Try the --limit-rate and --wait command line options to rein in the voraciousness of the download request. You can also use the -U option to pretend you are a b

Try the --limit-rate and --wait command line options to rein in the voraciousness of the download request. You can also use the -U option to pretend you are a browser. So the command becomes something like: wget -r --limit-rate=20K --wait=20 -U 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070802 FireFox/3.5.4' http://geocities.com/tablizer