I tried to install a wget bash loop via socks5 proxy server and was surprised to find that wget didn't get proxy server support enabled. First, run your proxy tunnel on port 8080 using Ssh -o "serveraliveinterval 60" -o "serveralivecountmax 3" -f-c -n -d *:8080 user@my.Proxy.Server &> tunnel.Magazine My firefox makes excellent use of this tunnel - there are the following entries on the proxy configuration page: Initially i tried to use wget -execute to install http_proxy using Wget -e "http_proxy = 127.0.0.1:8080" "http://url_to_get" However, it didn't work, giving me the following error. Wget using tsocks The solution was to install tsocks. For gentoo, just do Emerge -av tsocks And change the configuration file. Note that gentoo stores confing information in /etc/socks/tsocks.Conf, while ubuntu stores it in /etc/tsocks.Conf Nano -w /etc/socks/tsocks.Conf If you used a proxy server in earlier versions of wget, remove all proxy server cmds from ~/.Wgetrc Finally run your wget through the socks5 proxy server using tsocks Tsocks wget http://url_to_get Running two tsocks wget at the same time caused my system to slow down and gave the following error: After completing one of the processes, home depot proxy fight - fineproxy i got my cpu back. Do you want to do more? Try tor.