Quote Originally Posted by soft2050 View Post
And what makes you think that it will increase the speed? The base is still curl! If you are really looking to increase the speed in rl, then embed the downloading through other programming languages that can help in faster progressing and downloading

Not to mention that the downloading page will lag as usual even with curl since curl progress also outputs the data over page on change!
It will increase the performance, to prove my point here's a screenshot I made while testing a 1GB file download with jokerhacker's script. I only got 33MB/s with a normal WGET while I had speeds of over 100MB/s using CurlAxel.