• Downloads a file, with a timeout of 40 seconds, resume downloads and use a maximum transfer rate of 20kbytes/second (or 160 kbps):

$ wget -c -t inf -T 40 --limit-rate=20k http://remote.domain/file

• Recursively download all files and folders under http://remote.domain/directory:

$ wget -e robots=off -r --no-parent --reject "index.html*" http://remote.domain/directory