diff --git a/src/cdn/downloadWithCurl.ts b/src/cdn/downloadWithCurl.ts
index 22d42f5..0d9dc6b 100644
--- a/src/cdn/downloadWithCurl.ts
+++ b/src/cdn/downloadWithCurl.ts
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ export default function downloadWithCurl({ host, path, tempFileName }: {host: st
     const parameters: string[] = [
       //...
       '--silent',
-      '--limit-rate', '30m', //maximum speed of 30 MB/s = 240 MBit/s
+      '--limit-rate', '20m', //maximum speed of 30 MB/s = 240 MBit/s
       '--speed-limit', String(Math.round(100 * 1024 * 1024 / 15)), //abort if less than 100 MB in 15 seconds
       '--speed-time', '15',
       '--output', tempFileName,
diff --git a/src/ssn/getPatch.ts b/src/ssn/getPatch.ts
index 4e210d7..2be23d2 100644
--- a/src/ssn/getPatch.ts
+++ b/src/ssn/getPatch.ts
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ export default async function getPatch({ product, from, to, sourceDirectory, tar
 
   //Then we need to wait for disks to finish download before we can extract individual files
   //TODO: we can optimize this to already extract some files as soon as their relevant parts are downloaded
-  const diskFilenames: string[] = await taskManager(diskFiles, 3); //max. of 3 concurrent downloads
+  const diskFilenames: string[] = await taskManager(diskFiles, 2); //max. of 2 concurrent downloads
 
   //TODO: Verify that downloaded files match the hash in `solidpkg.pieces`