[Solved] How do I activate aria2?

[d3Xt3r]

Hi all,

Are there any instructions on how to use aria2 instead of wget? I'm getting extremely slow download speeds with wget (5KB/s).

I can see this bit of code in DownloadUpdates.cmd:

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if exist custom\SetAria2EnvVars.cmd (
  call ActivateAria2Downloads.cmd /reload
  call custom\SetAria2EnvVars.cmd
)

So it looks like I need that file to activate ariea2. However, I do not have the "SetAria2EnvVars.cmd" file in my custom folder. Any ideas where can I get this?

Thanks!

[Dalai]

Run wsusoffline\cmd\ActivateAria2Downloads.cmd

Regards
Dalai

[d3Xt3r]

Thanks, but it's still very slow downloading the initial support files. Looks like aria2 doesn't do segmented downloading for files < 1MB.

[Dalai]

Well, it's obvious that you have some kind of issue with your internet and/or internal network connection (e.g. lost packets, connection drops, blocking/filtering firewall). If you solve that, it doesn't matter which download manager is used, and whether or not it supports segmented downloads.

Regards
Dalai

[d3Xt3r]

It seems like an issue with console-based downloads, both wget and aria2 are slow. I've been able to download the support files from Firefox without any issues however. Both the console and Firefox are pointing to the same proxy server, so not sure why there's a difference in speeds.

Anyway I've managed to manually download the support files and now the script is progressing and now downloading the actual updates, unfortunately even with 10 segments it's still very very slow and keeps timing out.

Is there a way for WSUSOffline to simply generate a list of URLs? I can download these thru a separate download manager and copy them to the wsusoffline folder. At the moment I'm manually copy-pasting each URL from the console, downloading it via my browser and restarting WSUSOffline, which is a very time consuming process.

[d3Xt3r]

SOLVED!

I managed to solve it by manually setting the proxy server in the GUI - downloads are now going at full speed!

Thanks for your assistance.