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2c: Copyright (C) Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
3SPDX-License-Identifier: curl
4Long: speed-limit
5Short: Y
6Arg: <speed>
7Help: Stop transfers slower than this
8Category: connection
9Added: 4.7
10Multi: single
11See-also:
12  - speed-time
13  - limit-rate
14  - max-time
15Example:
16  - --speed-limit 300 --speed-time 10 $URL
17---
18
19# `--speed-limit`
20
21If a transfer is slower than this set speed (in bytes per second) for a given
22number of seconds, it gets aborted. The time period is set with --speed-time
23and is 30 seconds by default.
24