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That said, "download accelerators" were also clever programs that would create multiple connections with the origin and use Range headers to download different parts of the file.
Wonder why I don't hear of them anymore. Maybe because server upload bandwidth is more often generous enough to saturate your bandwidth these days?
You can do this from the command line with axel: https://github.com/axel-download-accelerator/axel
https://github.com/AltraMayor/f3
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