some more

        curl -m 1800 -Y 3000 -y 60 www.far-away-site.com

  Forcing curl not to transfer data faster than a given rate is also possible,

  which might be useful if you're using a limited bandwidth connection and you

  don't want your transfer to use all of it.

  Make curl transfer data no faster than 10 kilobytes per second:

        curl --limit-rate 10K www.far-away-site.com

    or

        curl --limit-rate 10240 www.far-away-site.com

  Or prevent curl from uploading data faster than 1 megabyte per second:

        curl -T upload --limit-rate 1M ftp://uploadshereplease.com

CONFIG FILE

  Curl automatically tries to read the .curlrc file (or _curlrc file on win32

  Many older SSL-servers have problems with SSLv3 or TLS, that newer versions

  of OpenSSL etc is using, therefore it is sometimes useful to specify what

  SSL-version curl should use. Use -3 or -2 to specify that exact SSL version

  to use:

  SSL-version curl should use. Use -3, -2 or -1 to specify that exact SSL

  version to use (for SSLv3, SSLv2 or TLSv1 respectively):

        curl -2 https://secure.site.com/