the folder window
- > New
- > Folder
- > type in: 2013-02-04
- > Enter
- > Enter and the bar at the top now reads:
/media/5/VSIDO_ISO/2013-02-04
2. Copy that (no pasting yet jedi see #3)
3. Open a terminal and type 'cd' and paste that line in there, hit enter:
sector11 @ sector11
04 Feb 13 | 12:49:58 ~
$ cd /media/5/VSIDO_ISO/2013-02-04
sector11 @ sector11
04 Feb 13 | 12:50:12 /media/5/VSIDO_ISO/2013-02-04
$
4. Now on the VSIDO download page, right click on the link you want and select:
- Copy Link Location.
5. Back to the terminal and type in wg1 (I clicked on md5sum) and paste in the link, Enter:
sector11 @ sector11
04 Feb 13 | 13:22:23 ~
$ cd /media/5/VSIDO_ISO/2013-02-04
sector11 @ sector11
04 Feb 13 | 13:22:34 /media/5/VSIDO_ISO/2013-02-04
$ wg1 http://vsido.org/debian/vsido_v1-2_3.7-1_Kernel.iso.md5
--2013-02-04 13:22:50-- http://vsido.org/debian/vsido_v1-2_3.7-1_Kernel.iso.md5
Resolving vsido.org (vsido.org)... 46.30.211.55
Connecting to vsido.org (vsido.org)|46.30.211.55|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... Read error (Connection reset by peer) in headers.
Retrying.
--2013-02-04 13:23:01-- (try: 2) http://vsido.org/debian/vsido_v1-2_3.7-1_Kernel.iso.md5
Connecting to vsido.org (vsido.org)|46.30.211.55|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... Read error (Connection reset by peer) in headers.
Retrying.
--2013-02-04 13:23:11-- (try: 3) http://vsido.org/debian/vsido_v1-2_3.7-1_Kernel.iso.md5
Connecting to vsido.org (vsido.org)|46.30.211.55|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... Read error (Connection reset by peer) in headers.
Retrying.
--2013-02-04 13:23:21-- (try: 4) http://vsido.org/debian/vsido_v1-2_3.7-1_Kernel.iso.md5
Connecting to vsido.org (vsido.org)|46.30.211.55|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 62 [application/x-iso9660-image]
Saving to: ‘vsido_v1-2_3.7-1_Kernel.iso.md5’
100%[======================================>] 62 --.-K/s in 0s
2013-02-04 13:23:27 (7.21 MB/s) - ‘vsido_v1-2_3.7-1_Kernel.iso.md5’ saved [62/62]
sector11 @ sector11
04 Feb 13 | 13:23:27 /media/5/VSIDO_ISO/2013-02-04
$
And there it is:
/media/5/VSIDO_ISO/2013-02-04/vsido_v1-2_3.7-1_Kernel.iso.md5
That reads:
9626c4fa5914b06f8565d24365f6fc25 vsido_v1-2_3.7-1_Kernel.iso
By the way:
- I did this while another terminal is using wg2 to get the ISO, and
- I collected email twice