There was many thread and patches regarding this, so I am starting another! So far there are two (maybe three) things people want options for to do with the downloader. I see most of these options being set in pacman.conf and rarely specified on the command line. Argue with me if I am wrong here... Based on that assumption, here are my preferred option names (for both pacman.conf and the command line): 1) Disable low speed timeout DisableDownloadTimeout --disable-download-timeout I see no need to separate out speed and time timeouts. 2) Set maximum download speed MaxDownloadSpeed --max-download-speed I would also accept replacing speed with limit. 3) (in a glorious future) Set maximum concurrent downloads MaxConcurrentDownloads --max-concurrent-downloads Any argument about these option names will need to be very clearly justified. I don't own a bike so have no need for a bikeshed. Allan