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diff --git a/network/axel/README b/network/axel/README index e3133b8dd2..a1f6e0a8e7 100644 --- a/network/axel/README +++ b/network/axel/README @@ -1,4 +1,7 @@ -Axel tries to accelerate HTTP/FTP downloading process by using multiple +Axel accelerates the HTTP/FTP downloading process by using multiple connections for one file. It can use multiple mirrors for a download. Axel has no dependencies and is lightweight, so it might be useful as a wget -clone on byte-critical systems. +clone on byte-critical systems. Axel is the perfect utility for those +connections to wherever you are downloading from that may have a limit +on ftp stream speeds, http sessions that burst and slow down, or servers +with a slow connection. |