diff --git a/aiserver.py b/aiserver.py
index a289409c..74adef38 100644
--- a/aiserver.py
+++ b/aiserver.py
@@ -16,6 +16,9 @@ os.environ['EVENTLET_THREADPOOL_SIZE'] = '1'
 os.environ['TOKENIZERS_PARALLELISM'] = 'false'
 from eventlet import tpool
 
+import logging
+logging.getLogger("urllib3").setLevel(logging.ERROR)
+
 from os import path, getcwd
 import time
 import re
@@ -808,6 +811,7 @@ parser.add_argument("--ngrok", action='store_true', help="Optimizes KoboldAI for
 parser.add_argument("--localtunnel", action='store_true', help="Optimizes KoboldAI for Remote Play using Localtunnel")
 parser.add_argument("--host", action='store_true', help="Optimizes KoboldAI for Remote Play without using a proxy service")
 parser.add_argument("--port", type=int, help="Specify the port on which the application will be joinable")
+parser.add_argument("--aria2_port", type=int, help="Specify the port on which aria2's RPC interface will be open if aria2 is installed (defaults to 6799)")
 parser.add_argument("--model", help="Specify the Model Type to skip the Menu")
 parser.add_argument("--path", help="Specify the Path for local models (For model NeoCustom or GPT2Custom)")
 parser.add_argument("--revision", help="Specify the model revision for huggingface models (can be a git branch/tag name or a git commit hash)")
@@ -867,6 +871,8 @@ if args.cpu:
 vars.smandelete = vars.host == args.override_delete
 vars.smanrename = vars.host == args.override_rename
 
+vars.aria2_port = args.aria2_port or 6799
+
 # Select a model to run
 if args.model:
     print("Welcome to KoboldAI!\nYou have selected the following Model:", vars.model)
diff --git a/utils.py b/utils.py
index be064855..9565eaa4 100644
--- a/utils.py
+++ b/utils.py
@@ -5,6 +5,9 @@ import json
 import subprocess
 import tempfile
 import requests
+import requests.adapters
+import time
+from tqdm.auto import tqdm
 import os
 from typing import Optional
 
@@ -202,6 +205,7 @@ def aria2_hook(pretrained_model_name_or_path: str, force_download=False, cache_d
         if not urls:
             return
     etags = [h.get("X-Linked-Etag") or h.get("ETag") for u in urls for h in [requests.head(u, headers=headers, allow_redirects=False, proxies=proxies, timeout=10).headers]]
+    headers = [requests.head(u, headers=headers, allow_redirects=True, proxies=proxies, timeout=10).headers for u in urls]
     filenames = [transformers.file_utils.url_to_filename(u, t) for u, t in zip(urls, etags)]
     for n in filenames:
         path = os.path.join(_cache_dir, "kai-tempfile." + n + ".aria2")
@@ -217,18 +221,49 @@ def aria2_hook(pretrained_model_name_or_path: str, force_download=False, cache_d
             path = os.path.join(_cache_dir, n)
             if os.path.exists(path):
                 os.remove(path)
+    total_length = sum(int(h["Content-Length"]) for h in headers)
+    lengths = {}
     aria2_config = "\n".join(f"{u}\n  out=kai-tempfile.{n}" for u, n in zip(urls, filenames)).encode()
-    with tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile("w+b", delete=False) as f:
-        f.write(aria2_config)
-        f.flush()
-        p = subprocess.Popen(["aria2c", "-x", "10", "-s", "10", "-j", "10", "--disable-ipv6", "--file-allocation=trunc", "--allow-overwrite", "--auto-file-renaming", "false", "-d", _cache_dir, "-i", f.name, "-U", transformers.file_utils.http_user_agent(user_agent)] + (["-c"] if not force_download else []) + ([f"--header='Authorization: Bearer {token}'"] if use_auth_token else []), stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.STDOUT)
-        for line in p.stdout:
-            print(line.decode(), end="", flush=True)
-        path = f.name
+    s = requests.Session()
+    s.mount("http://", requests.adapters.HTTPAdapter(max_retries=requests.adapters.Retry(total=120, backoff_factor=1)))
+    bar = None
+    secret = os.urandom(17).hex()
     try:
-        os.remove(path)
-    except OSError:
-        pass
+        with tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile("w+b", delete=False) as f:
+            f.write(aria2_config)
+            f.flush()
+            p = subprocess.Popen(["aria2c", "-x", "10", "-s", "10", "-j", "10", "--enable-rpc=true", f"--rpc-secret={secret}", "--rpc-listen-port", str(vars.aria2_port), "--disable-ipv6", "--file-allocation=trunc", "--allow-overwrite", "--auto-file-renaming=false", "-d", _cache_dir, "-i", f.name, "-U", transformers.file_utils.http_user_agent(user_agent)] + (["-c"] if not force_download else []) + ([f"--header='Authorization: Bearer {token}'"] if use_auth_token else []), stdout=subprocess.DEVNULL, stderr=subprocess.DEVNULL)
+            while p.poll() is None:
+                r = s.post(f"http://localhost:{vars.aria2_port}/jsonrpc", json={"jsonrpc": "2.0", "id": "kai", "method": "aria2.tellActive", "params": [f"token:{secret}"]}).json()["result"]
+                if not r:
+                    s.close()
+                    if bar is not None:
+                        bar.n = bar.total
+                        bar.close()
+                    p.terminate()
+                    break
+                if bar is None:
+                    bar = tqdm(total=total_length, desc=f"[aria2] Downloading model", unit="B", unit_scale=True, unit_divisor=1000)
+                visited = set()
+                for x in r:
+                    filename = x["files"][0]["path"]
+                    lengths[filename] = (int(x["completedLength"]), int(x["totalLength"]))
+                    visited.add(filename)
+                for k, v in lengths.items():
+                    if k not in visited:
+                        lengths[k] = (v[1], v[1])
+                bar.n = sum(v[0] for v in lengths.values())
+                bar.update()
+                time.sleep(0.1)
+            path = f.name
+    except Exception as e:
+        p.terminate()
+        raise e
+    finally:
+        try:
+            os.remove(path)
+        except OSError:
+            pass
     code = p.wait()
     if code:
         raise OSError(f"aria2 exited with exit code {code}")