On Tue, 2009-05-12 at 04:52 +0000, Rajagopal Swaminathan wrote: > Rajagopal Swaminathan <raju.rajsand at ...> writes: > > > > > JohnS <jses27 at ...> writes: > > > > I tried switching over to wget but inspite of having 2mbps link which gives us a > download speed of around 200kBytes/sec otherwise, wget manages only > 15-20kBytes/s even after using --limit-rate=150k > > Nothing interesting in the /etc/wgetrc and no ~/.wgetrc either --- May be a server issue. You may want to try another server. If you have a local LAN try to wget a large file for comparing.